Sales Manager (Data Solutions)

Data Solutions Sales Manager

Work Location: Pakistan (PAK)
Work Mode: Onsite (Islamabad)
Experience Required: 5 to 10 Years

Role Summary

Consultative Sales Manager to grow business across three lines: data management solutions, consulting services, and IT staff augmentation. Owns the full sales cycle — from lead generation to closing and account growth — working with solution architects and delivery teams to shape client offers.

Key Responsibilities

- Generate leads via own network, referrals, technology partners, and events.
- Qualify leads on business need, budget, decision maker, and timeline; maintain sufficient qualified pipeline.
- Keep opportunities current in CRM; track conversion rates, deal size, and sales cycle.
- Provide weekly pipeline updates and monthly/quarterly forecasts.
- Close new business for data management offerings: data governance, MDM, data quality, data integration, data warehousing, analytics platforms, cloud data modernization.
- Sell consulting services: assessments, strategy/roadmap engagements, implementation projects, managed services.
- Run client discovery sessions; translate data challenges into business cases.
- Work with pre-sales/technical teams on proposals, solution presentations, SOWs, and RFP/RFI responses.
- Lead pricing, terms, and contract negotiations through to signature.
- Build pipeline for staff augmentation roles: data engineers, data analysts, BI developers, data architects, cloud/integration specialists.
- Coordinate with talent/recruitment teams to present candidates and manage placement through onboarding.
- Negotiate rates, contract terms, and extensions; grow placements into larger teams or project engagements.
- Build trusted relationships with CIOs, CDOs, IT directors, procurement, and HR leaders.
- Cross-sell between solutions, consulting, and staff augmentation.
- Track client satisfaction; work with delivery teams to meet commitments.
- Build relationships with technology partners/vendors (cloud and data platform providers) for joint opportunities.
- Represent company at events, webinars, and client workshops.
- Stay current on data management market trends and competitor offerings.

Targets

- Achieve quarterly and annual targets for order booking, revenue, and margin.
- Measured on: target achievement, qualified pipeline created, conversion rate, new clients won.

Must Have

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, IT, or related field.
- 7+ years B2B sales experience in IT services, software, or consulting, including 3+ years selling data/analytics or related technology solutions.
- Proven experience selling IT staff augmentation or resource-based services.
- Track record of meeting/exceeding sales targets with discussable deal sizes and results.
- Understanding of data management concepts: data governance, data quality, MDM, ETL/ELT, data warehousing, data lakes, cloud data platforms.
- Experience with consultative and solution selling, including writing proposals and responding to RFPs.
- Existing network of decision makers in banking/telecom/retail/manufacturing/public sector (target region).
- Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
- Disciplined pipeline tracking and forecasting in a CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar).

Nice to Have

- Familiarity with Informatica, Microsoft (Azure, Fabric, Power BI), Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- Experience selling into international markets (GCC / North America / UK / Europe).
- Sales certifications/training in a structured sales method (MEDDIC, SPIN, Challenger, Solution Selling).