Deal Desk Manager

Company Description

It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today — ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

Job Description

What you get to do in this role:

• Be the trusted advisor to the sales team, collaborating on pricing, product, and commercial terms for non-standard transactions
• Establish alignment between customer executives and ServiceNow
• Lead deal structuring efforts for critical client engagements, including client facing negotiation
• Own and drive negotiations of complex deal financial structure, terms and conditions that affect revenue, legal, operations, discounts etc that are necessary to close strategic agreements with customers.
• Partner with key functions to deliver outcomes aligned to client expectations and internal requirements (e.g. revenue, legal, sales operations, etc)
• Maintain deep understanding of regional account strategy and criteria for opportunity engagement
• Increase the competency of account teams by enabling them on deal structuring and negotiation skills
• Ensure sales and negotiation strategies adhere to established discounting guidelines, policies and standards
• Contribute to initiatives and improvement projects
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure expeditious deal closure and that the business we enter into is good for both ServiceNow and our Customer

Qualifications

Required/preferred experience and competencies:

• 5-7+ years of experience in a finance, deal desk, contracts, sales operations, or revenue role; Software / SaaS experience preferred
• Minimum 5-7+ years of experience in a strategic contract negotiation role
• Collaborate with Customers and ServiceNow teams to identify mutually acceptable commercial options to facilitate deal closure
• Demonstrated success with large complex commercial and legal negotiations working with procurement, legal, and business teams
• Ensure transactions comply with revenue recognition and business operational policies that meet company's margins and revenue growth goals
• Provide deal construct guidance to Sales & Sales Management, demonstrating a keen understanding of ServiceNow’s product offerings
• Provide approvals responsibly
• Liaise between Field Sales and Revenue Accounting on accounting questions
• Train, Mentor and enable Field Sales team, Sales Operations Specialists on deal structuring principles, pricing and packaging
• Strong business / commercial acumen with excellent communication skills - verbal and written coupled with the ability of developing and maintaining trusted relationships with Sales teams
• A thorough understanding of the sales process and the ability to navigate and progress long, complex sales cycles
• Self-motivated and able to work under pressure; dependable with deliverables and deadlines, able to multi-task
• Flexible to work extended hours during peak periods
• BS, finance or MBA, Business Administration a plus

Attributes:

• Detailed, self-motivated, change agent, responsible, dependable, flexible, confident, enjoy high-paced environment, eager to learn

Additional Information

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Employment Type

Full-time

Location Type

Remote