Senior Deal Desk Manager

Company Description

At ServiceNow, our technology makes the world work for everyone, and our people make it possible. We move fast because the world can’t wait, and we innovate in ways no one else can for our customers and communities. By joining ServiceNow, you are part of an ambitious team of change makers who have a restless curiosity and a drive for ingenuity. We know that your best work happens when you live your best life and share your unique talents, so we do everything we can to make that possible. We dream big together, supporting each other to make our individual and collective dreams come true. The future is ours, and it starts with you. 

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Job Description

The Senior Deal Desk Manager will be the trusted advisor to the Sales team and an extended member of Sales Management Team. They will be responsible for collaborating on pricing, product, and commercial terms for non-standard transactions.

What you get to do in this role:

• Establish alignment between customer executives and ServiceNow
• Own and drive negotiations of complex deal financial structure, terms and conditions that affect revenue, legal, operations, discounts  that are necessary to close strategic agreements with customers
• Collaborate with Customers and ServiceNow teams to identify mutually acceptable commercial options to facilitate deal closure
• Provide deal construct guidance to Sales & Sales Management, leveraging knowledge and experience from multiple products and packaging
• Partner with key functions to deliver outcomes aligned to client expectations and internal requirements (e.g. revenue, legal)
• Shift deal portfolio balance towards larger enterprise wide agreements with customers
• 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, legal and revenue guidelines, policies and standards
• Act as parallel approver for deals on which engaged
• Liaise between Field Sales and Revenue Accounting on accounting close questions and cross functional team in multiple time zones
• Train, mentor and enable Field Sales team, Sales Operations Specialists on deal structuring principles, pricing and packaging

Qualifications

Our ideal candidate: 

• Experience in an international sales organization supporting a Sales team for a US/European HQ company
• 8+ years of experience in a finance, deal desk, contracts, sales operations, or revenue role; Software / SaaS experience 
• 7+ years of experience in a strategic contract negotiation role with no less than 5 years in negotiating complex strategic IT contracts in a SaaS environment
• Demonstrates success with large complex commercial and legal negotiations working with procurement, legal, and business teams
• Experience in face-to-face negotiation of IT contracts on behalf of large customers 
• Strong business / commercial acumen with excellent communication skills - verbal and written coupled with the ability of developing and maintaining trusted relationships with Sales teams
• Self-motivated and able to work under pressure; dependable with deliverables and deadlines, able to multi-task
• 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

Desired education: 

• BS, finance or MBA, Business Administration

For positions in the Bay Area, we offer a base pay of $143,300 - $250,700, plus equity (w