Technical Sales Consultant

**Technical Sales Consultant (Innovation & Collaboration)**:

**Location**:Saskatoon or Regina, SK
**Number of Positions**:1
**Salary**:$84,421 - $112,560 (dependent on education and experience)
**Type of Position**:Permanent Full Time
**Closing Date**:12/04/2024

**Competition Comments**:This position is considered a Technical Career Path (TCP) position within SaskTel’s Technical Career Path Program. The program provides a parallel career path for technical management employees that promotes and supports the development of the high performance work environment critical to SaskTel's success. SaskTel’s Technical Career Path Program offers an opportunity to progress to higher salary bands.** This position may be located in Saskatoon or Regina.**

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Are you passionate about technology, customer success, and innovation? Join SaskTel's Business Solutions division as a Technical Sales Consultant for our Innovation and Collaboration team, where you’ll be at the forefront of an Innovation Framework that discovers, tests, validates and delivers new solutions for our customers. This dynamic role positions you as a trusted advisor for cutting-edge TechCo services in IOT, data & analytics, AI, and automation - pivotal areas shaping the future of how businesses operate, and key areas of focus for SaskTel’s future growth.

To learn more about this role, please check out the job description below. We have also included a link below to learn more about our Collaboration and Innovation team at SaskTel

Business | Collaboration and Innovation Team | SaskTel

**LEADERSHIP ACCOUNTABILITIES**
**People**
1. Leads, directs and manages staff to ensure the effective use of HR resources. Maximizes performance by selecting (hire external or promote from within), developing, mentoring and sustaining a high level of expertise among staff. Organize and direct work including prioritizing assignments, establishing objectives, providing regular performance feedback, conducting year end performance appraisals and taking necessary corrective action as may be required. Assists in staff career planning, establishes development and succession plans and ensures relevant HR procedures and policies are followed (provisions of the collective agreement, performance appraisals, discipline, grievance, etc). Accountable for provisioning and managing contracted resources as
may be required.
2. Accountable for promoting a productive and positive environment for staff that encourages innovation, teamwork, initiative and models corporate values. Motivates staff by assigning challenging work, planning and managing internal communications and awareness of corporate direction, mission, plans and activities.
3. Ensures all safety, health, environmental and code of conduct policies, programs and standards are understood and complied with at all times.
4. Proactively identify and action opportunities to increase customer satisfaction (internal and external customers).
**Financial**
1. Ensure sound financial control within area of responsibility by developing annual operating and capital budgets, monitoring performance to budget and taking action as appropriate. Develops, negotiates and implements contracts for acquisition of goods & services related to area of responsibility.
**Innovation**
1. Accountable to research, develop, define and implement innovative long and short term plans, policies and objectives. Provides expertise to senior management providing education, studies and consulting on opportunities that will impact business strategy. Ensures alignment and integration with the corporate strategic plan and develops plan and operational metrics, including approaches for demonstrating business value.
2. Accountable to proactively identify and action opportunities to improve revenue and growth initiatives, decrease costs, increase customer service levels and increase employee engagement.
3. Accountable to develop opportunities to spark innovation in technology or product service delivery or process improvements.

**SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES**
1. Accountable for providing the Sales Account Teams with general product support and in a technical capacity such customer-facing activities as technical qualification of sales opportunities; development and definition of sales strategies and sales propositions, and promotion of SaskTel’s business solutions to customers. This involves interfacing with and developing relationships with customers' technical personnel and middle and upper management.
2. Accountable for driving opportunity engagement profitability from pursuit to delivery. This involves managing opportunity risk and may include managing SaskTel partnerships.
3. Working collaboratively with Sales, accountable for sales funnel development from technical qualification to close of sales opportunities, and specifically for assisting in the achievement of revenue targets for the applicable portfolio assigned.
4. Develops and maintains expertise