Business Development Director

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Make an Impact by:

• Formulate strategies and action plans for selected vertical to drive Singtel’s growth areas, such as 5G, Multi-Edge Access (MEC), Software Defined Network (SDN), Quantum etc.,
• Drive new sales and partnership engagements and expand market share.
• Lead a team to work with the various Account Managers (AM) from Government accounts to drive growth product revenue targets and market share, as well as mindshare in the selected vertical.
• Lead, shape and capture mindshare and market share in areas of EAG’s focus, talent acquisition and ecosystem partners.
• Work closely with Government agencies to support selected verticals in terms of grants/ supply of talents into the industry.
• Formulate an ecosystem of partners for selected verticals.
• Formulate a Go-To-Market (GTM) together with selected verticals to approach companies for co-creation/development of used cases and projects.
• Lead new business presentations and proposals, and highly experienced at driving and working with product house, delivery teams, solution specialist team, presales, and account sales teams to foster cross collaboration as well as partnering with 3rd Party Solution Providers and/or partners to drive and execute on the GTM plans.
• Support alignment within SingTel, selected verticals and partners on product strategy and GTM.
• Support internal expansion strategy for Centre of Digital Excellence (CODE) and talent pool within Singtel.

New Business Generation

• Provide leadership for business development with selected verticals to align with Singtel strategies to drive new growth.
• Lead virtual teams across various key internal stakeholders to bring together and explore viable solutions and appropriate response to tender/RFI/RFQ/CFC requirements.
• Working with various internal teams to formulate value propositions and product positioning to create differentiation.
• Execute lead generation activities and promotions to drive awareness and accelerate adoption.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with complementary technology and marketing partners to develop new opportunities, joint business plans and value propositions.
• Contribute to business development and marketing strategies by being a participant in quarterly, annual, and ad hoc planning discussions.

Market Development/Thought Leadership

• Keep abreast of key trends affecting the business – new development in the government sector, progress of commercial enterprises and development in the market environment specific to IHLs.
• Ability to create alignment both internally and externally for win-win for Singtel, IHLs, Govt and partners.
• Must possess a strong intellectual curiosity and desire to understand and solve pain points.
• Possesses strong critical reasoning skills; Able to provide meaningful, well-reasoned critiques and suggestions on the direction of a variety of initiatives.

Skills for Success:

• Degree Marketing, Business, Engineering, or Computer Science with 5 or more years in sales or business development experience.
• At least 10 years of working experience in Telco/ICT industry.
• Experience in working and driving solutions with Partners and Solution Providers.
• ICT / telco knowledge preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (especially Excel, Share-point, Teams, and PowerPoint).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; able to formulate, write and succinctly communicate our value, strategy, and proposed solution on client opportunities.
• Technical and/or operational background with experience managing projects.
• Self-driven, aggressive, and energetic.
• Resourceful and creative.
• Possess strong leadership skills.
• Able to self-motivate and independent.
• Able to communicate and collaborate.
• Able to project strong, positive image of self and Company.
• Able to do strategic planning.
• Meticulous and responsible with strong analytical, organisational, and multi-tasking skills.
• Ability to work well under stressful situations with tight timelines.
• Able to cultivate trust and credibility with peers and maintain strong working relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Customer-oriented personality and good team player, strong work ethic, results-oriented, flexible, patient, and adaptable; persuasive and diplomatic.

Are you ready to say hello to BIG Possibilities?

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