Director, Business Value Consulting

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Our Splunk Family is a results focused and collaborative bunch spanning functions across sales, customer success, support, marketing and G&A functions. We love to work as a team, celebrate success and learn from our losses. We have a great team culture with weekly team lunches, organisation celebrations, volunteer activities and a culture based on respect, transparency and always doing the right thing

We are excited to appoint a Director, Business Value Consulting, who will be responsible for leading a high performing team and for driving BVC program outcomes for that region. The role reports into the Chief Technical Advisor for APAC.

You are strategically minded and highly adept in working cross functionally. You will work in close alignment with the APAC sales leadership teams to ensure value selling services and methods are leveraged for maximum impact to drive bookings and customer success.

You will drive executive awareness and positioning of Splunk Value Selling methods such that they can be scaled across the Splunk ecosystem and Partner community within APAC.

You will participate in the development and evolution of the Global Business Value Consulting Program including value selling techniques across all market segments for IT Ops, Security, DevOps and Vertical Markets.

**Responsibilities**:

- **Lead the APAC Value Consulting team **to ensure accomplished staff results through planning, goal setting, monitoring, coaching, counselling and developing talent to meet or exceed BVC role expectations
- **Establish yourself and your team as a genuine business partner **to sales leadership, representing the various engagements the program can offer with Economic Buyer pursuit, business value plans, and strategic support of sales and customer interactions, to ensure you adapt to evolving requirements from sales and customers, ultimately leading to opportunity acceleration and expansion
- **Drive strategic thinking and action **within your team to best support the attainment of APAC’s business objectives; collaborate with leaders across various go-to-market functions to drive the best business results while ensuring alignment with global BVC strategies.
- **Develop a solid vision of value selling **in relation to APAC’s business growth. Passionate about value selling in a data-driven SaaS environment, driving value outcomes through digital transformation journeys while inspiring leaders to sell with value
- **Provide mentoring, strategic advice and guidance **to sales leadership and field resources on the execution of sales opportunities using Value Selling methodologies
- **Coach the APAC Value Consulting team **on best practice techniques and business cadence to ensure each BVC is maximizing and continuously evolving their business impact
- **Evangelize Splunk value drivers **and solutions portfolio internally with the field organization and externally with customers, prospects, partners and the wider market through events and conferences
- **Drive high interlock **between sales, technical functions, marketing, services and customer success managers to build, increase and accelerate opportunity value while ensuring customer success through solid value realization plans
- **Help develop, mentor and evolve **the APAC SME community within the technical organization
- **Collaborate with BVC Strategists and across other Specialist functions **to help develop and validate new propositions, methods, tools and advisory workshops that evolve the Splunk selling motion
- **Represent the APAC BVC program **to field success leadership and help unify and evolve value selling methods through consistent evolution of the program
- **Be a good corporate citizen **enabling a two-way flow of relevant and timely information; working as a team for the most efficient use and deployment of resources

**Qualifications**:

- **10+ years’ field experience selling enterprise software **as a specialist within a market segment with a proven track record of supporting sales executives and advising senior business and executive decision makers.
- **5+ years’ leadership experience building and running teams **with customer-facing responsibilities and proven ability to grow and scale services with the company
- **Direct experience selling SAAS **or managing teams that sell SAAS a big plus
- **Trusted advisor experience **helping sales leaders achieve their targets with creative strategies ranging from staffing models, engagement models, alignment methods and support sale strategies
- **Hands-on fiel