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When you join Verizon
You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.
What You’ll Be Doing...
Our team collaborates with Verizon's largest customers to identify and capitalize on significant opportunities. As the vision leader, you will be instrumental in supporting new business development, exploring emerging opportunities, enhancing industry verticals, and nurturing existing customer accounts. You will empower pursuit teams to formulate and position strategic solutions with customers, articulating a clear vision of how technology can enable our customers to achieve their long-term business objectives. You will play a pivotal role throughout the customer pursuit lifecycle, from initial market presence and customer discussions to deal closure and ongoing in-life leadership. Success in this role requires the ability to identify both customer and internal stakeholders, and effectively influence them to align with the proposed vision. You will strive to become a recognized thought leader in emerging influential technologies, understanding their applications and associated processes/methodologies, and clearly articulating their business benefits. Your expertise will help solve today’s and tomorrow's biggest challenges for our enterprise clients.
Working at the forefront of technology, you’ll be revolutionizing the way people live, work, and play.
Responsibilities Will Include
- Engaging with current and prospective customers to develop solutions ahead of sales agreements.
- Present as a thought leader at industry events and customer briefings, actively supporting the go-to-market strategy.
- Identify, propose, and support on large and complex opportunities.
- Drive innovation through the latest technologies and processes within Verizon and for its customers.
- Serve as a subject matter expert, fostering internal knowledge and capability development.
- Provide strategic vision for RFI/RFP/RFQ responses and bid strategy.
- Develop and agree upon innovation roadmaps for key customer accounts.
What We’re Looking For...
You are experienced in all phases of acquiring large and complex deals, and possess a strong understanding of best practices for driving innovation within large global organizations. You are inherently curious about new technologies, the possibilities they create, and how they can deliver benefit and drive change. You have an excellent understanding of how large businesses work, how they are led and their typical buying process. You are flexible and thrive in dynamic environments that consistently challenges your superior analytical, business, and technology skills.
You’ll Need To Have
- A Bachelor's degree in a STEM related subject, or relevant work experience.
- Experience in pre-sales solution architecture that includes elements of networking and cybersecurity.
- Experience of working on multinational opportunities and with large enterprise customers.
- Experience of leading pre-sales customer meetings.
- Experience with Enterprise Architecture Principles and Practice.
- Willingness to travel (expected to be 25-50% of the time).
- Valid UK Driving Licence.
Even better if you have one or more of the following:
- Excellent communication skills.
- Proven leadership abilities.
- A good understanding of large enterprise sales methodologies.
- Experience in complex multi-tower solutions delivery, ideally involving global end-to-end communications, security, Cloud/Compute, Applications, and Professional Services.
- Knowledge of industry best practices such as TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL, Project Management, and Agile Techniques.
- Strong financial, sales, and business acumen.
If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.
Where you’ll be working
In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Equal Employment Opportunity
Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.
