Manager, Solution Consulting - Japan

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About the Team

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About the Role

Workday’s Japan business has seen significant growth in the last couple of years. And we expect this to accelerate even more as the region adjusts. As we continue to strengthen our position in this key market, there is an increased opportunity to expand our footprint through the wider portfolio of HCM, Financials, Planning, Sourcing and Analytics solutions that Workday now offers. Increasingly, organizations that want to transform the way they operate are replacing legacy systems with Workday’s SaaS Enterprise Management applications. 

To capitalize on the opportunities in this market and to scale the sales support and customer engagements to new levels, Workday is looking to bring another leader to support the entire Presales team in Japan and lead growth both in terms of people, as well as operations. The team is composed of functional solution consultants who are subject matter authorities in various product areas and technical and business architects, who bring the solution together from a customer context. 

As a key member of the Japan leadership team, this leader personally contributes to achieving Workday’s main objectives, such as excellence in deal support, demand management, quarterly and annual planning, presales skills enhancement to name a few.

About You

Responsibilities 

• Planning: Contribute to Japan GTM plan and develop a Presales plan (resources, skills, processes, etc) aligned with budget and productivity objectives; periodically review and adjust the plan as the year evolves

• Build and implement programs to upskill the team (individuals and managers); identify external resources/candidates to fill skill gaps in the team, to scale and service the business in the most appropriate way

• Serve as a “Business Partner” to the Regional Sales President and Regional Sales Directors in deciding on focus industries, account/opportunity strategy, solution positioning and approach, win themes, value propositions.

• Deal support: Develop an organization focused on Presales standard methodologies around business value-based selling and innovations, customer understanding, simplified and relevant demonstration capabilities, themes, messaging and storytelling; develop strong deal leadership through solution captaining and competitive intelligence. Personally, invest in key opportunities for Workday and contribute to strategy and execution. Proactively manage and solve sales customer concerns on resource or support quality issues. 

• Pipeline Validation and Progression: Ensure Presales’ active participation in the early validation of sales opportunities, coordinate sales support activities to nurture the qualified pipeline and support strategic engagement to influence customer choice towards Workday

• Profitable revenue growth: Continually drive proactive management of resources and costs to increase quality of support and win rate while optimizing investment in opportunities

• People Management: Be a role model in people management; develop trust and motivation of presales team; ensure fair treatment of employees and continuous fact-based performance feedback is provided by presales management to direct reports, as well as regular and open communication; strive to retain, reward and develop our best talent; develop all presales resources to best support business needs; continually attract new talent in support of our vision/goals, act quickly in addressing under performance situations; ensure excellence in all people related processes and embody the unique Workday cultural values

• Solution and Industry excellence: Foster an environment of collaboration and development specific to the knowledge in the Japan and APJ markets. Proactively collaborate to share standard processes and knowledge

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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