APJ Pre-Sales Leader - Cloud

Description

About CloudBlue

CloudBlue is the world’s largest cloud platform provider that orchestrates B2B ecosystems by enabling management of traditional and digital products and subscriptions, quickly onboarding, and integrating with partners, and scaling Digital Business globally with a single platform.

At CloudBlue we connect players in both IP Owners and Go-To-Market ecosystems, enabling their digital transformation into the subscription economy and accelerating their time to revenue by managing the catalogs, order fulfillment, subscription & billing across their multiple channels.

A revenue-generating platform that underpins the largest Telcos, Distributors, MSPs, VARS and Enterprises, and connects them with the largest ecosystem of leading SaaS, PaaS and IaaS vendors in the market. We help these Provider partners monetize and manage the entire lifecycle of cloud services, infrastructure, and IoT subscriptions, so they can simplify digital transformation with confidence, speed, and agility.

CloudBlue is the only cloud commerce engine with a proven hyper-scale digital platform, and today powers the world’s largest service provider marketplaces, totalling more than 30 million seats globally. CloudBlue, a newly formed Ingram Micro business, is the result of $500 million in investments, including the acquisitions of Odin, Ensim, and four others software companies. Our CloudBlue commerce platform enables companies to rapidly increase their level of success in the cloud market by building, scaling, and monetizing services.

CloudBlue is the fabric that transcends every aspect of the new digital economy. We are enabling SaaS transactions, delivering cloud services and offering enterprise-level anything-as-a-service faster, simpler and more cost-effectively. Our diverse and innovative team enjoys the continually evolving environment we are in, surrounded by the infinite potential of technology and leading the XaaS revolution.

Our entrepreneurial scope means we operate with the agility of a high growth start-up, but with the confidence & security of an established corporation. The Asia Pacific business is the fastest growing region, where our corporate focus and investment will give you the platform to make your mark globally, with the support of a high-performance regional team.

We are hiring a strong, a high energy professional that has her/his mind in the evolution of Cloud services experience, and has the influence to lead internal and external stakeholders on a journey towards rapid & sustainable growth with our ecosystem of partners, vendors, and End users.

About You

You have a passion for leading at the cutting edge of IT & Cloud computing - providing transformative thought-leadership to organisations in the world’s most diverse and exciting region.

You are a high-energy person with a very strong work ethic and excellent team building skills.  You have a great ability to engage leadership and the team cross-functionally. You’ll inspire your team to deliver best in class solutions, influence & thought-lead their customers, and infectiously encourage a passionate work-ethic to deliver beyond expectations. You’re proactive and have a high attention to detail. You have an astute business mind, backed by technical expertise and depth. You are clear and communicative with a focus on establishing best practices.  You’re great at public speaking with strong customer presentation skills and technical acumen. Given that you will need to be the expert in our products, knowledge and experience of the cloud industry will be necessary.

What you’ll do

• Lead & inspire a team of high-performing Solution Architects
• Player coach, you are excited to continue you sharpen your skill set by working on your own opportunities whilst leading the team.
• Have the executive gravitas to be a leader in the region, often seen internally and externally as the 2IC (2nd in command) to the Regional GM
• Engage regularly with Director and C-Suite level customers
• Oversee the adoption and implementation of CloudBlue solutions for customers
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to help customers ensure they are making the most cost-efficient choices
• Analyze customer business objectives and partner with your team to help shape the right solution to meet their needs
• Perform analysis, create decks and support your team in presenting regular reviews to customer leadership
• Be the voice of the customer, champion and advocate for customer requirements with our Product and Engineering teams
• Contribute educational content and blog posts to help customers derive more business value from the CloudBlue solution
• Provide a next level customer experience for everyone you deal with
• Travel as needed to ensure the success of critical customers

Strong candidates will have these attributes

• Leadership through inspiration
• Cloud industry knowledge 
• Cloud commerce thought leadership & influence
• Experienced communicating with & guiding senior decision makers
• Skilled at building relationships with customers, co-workers and your direct reports
• Persistent, tenacious and able to deal with people when they are happy or not
• A great communicator in both technical and non-technical contexts
• An engineering degree with an MBA in a related field is preferred