Cambridge Consultants

Associate Director, Telecommunications Business Development

Cambridge Consultants  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

Our Europe team is looking for an Associate Director of Business Development with a track record of success in value creation for clients through technology innovation. We are looking for a business development leader with a deep understanding of the European telecommunications industry.

Details

We work on client projects as a team, combining the feel of working in a start-up with the resources and support of a globally successful company. Business Development here is more than just selling. In helping our clients, you will make a difference by being a part of the solution, and you’ll have both the freedom and backing to drive business success.

You will carve out and have responsibility for building a substantial business, delivering significant value to clients in the Telecommunications market. This is an entrepreneurial role which requires a passion for value creation for our clients through the development of innovative, disruptive technologies and products that deliver substantial business impact. Your understanding of such technologies and your commercial business experience will enable you to be trusted by clients and internal teams to guide the creation of valuable propositions and to close deals.

Day to Day

As Associate Director of Business Development within the Telecommunications Business Unit, you will take a leading role in our Telecommunications business. You will be responsible for identifying potential clients, developing trusting client relationships, identifying sales opportunities, and defining strategies to address these, along with key client management and contract negotiations leading to successful sales and outcomes for our clients. You will be encouraged to seek new business opportunities through industry contacts.

What you need to succeed:

  • The successful applicant will be a talented, ambitious, and entrepreneurial individual with a desire to create and lead new business activities

Responsibilities:

  • Developing strong and trusting relationships with senior executives in client and potential client companies
  • Development of a large networks of senior contacts in the region who drive innovation and technology R&D
  • Raising awareness of the value of the professional services that Cambridge Consultants can deliver in the Telecommunications space
  • Identifying and engaging with companies that are potential clients for Cambridge Consultants, actively utilising market information to guide the technical team to inform strategy and internal investments
  • Leading and supporting teams across diverse markets, technologies and expertise areas from across the whole of Cambridge Consultants' R&D staff

Essential skills and experience:

  • Ability to develop new business opportunities with new prospective clients in the Telecommunications and Technologies domains working alongside other business development, project management and technical staff
  • Experience and proven track record of complex, high-value, technical sales / business development
  • Ability to personally close sales through leading negotiations on scope, pricing, deliveries and terms and conditions.
  • Experience of consultative business development to explore clients underlying ambitions and needs and developing cutting edge propositions and solutions
  • 10+ years of professional experience in relevant positions or industries
  • Knowledge of market players, industrial trends and emerging and evolving technologies relevant to the future of high-performance communication including non-terrestrial networks, massive MIMO, AI, 5G, 6G, virtualisation, as well as custom radio solutions
  • Ability to communicate at the client level in meetings and presentations
  • A degree in an appropriate technical domain
  • Located in the UK
Cambridge Consultants

About Cambridge Consultants

We do deep tech, you create the future… we are Cambridge Consultants. We do extraordinary, new-to-the-world deep tech innovation. What is deep tech? It’s a mindset; a bold strategy that harnesses radical science and engineering to achieve things no-one else can. It enables our clients to gain unassailable commercial advantage from defendable technology that they own. Markets are redefined, and the world takes notice.

As the deep tech powerhouse of Capgemini, we’re ready to work with you to create technologies, services and products that have never been seen before. And which will transform business, society and the planet. If your ambition is to shatter the status quo, it’s time to get the future you want – with the power of deep tech.

We are global team of 800 bright, talented people, delivering work across 35 countries from offices in Cambridge (UK) Boston (USA), Singapore and Tokyo. We have more than 140 laboratories and over 200,000 square feet of world-class design and development facilities.

Our people are united by the ambition to turn brilliant, breakthrough ideas into scaled technologies, products and services. Cambridge Consultants is trusted by some of the world’s biggest brands and most ambitious start-ups to achieve their critical technology-based aspirations – and we’ve been doing it for more than 60 years.

Industry
Creative & Design
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Cambridge, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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