Maintain relationships with Legal, Finance and IBUs
Operating Network (External)
Strong personal relationships across the outsourcing industry - clients, sourcing advisors, competitors, partners
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Strategic Negotiator Senior Strategic Negotiator
Effectively collaborate with all internal stakeholders to submit best-fit proposal responses, effective management of contracting and MSA activities and extend domain-based inputs to internal stakeholders through whitepapers, talks, training sessions, consultations to achieve the planned goal of win ratio.
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Strategic Negotiator Senior Strategic Negotiator
Expertise in managed technology services, outcome-based pricing, gain sharing, and deal structuring. Minimum 10 years’ experience negotiating IT contracts, pricing and SLAs.
Areas of Responsibility
Opportunity Identification and Qualification
The Strategic Negotiator will work with Leadership to define standards and actively participate in qualification decision process in order to avoid wasted effort on deals unlikely to generate revenue.
Proposal Development
The Strategic Negotiator will work with all concerned groups (Legal, Business, Delivery, Finance, (DAG) in order to submit proposal responses that protect Infosys and are as competitive as possible.
Contracting and MSA
The Strategic Negotiator will effectively explain all Infosys positions to customer independently negotiate all terms and schedules subject only, escalate issues as required, close deals on a timely basis in order to sign off by Legal, Delivery, Finance and Business.
Organization Initiatives
The Strategic Negotiator will extend to organization experienced based understanding of market, methods will include whitepapers, training sessions (e.g. Brown Bag lunches) and consultation with IBUs on an as requested basis, and create appropriate artifacts in order to increase wins on favorable terms.
Knowledge, Skills required for the role
Knowledge: Knowledge of contract terms including SLAs and Pricing
Skills: Strong communication skills - written and oral
Qualifications
Law degree preferred
MBA or any graduate degree from a recognized institution
Performance Measures
Opportunity Identification and Qualification
Manager / unit head assessment
Proposal Development
Win ratio
TCV generated
Contracting and MSA
Win rate
Organization Initiatives
Number of artifacts created
Additional Criteria for Higher Proficiency:
Knowledge: Fully versed in contract law, IT pricing, Service Levels related areas
Skills: Ability to negotiate large IT contracts
Tasks: Mentor junior negotiators, some administrative responsibility