UK Travel & Transport (T&T) Account Executive

The job on offer

Capgemini’s Travel and Transport team is expanding and looking for focused sales people to join us in our growth.

Join us an Account Executive and benefit from a leadership team that is known for its supportive & development-focused strategy

Your role

You will be responsible for a portfolio of accounts and developing new opportunities. You will have to build client intimacy, account strategy, sales and manage the operations & performance of the account P&L.

• Reach - CxO intimacy and coverage
• Relevance - Penetration in Cloud & Data + Group/industry portfolio
• Resilience - Progress in market share and annuity business
• Results – Top line growth and improved profitability

As part of the role you will engage pursuit teams and qualify leads as they are identified. The successful candidate will also craft proactive propositions, develop winning sales plans and drive the account performance to support growth. In your background you will have strong client networking skills, building relationships across the accounts stakeholder community. You will be able to demonstrate success in forging strong trust-based relationships and engagement across the breadth of the Capgemini global service lines to hit agreed budgets for sales, revenue, profitability and investment.

You will become a member of the Technology & Services sub-sector market unit, supporting the wider go-to-market strategy and our competitive differentiation in order to support growth plans. You will be expected to lead by example, demonstrate sales acumen, form and be part of effective teams and a clear desire and ambition to be recognised as a high-performer and future leader in our business.

Key for the role will be your sales experience in addition to a degree of knowledge of the Travel and Transportation market, client business drivers and your ability to identify solutions and insights to build credibility. You will develop over time an awareness of the broad set of Capgemini capabilities through strategy, innovation, digital transformation, technology, infrastructure and business process outsourcing. You will not likely be an expert in all of these, but you will be able to leverage your industry knowledge and credibility to bring the power of Capgemini’s expertise to support you in developing client business.

Your profile

You are likely to have experience of selling broadscale technology services with a background in the Travel and Transport market. Specifically, you will bring:

• Strong sales experience including exposure to sizeable deals and complex programmes
• A track record of relationship building with senior client stakeholders
• Industry insights on the role of digital, strategic advisory partners and potential to exploit next generation digital solutions
• Experience of managing a sales targets and planning with discipline in account forecasting and performance reporting
• Ability to innovatively and constructively challenge the status quo to drive forward the business
• Able to operate with a high degree of independence as well as being part of a team
• Experienced in opportunity qualification and bid management disciplines, controls & winning sales plans
• Knowledge of the digital industry, key players, points of differentiations, offers and broad capabilities
• Drive, determination and ambition to lead a high-performing account and team
  

To be successful you’ll bring strong personal skills and the ability to overcome internal barriers through the use of drive, determination and influencing skills. You’ll have a natural ability to work in mixed teams of colleagues and senior executives and possess outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.