Senior Sales & Business Development Executive - Cloud Transformation

KPMG’s UK Cloud practice is an award-winning team of over 750 consultants, architects and engineers who help clients transform the way CIOs and their teams deliver technology services to their business stakeholders, using IaaS and PaaS cloud technologies.
Our team help the UK’s largest and most complex organisations develop cloud strategies, build the operating models, architectures and capabilities to deliver value from cloud, and to build and operate their cloud or hybrid estates effectively and cost-efficiently.
We use KPMG’s deep industry insights, C-suite relationships, cloud architecture capabilities, alliances and cloud adoption accelerators ranging from our cloud value labs and KPMG Cloud Cost Management models to our controls frameworks and landing zones. Our engineering squads work with several FTSE25 companies, the largest government departments as well as building the technologies which underpin KPMG’s products and managed services. As we implement these strategies and solutions we sit at the heart of major transformations across the UK, helping technology executives convert business strategy into compelling technology outcomes.

We are growing our Sales and Business Development team to focus on selling our cloud services to meet an ever-increasing demand for our market leading offerings and are seeking your relevant expertise and experience to join us.
 

The Role:
 

As an experienced professional in sales and business development, you’ll be quick to adapt to new situations and bring your knowledge and experience to join our highly talented and passionate cloud transformation team. You’ll be at the forefront of some of the most exciting, complex and leading-edge sales opportunities.
 

At KPMG, your role is key in delivering our growth strategy and responsible for selling the full portfolio of Cloud solutions to clients across markets. The BDM role involves:

• Secure and foster relationships with CIO-level clients to uncover cloud transformation opportunities
• Build relationships and be a trusted advisor to our clients with respect to KPMG’s Cloud Transformation propositions.
• Driving collaboration with consulting teams to help qualify opportunities and lead and manage pursuits, especially around our implementation services
• Work with our consulting teams to define market-leading, client-focused Cloud propositions
• Maintain a regular communication with the wider business development team and ensure targets are delivered
• Working with pre-sales technologist to help clients shape compelling technology solutions with cloud

The Person:

• Collaborative and client-focussed, you enjoy helping clients shape their technology needs and work constructively with peers and colleagues in multi-disciplinary sales pursuits
• You care about the teams around you and help them increase their skills around sales processes, especially where they may come from deep technology backgrounds
• Possess a minimum of 5 years’ experience managing large and complex clients
• Successful

KPMG’s Powered Enterprise is the world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation framework for cloud-based solutions that covers all 6 layers of a customer’s Target Operating Model. It supports customers to make better and faster decisions that drives positive business outcomes, reduces implementation effort while improving ROI. It combines our leading business consulting practice, technology capabilities and insights into a complete solution for intelligent enterprises.

The Powered Apps teams are communities of business and technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver KPMG Powered Enterprise through a standardised delivery model. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement), technology expertise (S/4HANA, CFin, RISE, BTP, MDG, etc.) and SAP SaaS applications (Ariba, SuccessFactors, etc.) to enable customers run successful business transformation programmes enabled by SAP technology.

Director – Financial Services – Identity and Access Management

The role will be working in the UK Cyber Security practice within our Technology and Data service line in Advisory. Our clients are increasingly under cyber-attack and regulatory scrutiny to demonstrate effective management of cyber risk. Our specialists provide independent, jargon free advice and advanced technical capabilities to help our clients proactively manage cyber and technology risks to drive value from their business information assets whilst protecting business.

 Our cyber security services are defined within three capability groups:

• Cyber Risk, Resilience and Privacy
• Identity and access management (IAM) and cloud security
• Cyber Threat Management

This is KPMG Curve, our newest tech venture. And we’re doing things a little differently. Here to solve our clients’ biggest challenges and uncover even bigger opportunities, Curve is all about staying at the cutting edge of technology and swerving the mundane. 

As a fast-growing digital delivery service, we always stay ahead of the curve by keeping up with ever-evolving tech practices. Whether that’s unlocking the power of AI, coding for the future of the planet or everything in-between. In a world where tech is always changing, so are we.

What’s in it for you?

Progression at pace. Innovation, led by constant learning. Work that excites you with every twist and turn. It all starts at KPMG Curve. Here, you’ll progress your career as part of a connected team, while being encouraged to be your true, authentic self.

At Curve, we offer career paths that can accelerate top performers, without having to go into management. You can stay technically-focused and carry on improving in your favourite tech field. You won’t be responsible for any sales work, either.

Other benefits include a learning allowance (so you can control your own growth) and paid overtime – prioritising the things that matter most to you. We take our work-life balance seriously, and will make sure you get time back if you’ve been working on anything heavy. At the end of the day, your well-being is what matters most.

KPMG’s Insurance Enterprise Architecture practice is a leading independent advisor for Technology Architecture professional services. We help CIOs, CTOs and their management teams transform their businesses and IT services. Our clients have to develop robust and executable strategies that have to account for the continual development of technology, with current focus being on Digital disruption, exploitation of cloud technologies and modernising the IT estate.

We help these organisations understand and evaluate their strategic options, build business cases, design the roadmaps and then continually optimise. We have deeply skilled architects to support this journey and make the path robust throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

We are growing our Insurance Architecture team to respond to the increasing demand and in particular seeking technologists with architecture backgrounds and experience in Enterprise Architecture within the Insurance sector. Within the Insurance Architecture team, we work across all areas of the sector, from General Insurance, to Health Insurance, Life and all of London Markets, including Carriers, Brokers, Underwriting, MGA’s, as well as all aspects of the value chain. We look to simplify streamline end-to end architecture, reduce legacy, ensure appropriate governance is in place, as well as advise on new and innovative technology to enable our clients to grow their business and differentiate themselves in the market.