Job Description

If you like providing efficient, effective solutions to complex challenges, join us at Ascent! Be at the heart of helping achieve extraordinary things with software and data for our customers!

About us

We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.

We specialize in software product development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and modernization of applications, data, and platforms.

We work with incredible clients in all types of industries such as smart home devices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology, and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses and employ the sharpest minds too!

Opportunity

As a Client Technology Portfolio Director you will be directly underpinning the 2023 focus on enterprise customer development with a key focus on Insurance. Build trust and rapport with senior stakeholders in named accounts, understand and influence their strategies, provide multi-party tech advice, solve challenges, and drive Ascent\'s product roadmap while producing case studies and event successes.

You will

Be the overall account technical services portfolio owner for 2 or 3 of our most valuable enterprise clients with a focus on insurance

Shape the new role with the Ascent Head of Enterprise Services, CCO & CTO in way that works best for Ascent, our customers and your talents

Use your experience in insurance to serve as a domain lead to uncover potential opportunities within insurance business functions

Use your knowledge of Azure, dev ops , data or analytics to build solutions for our accounts

Build trusted and value-based relationships with senior customer stakeholders

Own end-to-end service/solution value propositions (supported by internal and customer teams)

Manage account cadence and steering

Forecast and own account roadmap, revenue and capacity plan

Drive Ascent product, portfolio and recruitment roadmaps/owners as a key internal customer

Ensure enterprise account sustainability and growth, without single points or services of failure

Lead, evangelise and promote your accounts internally and externally where appropriate

Lead a team of technology SMEs, commercial/legal support and on occasion our Ascent\xe2\x80\x99s executive to provide account value

Offset your costs by providing chargeable, high value lead and pre-contract continuity services 1-2 days a week into key customer programs.

You have

Successfully owned and sold a broad range of med-high value tech services/solutions to large/enterprise customers.

Have experience of digital transformation within the insurance sector

Strong knowledge of building solutions with Azure, dev ops , data or analytics

A strong customer value focus

Proven team, opportunity and solution management experience

An ability to build confidence with integrity

Extensive experience as a sales or delivery SME across a wide range of modern technologies

A strong motivation to learn, grow Ascent based on results and define your career here in the process.

Working at Ascent

• Life assurance
• Wellness benefits
• Pension contribution
• Competitive Salary

Our offices are places to connect and collaborate with colleagues, with socials and regular get-togethers. We take your development and growth seriously, with plenty of opportunities to acquire skills and get certified.

Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favourably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.

If you have any questions contact our Talent Acquisition team on ta.admin@ascent.io.

For more details about life at Ascent, check out our Life Page .

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