Head of Future Contact Solutions

Are you ready to shape the future of public safety solutions? We're looking for an expert and innovative Head of Public Safety Future Contact Pre-Sales & Solutions to join our dynamic team at Sopra Steria. In this key role, you'll work closely with customers and internal collaborators to develop and deliver pioneering solutions that align with customer needs and our broader capabilities, including Salesforce opportunities. Our team is collaborative, supportive, and driven by a shared commitment to creating impact in public safety. Together, we foster an environment that encourages creativity, critical thinking, and professional growth. We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities. What you'll be doing:

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with customers to understand their requirements and align them with Sopra Steria's capabilities.
• Leading the development and execution of growth strategies for the Public Safety sector.
• Driving value propositions and proposals to achieve customer and business objectives.
• Collaborating with sales, business development, and product teams to optimally guide all stages of the sales cycle.
• Managing a pipeline of prospects, opportunities, and firm proposals to make sure a balanced portfolio.
• Providing market intelligence and insights to advise company strategy and decision-making.
  
  Experience in a customer-facing role, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels.
• Expertise in the Public Safety sector and an understanding of its unique challenges.
• High-level technical knowledge to advise solution development.
• The ability to work independently and deliver results without supervision.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to foster collaboration and build relationships.
It would be great if you had:
• Knowledge of Salesforce and its applications in public safety.
  
  Benefits: Bonus, £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy extra days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us? Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.