Location: Singapore or Sydney
About the Role
The Deal Desk Manager will help accelerate revenue growth of our enterprise business by supporting our sales motion to create quality deals. As the deal desk leader for our sales team, you will be responsible for:
- Supporting the sales team in structuring and executing large/strategic deals, including bid management for enterprise deals.
- Manage our enterprise deal approval process to ensure compliance while enabling unique contracting needs and requirements
- Ensure sales motion reflects a healthy sales discovery process so that deals reflect the customer's needs
- Understand an evolving competitive landscape to help create competitive differentiation
- Provide additional deal desk supporting to other enterprise businesses based on business need
If you're excited by driving growth through global, cross-channel and cross-product initiatives and want to be part of a company that is helping to build a better internet, Cloudflare would love to talk to you.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with the sales team in structuring and executing large/strategic deals, liaison with all organizations involved in the agreement process (e.g., finance, legal, order management, product, services/support).
- Audit and validate data and margins on adhoc deals submitted by the sales team.
- Perform margin and pricing analysis in order to support business strategy.
- Manage international pricing matrix, partner margin deals and large deal approvals.
- Collaborate with internal teams to build, streamline and automate our deal desk processes.
- Perform monthly and ad-hoc analysis to identify opportunities to improve the business KPIs through continuous improvement
- Work with teams to develop pricing tools (e.g., TCO calculators, discounting guidelines) and integrate them into Salesforce
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Must be comfortable in a fast-paced sales environment
- Understand the buying process and negotiating dynamic for enterprise entities
- Experience working the deal desk/contract management team:
- Develop an in-depth understanding of the pricing models
- Provide support in conjunction with contracts, legal & finance teams
- Ability to analyze & recommend the best course of action for complex pricing & licensing situations.
- Knowledge of Cloud/SaaS services, software and solutions is highly recommended
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel, SQL and prior experience with modeling and analysis
- Enjoys engaging with complex, cross-functional teams and individuals
- Experience with
- 8+ years of experience
- 5+ years of deal desk experience
- Possess excellent written and oral communication skills
- Proactive, creative, and results oriented individual
- Experience selling software is considered a bonus
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What We Do
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
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