Leads Managed Services sales strategy across North and Latin America, owning pipeline development, solution shaping, pricing, negotiations, contract closure, and delivery transition. Builds executive customer relationships, develops recurring-revenue opportunities, expands strategic accounts, and partners cross-functionally on profitable service models. The role focuses on network, infrastructure, cloud, edge, automation, and transformation services for CSP and Enterprise customers.
The Managed Service Pre-Sales Lead for Americas Region is responsible for driving the sales strategy across North America and Latin America.
- Lead the Managed Services sales organization across CSP and Enterprise markets in the Americas, driving new business, recurring revenue growth, strategic account expansion, and market development.
- Own the end-to-end sales lifecycle from market strategy, opportunity development, and solution shaping through commercial negotiation, contract award, and transition to delivery.
- Build executive-level customer relationships and position Managed Services as a strategic lever for operational transformation, cost optimization, service quality, and business agility.
- Partner with Services Delivery, Solution Architecture, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Customer Success to develop differentiated, profitable, and scalable Managed Services solutions.
- Develop and execute the Managed Services go-to-market strategy across CSP and Enterprise segments, identifying priority markets, accounts, and growth opportunities.
- Build and manage a strong pipeline of strategic opportunities spanning network operations, infrastructure operations, NOC/service desk, cloud and edge operations, automation, and adjacent services.
- Lead complex Managed Services pursuits from opportunity creation through solution development, RFP/RFI response, pricing, negotiation, and contract closure.
- Develop customer value propositions and business cases demonstrating measurable outcomes such as cost reduction, operational efficiency, improved availability, and accelerated transformation.
- Lead executive customer engagements and strategic workshops to understand business priorities, operational challenges, and transformation roadmaps.
- Shape commercial and operating models with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment across scope, SLAs/KPIs, staffing, automation, transition, risk, pricing, and profitability.
- Drive expansion of existing accounts through additional service towers, geographic expansion, new technologies, automation, and transformation initiatives.
- Establish sales governance covering pipeline, forecasting, opportunity qualification, pricing, deal approval, and pursuit execution.
- Ensure effective handover of awarded contracts into delivery while maintaining customer commitments, commercial objectives, and business outcomes.
COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS ACCOUNTABILITY
- Own sales performance across assigned markets, including bookings, revenue, recurring revenue, pipeline, gross margin, and customer growth.
- Develop multi-year account growth strategies and prioritize resources toward high-value opportunities.
- Partner with Finance and business leadership on pricing, business cases, deal economics, risk, and commercial approvals.
- Track and improve key metrics including pipeline coverage, win rate, bookings, recurring revenue, margin, sales cycle, and customer retention/expansion.
CUSTOMER & MARKET LEADERSHIP
- Establish trusted relationships with C-suite and senior executives across CSP and Enterprise customers.
- Position the organization as a strategic Managed Services partner rather than a transactional service provider.
- Identify emerging opportunities across network transformation, cloud, edge, AI/automation, infrastructure modernization, and next-generation operations.
- Represent the Managed Services portfolio with customers, partners, and industry stakeholders.
- The final job grade will depend on the candidate's qualifications, skills, and experience.
SUCCESS IN THE FIRST 12–18 MONTHS
- Establish a clear Managed Services growth strategy and prioritized target-account plan across CSP and Enterprise markets.
- Build a healthy, qualified pipeline that supports the organization's growth and recurring-revenue objectives.
- Secure initial strategic Managed Services wins and establish a strong foundation of multi-year customer relationships.
- Expand selected existing customer engagements through new service towers, geographies, technologies, and transformation programs.
- Establish a repeatable sales and pursuit model with strong forecasting, qualification, commercial governance, and cross-functional execution.
- Strengthen executive relationships with strategic customers and establish the organization as a trusted Managed Services transformation partner.
- Deliver measurable improvement in bookings, recurring revenue, margin, pipeline quality, and customer expansion.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of progressive experience in Managed Services, services sales, outsourcing, telecommunications, IT services, cloud services, or related technology services.
- Proven success leading complex Managed Services sales engagements with CSPs, Enterprise customers, or large technology organizations.
- Demonstrated track record of securing significant, multi-year and recurring-revenue services contracts.
- Experience leading complex pursuits from opportunity development through solutioning, commercial negotiation, contract award, and transition to delivery.
- Strong understanding of Managed Services operating models, including NOC, network operations, field services, infrastructure operations, cloud/edge operations, automation, and SLA/KPI management.
- Strong executive presence and demonstrated ability to influence C-suite and senior decision makers.
- Strong commercial acumen across pricing, financial modeling, business cases, contract structures, margin, and risk.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams across Sales, Solutioning, Delivery, Engineering, Product, Finance, and Operations.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
Willingness to travel 25–40% across the Americas.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience selling large-scale Managed Services, network outsourcing, infrastructure outsourcing, or technology transformation programs to Tier-1 CSPs or large Enterprise customers.
- Proven experience securing multi-year Managed Services agreements with significant recurring revenue.
- Experience expanding Managed Services across multiple service towers, geographies, or technologies.
- Experience with emerging services including cloud, edge computing, private wireless, AI/automation, and network transformation.
- Experience developing new Managed Services offerings or building a sales organization within a growth-stage, joint venture, or newly formed business.
- Experience with outcome-based, consumption-based, gain-share, or other innovative Managed Services commercial models.
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Some of our benefits in US:
- Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
- Health and dental benefits
- Short-term disability, and long-term disability
- Life insurance, and AD&D – Company paid 2x base pay
- Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Tuition Assistance Plan
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program
The above benefits exclude students.
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