Senior Manager Strategic Transformation Services

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The Opportunity

From the moment you wake up in the morning until you go to bed at night consider the media you consume, the adverts you see, the apps you use, the websites you browse and almost all of the shopping you do online throughout the day. Chances are that every single one of those interactions, every single one of those experiences, was touched by an Adobe product.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Manager Strategic Transformation Services to join our Professional Services Sales Team based in Paris.

The Senior Manager Strategic Transformation Services for the Western region will effectively partner with country sales teams and leaders to drive impactful professional services partnership across large scale opportunities. This role will report to the Snr Dir, Professional Services Sales and partner closely across the sales ecosystem ensuring PS can translate the strategic vision created by DSG and SPP teams into the 'how' when it comes to large scale opportunities. Early involvement in deal cycles will be critical to success and this role will ensure PS are early stage thought partners to reduce reactive involvement later in the sales cycle. This role is responsible for ensuring that PS resources are deployed effectively across all relevant sales stages to ensure high quality talent can positively impact transformational deals. While this role will lead PS strategic partnerships predominantly for Western region (France, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Nordics), it will also build out the PS SP engagement and operating model across EMEA, ensuring thought leadership, consistency of practice and resource deployment are in place.

What You'll Do

• Deploy thought leadership to build out a programmatic PS strategic partnerships approach and work to leverage PS resources to win the biggest deals
• Ensure resources are deployed in a high impact manner; either in early sales stages for initial nurture, positioning + POVs, or in later sales stages for high quality delivery plans PS involvement in SPP deals to position the 'how' and accelerate deal velocity, including, multi-year plans for scaling technology, operating models & change management, adoption and enablement programs and best practices to drive maturity and value realisation
• Prescriptive delivery POVs, recommendations and roadmaps based on solution & industry best practice
• Ensure customer and partner readiness for implementation, sharing of best practices and activities for fast technology go live
• Work in close partnership with SPP team to ensure visibility of pipeline, dashboards and regular attendance in pipeline review calls
• Build long-term, trusted relationships both internally and externally
• Coach peers and colleagues to adapt ways of working to deliver against the PS strategic partnerships framework and appropriately leverage retrospectives to drive individual and programmatic learning

What You'll need to Succeed

• Demonstrate horizontal leadership, working closely with Adobe's country and regional leaders and other functional areas to realise the value of Professional Services
• Be considered a thought leader in the capabilities and value add of professional services with an ability to balance critical thinking and more tactical execution
• Demonstrate an ability to successfully drive and embed change/transformation and diversity of thought
• Have experience of working on large scale, transformative sales deals
• Deep experience working with and across the C-Suite, both internally and externally
• Highly collaborative and versant in successfully navigating global, matrixed environment
• Demonstrated strong growth mindset that seeks to uniquely solve difficult customer challenges
• Proven track record to build trust and be highly credible across all levels of organizations.
• Exceptional ability to understand and evangelize ground-breaking methodologies, standard processes, and digital transformation concepts
• Hold diversity, equity, and inclusion at the heart of all you decide, do, and personify

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At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely. If you're looking to make an impact, Adobe's the place for you. Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the meaningful benefits we offer.

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