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This position demands strong banking /BFSI domain expertise,

precisely retail lending stack.

Senior Presales Manager / Leads.

Work Location : Hyderabad.

Pennant is looking for highly experienced and seasoned Senior Presales Manager to drive the presales function and to support the Sales and Business Development team from functional and solution perspective of Lending Factory which is Pennant's flagship product suite covers the complete loan life cycle. As a senior presales manager, you are accountable for driving the presales life cycle in client acquisition, revenue generation and growth. If you are seasoned professional with excellent understanding of the business application from the functional and technical perspective preferably in the BFSI area, this is an excellent opportunity with tremendous growth potential.

Growth Opportunity:

Banking is the biggest consumer of technology and the share is simply growing. Banks generate maximum profits out of Lending operations hence it’s imperative for them to ensure they use the right business driven technological platforms or solution right from the customer on-boarding, origination, servicing till the closure. In the past few years FI’s have not been able to refresh lending tech stack and that’s leading to challenges, higher operational cost and customer dissatisfaction. However the stupendous growth in lending activities across the segments, markets and LOB’s in the recent times has created once in a decade business opportunity for Pennant. Do you want to be part of our growth story?

Roles & Responsibilities:

·      You have to bring in domain and industry knowledge, share know-how gained through client interactions in a structured way to the product engineering, implementation, sales, marketing and senior management;

·      Role involves gathering market competition and customer information, responding to RFPs/RFIs- Functional/Technical compliances, Solution Preparation, Proposal preparation, as per the timelines of prospect/customer, coordinate with different internal/external teams to identify the business pains to offer a solution in line with the client requirement

·      Work closely with various internal teams to orchestrate the right technical, functional and commercial responses that create differentiated value for Pennant and help winning bids;

·      Take bottom line responsibility for highest possible quality of our responses, presentations and interactions with the prospect;

·      Prepare and present the company and its responses to CXO’s of the prospect;

·      Lead discovery workshops to determine customers business challenges and deliver product demonstrations to align solution with customer needs

·      Collaborate with marketing and take responsibility to build collaterals for specific LOB’s, personas and modules; refresh them on regular basis;

·      Write blogs, whitepapers and contribute content for website/social media as an when required; get noticed;

·      Mentoring and handholding the junior staff and build excellent presales capabilities

·      Deserving candidate would have worked in the past in technical solutions and presales capacity

Skills and Competencies:

·      Great presentation and communication skills is a must;

·      Hunger for world class quality work is expected;

·      Minimum of 5 years plus experience in handling multi-million USD international pursuits;

·      Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services to the highest possible quality;

·      Deep knowledge of banking applications, hardware and software, including lending business processes and programming;

·      Coordination, presentation skills, objection handling and effective written communication, questioning skills, influencing and personal impact;

·      Excellent intra personal skills and problem-solving skills;

·      Able to persuade client to buy our software;

·      Demonstrating integrity and transparency in the engagement;

Experience & Qualifications:

·      Experience : 8-15 years (I am open to consider Presales Consultants with 4+ years of experience also)

·      MBA graduate from a reputed institute or CA

Job Details:

·      Work Location : Hyderabad .. - 5 days, Work from office, no hybrid now.

·      Territory : Domestic and International Markets

• Attributes: Resourceful, Self-starter, Independent and Self-motivated, Ambitious, Entrepreneurial spirit, Collaborative, Focused

About Pennant:

Pennant Technologies is an agile, innovative financial technology company that powers the lending operations of global banks and financial institutions - HDFC, Bajaj Finserve, LIC HFL, Godrej HFL, RAK Bank, QNB to name a few.

Its suite of future ready lending products and solutions offer banks composable features and scalable capabilities to deliver differentiated loan origination, servicing and collections experiences for their customers. Trusted by leading banks and financial institutions in Asia, Pennant’s award-winning lending platform has managed more than 10 Million loans and facilitates 50 Million loan transactions per year.

Pennant is HQ in Hyderabad and have offices and/ business operations in India, ME, Saudi, Australia, Philippines and UK. We are aggressively expanding across the geographies and adding to our 450+ workforce, spread across multiple locations. Visit us at www.pennanttech.com

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To coordinate with the sales team to deliver proposals, solutions etc. (including Request for proposals, request for information, idea and solution generation, road-map creation, and more)
• Coordinate with the tech team to generate appropriate project estimates and to come up with execution timelines and milestones.
• Where relevant, support sales team by presenting solution to prospects and clients.
• Ensure that the proposed (technical) solution is suitable for development, its associated architecture and also get the timelines required to develop the proposed scope.
• To build knowledge repository for further business development.
• To prepare case studies of all projects.
• Be updated with latest industry and technology trends, and to market research.
• Conduct account specific research on key accounts.
• Create solution frameworks for industries / domain we choose to play in.
• Provide support to sales team for any presentations and collaterals on our service offerings.
• Create and maintain a catalogue of service offerings along with necessary collateral in terms of presentations, documents etc.

QUALITIES & QUALIFICATIONS:

- Strong communication skills, written as well as oral

- Good sense of design

- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

- Familiarity with digital technologies (trends, key players, and more) as well as with software -

developmentprocess, methodologies, standard practices and conventions, and so on.

- MBA from a reputed institution

- Strong research skills, especially with regard to scanning financial reports, industry data trends,

and so on.

Keeping abreast of market trends and product & competitor landscapes

• Leadership and communication skills
• Very skilled at MS office applications like Word, Excel, Powerpoint 
• Presentation skills
• Excellent writing skills and flair
• Interest in and understanding of the industry – often a technology-related one
• Ability to research and keep on top of industry developments
• Influencing and negotiation skills
• Aptitude for time management and organisation
• Problem-solving ability.

• Lead and design solutions for complex testing problems by driving the requirements discussions with existing customers
• Conceptualize, design, develop and present the proposed solution; ensuring an integrated end-to-end testing solution is delivered 'right first time'
• Responsible for end to end pre-sales pursuit management in coordination with cross functional teams such as sales, delivery, horizontals, networking, marketing and process teams in global delivery model for the existing accounts
• Stay up to speed on process, practice and technology developments to ensure they enhance the solutions applied to the testing problems
• Act as a technical liaison between prospects, clients, quality engineering teams and management
• Engage with the customer build professional relationship; participate in teleconferences; lead customer workshops and presentations
• Mentor and train team members on domain and technology, help resolve any technical issues
• Travel to customer location across the geography to participate in proposal / RFP / SOW defense discussions and presentations
• Lead continuous improvement activities through contribution to technology repositories, supporting process change, leading transformational changes and driving re-use

Good to have Skills / Experience

• 14-18 years proven experience as a Solution Architect on large-scale testing accounts
• Experience as a Solution Architect or senior SME leading the development of solutions for testing complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers.
• Awareness of testing approaches, practices, techniques and methodologies to help design the overall testing solution
• Ability to have conversation with client (key stakeholders or key technologist at client). Ability to drive the discussion and arrive at conclusion
• The ability to see the big picture and manage multiple threads at the same time
• Well-versed in continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous testing
• Understand and plan for commercial aspects and impact on winnability and deliverability of the solution
• In depth knowledge of one or more technical specializations including - quality engineering, release management, test environment management, test automation, test data management, testing approaches and test execution, performance engineering, development operations.
• Experience with all SDLC (Agile, Scaled Agile, DevOps) and engagement models
• Strong stakeholder relationship management and the confidence to initiate and influence relationships with and between key stakeholders
• Know the art of negotiation, persuasion and deal management