Full Job Description
A senior commercial professional accountable for the most significant accounts or opportunities within Klipboard's software solutions portfolio to new-name prospects, and for the commercial standards colleagues work to.
The work spans the highest-value or most complex commercial situations. You are the escalation route when a deal or relationship is at risk, and the person who sets how this is done here. The role carries no people-management accountability.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Own and manage the most significant, complex, and commercially sensitive new business opportunities within the software solutions portfolio, driving successful commercial outcomes.
- Lead high-value and competitive negotiations, ensuring successful deal closure while protecting business value and profitability.
- Develop and implement account planning, opportunity qualification, and forecasting best practices to improve sales effectiveness and commercial performance.
- Act as the primary escalation point for at-risk deals and customer relationships, taking proactive action to mitigate risks and secure positive outcomes.
- Shape and influence commercial strategies, pricing approaches, and contract structures to maximise revenue and business growth.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior customer stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor throughout the sales process.
- Represent Klipboard professionally in customer engagements, negotiations, presentations, and strategic commercial discussions.
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and guidance to colleagues, raising commercial capability and promoting best practices across the sales team.
- Deliver against agreed revenue and commercial targets while maintaining high standards of quality, professionalism, and conduct.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date CRM records, pipeline data, account plans, and sales forecasts to support effective business planning and decision-making.
- Identify, communicate, and manage commercial risks, obstacles, and dependencies to support successful opportunity progression.
- Ensure solutions proposed to customers are aligned with their business needs and deliver long-term value and successful outcomes.
- Set realistic expectations with customers and stakeholders to support successful project delivery and customer satisfaction.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Presales, Delivery, and Support teams to achieve shared business objectives and improve customer outcomes.
- Share market intelligence, customer insights, and commercial expertise to support team development and continuous improvement.
- Promote a culture of accountability, integrity, customer focus, and commercial excellence across the organisation.
- Support additional strategic initiatives, projects, and responsibilities in line with business priorities and the scope of the role.
**Skills, Knowledge and Experience:**
**Required Qualifications and Experience**
- Extensive new business sales experience including high-value and complex situations.
- Track record of leading competitive negotiations to close.
- Experience setting commercial standards adopted by colleagues.
- Strong commercial modelling capability.
- Ability to coach others and raise commercial practice.
**Preferred Qualifications and Experience**
- Experience of new-name business development in software.
- Experience of multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles.
- Experience of enterprise or multi-territory commercial negotiation.
- Experience of commercial recovery on at-risk accounts.
- Klipboard is embracing AI at pace across our products and ways of working. We're looking for people who are curious about how AI can enhance productivity, decision-making and customer outcomes, and who are open to learning and adapting as this space evolves.
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