Solution Architect

At Jabil we strive to make ANYTHING POSSIBLE and EVERYTHING BETTER. We are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions. With over 50 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

We have an exciting opportunity on our team for a **Solutions Architect**. The Solutions Architect will work alongside the US Solutions Team to respond to RFP’s, create proposals, and develop a sales pipeline.. The Solutions Architect will have two primary areas of responsibility: 1) business development 2) sales solutioning. The focus of business development is lead generation and qualification, with volume and quality metrics. In addition, the Solutions Architect will help to form strategies and execute sales campaigns. Sales solutioning focuses on setting and executing sales strategy at the opportunity level and developing deals through to win/closure. The priorities of this role will shift between the two functions as business needs dictate.

**What can you expect to do?**
- Engage with prospects and listen to what procurement solutions may be the best fit for their needs
- Educate, answer questions, and connect resources to potential clients on ProcureAbility’s offerings and capabilities
- Develop solutions and create proposals to prospective clients' business needs
- Produce and manage the creation of high-quality, professional deliverables, proposals, and RFx responses
- Document sales solutioning approach, pricing strategy, client notes, and create other documentation as needed in the sales cycle
- Manage the end to end sales cycle with prospective clients from inbound opportunity through close
- Focus on shortening the length of the sales cycle by generating quality leads and acting as quality control to ensure prospective client clients align with our product mix
- Conduct market research and individual prospect research
- Drive standardization in solutioning process and approachFacilitate contract negotiations with Legal
- Drive continuous process improvement to increase yield in SQL to win ratio
- Set and manage sales metrics, dashboard oversight, and maintenance and report to internal stakeholders
- Maintain CRM (Hubspot) to manage pipeline and ensure accurate forecasting

**What is the experience needed to be successful in this role?**
- Minimum of five (5) years in business development/solutions/sales and/or equivalent work experience within the procurement function
- Experience supporting US-based and global companies and clients across timezones
- Worked within procurement consulting world
- Experience in negotiation, contract triage, and administration

**Core Competencies**:

- Excellent business development and client relationship skills
- Excellent storytelling, documentation, and verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to influence clients, including C-Suite executives
- Strong active listening skills and the ability to ask clarifying questions
- Self-starter, demonstrating initiative and confidence, ability to self-motivate, and work collaboratively with others
- Ability to manage own workload, maintain deadlines, and prioritize / reprioritize effectively
- Ability to work in a challenging, fast-paced, and results-driven team environment
- Attention to detail in a metrics-driven model
- Ability to provide 6 or more hours of overlap with US Eastern Time ZoneAbility to attend conferences and represent ProcureAbility as required

**Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.**

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