Business Engagement Lead, Sales & Marketing
Are you an ambitious and experienced person with a strong business mind-set? Are
you looking for a job with the possibility to utilize your skills and competences
within designing IT solutions that support Sales and Marketing?
Are you ready to bring your leadership experience into play and head a team of
specialists that partner up with the Vestas business with the aim of bringing the
business IT offerings to the next level?
Then you could be our new lead for the team responsible for Sales & Marketing
offerings within Global IT
Global IT, Sales, Service & eProducts
Global IT is the business area responsible for all IT within Vestas Wind Systems A/S. With
reference to the Group CFO, Global IT covers everything from business engagement and
requirements gathering to project implementations, infrastructure operations and service
integration between vendors and end user support.
From 1st of October Global IT will implement both a new operating model as well as a new
organizational structure. The Sales & Marketing team will belong to the area responsible
for all IT offerings related to Sales, Service & eProducts. The area holds a huge potential
in Vestas and the team will have end to end responsibility regarding Sales & Marketing
offerings and will work closely together with the business in order to maximize the value
from Global IT.
Responsibilities:
Vestas aim of growing faster than the market. As the lead of the sales IT offering team,
you and the team will be leading the implementation of solutions to enable key account
management, value engineering and selling as well as being opportunity originator using
SAP CRM C4C. As a first step you will take lead on implementing SAP CRM C4S for
account planning and driving solution simplification boosting user adoption. Also, you will
take lead on building a roadmap for sales configuration management, pricing and key
account management planning.
You act as an adviser to global sales management in Vestas, taking full responsibility for
delivering to our promises on projects and the operation of our services. You and your
team will be accountable for SAP CRM, sales quotation and sales document management,
driving business value through good user adoption of the offerings across the Vestas
Business.
Your will focus on the continuous development of IT offerings delivered to Sales &
Marketing including ownership of all daily offerings delivered to Sales & Marketing and
actions taken if break-downs occur.
The key responsibilities in short will be to:
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Be the IT counterpart and accountable Sales & Marketing Business stakeholders.
Manage and translate knowledge of business community to IT lingo and demands
and vice versa.
Be accountable for co-strategizing with stakeholders and holder of stakeholder’s
portfolio (including project, change and offering portfolio).
Act as the full lifecycle accountable IT Offerings owner towards the business with
respect to value proposition, ease of use, performance products, new
opportunities/developments and maintainability. The IT Offerings comprises the ‘full
stack’ incl. underlying platforms and integrations.
Qualifications:
Qualifications and work experience:
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Academic degree within Economics & Business Administration, Computer Science
or similar.
5-8 years of relevant work experience in similar position.
Knowledge on key Sales and Marketing processes.
High technical understanding of IT and IT processes.
Experience with methodologies in managing vendors in a multivendor service and
delivery environment .
English language at negotiation level – oral and written.
Excellent understanding of business needs and ability to translate requirements into
IT offerings.
Good financial understanding and IT knowledge.
Competencies:
We expect you to have:
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A self-motivating and result oriented mindset as well as a strong cross functional
understanding.
Strong leadership capabilities.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbally; you sell your ideas
effectively and have the ability to work cooperatively with various stakeholders,
colleagues, and management.
Strong interpersonal skills and highly development-oriented customer mind-set.
Structured, systematic and good understanding of business processes.
Prepared for change.
Motivated by a high pace.
Ability to handle a diversified workload and many task at the same time without
losing focus on the individual task.
What we offer:
Vestas Global IT delivers complex and technological advanced solutions. Despite this
Global IT is also about people – the skilled, determined, and visionary enthusiasts who
perform to provide top-results which are even better than the day before. We give our
employees an optimal framework to thrive and develop both professionally and personally.
All tied together by a common culture that reflects our global mindset, which is
characterized by accountability, collaboration and simplicity - and a unique willingness to
aim for the gold.
We offer an exciting and challenging job with excellent opportunities for professional and
personal development in an inspiring environment at the world’s leading wind turbine
producer. We value initiative, enthusiasm, responsibility and the right balance between
creativity and quality in all solutions.
Additional information:
Primary work location Aarhus, Denmark and some travel must be expected.
WIND. IT MEANS THE WORLD TO US.
By joining Vestas, you join the only global energy company dedicated 100% to wind
energy. Together with our customers, we have installed more than 51.000 turbines in over
70 countries, and we remain committed to increase that number via our superior, costeffective wind technologies, products and services.
Since Vestas was founded in 1979, Vestas has achieved a market-leading position with
more than 60 GW of installed wind turbines or around 19% of total global capacity.
Every day, everyone at Vestas works to make Vestas the undisputed global wind leader
and the world’s energy mix more sustainable – join us, and be part of ensuring a
sustainable future for our planet.
Recruitment process
Experis is the recruitment partner for Vestas for this position. If you would like to apply for
the job, please upload your CV and cover letter in English in one document. For further
information about the position, please call Per Tychsen, Senior Recruitment Advisor on
+45 2243 6104.