Jocelyn
My background
I had the opportunity to go to California for a year to learn English when I was 17. Make no mistake, I didn’t end up with a family in Los Angeles, but in Hughson, a small Cowboy town with 5,000 inhabitants and just as many acres of farmland. As well as learning English, above all I learned to communicate and adapt to an environment very different from my own.
Back in France, I passed my A-level and headed off to the preparatory school in Dijon. From there I immediately discovered a passion for negotiating notes during my regular oral exams and less for solving theorems and their corollaries.
Following the competitive entrance exams, I was admitted to Télécom SudParis, which is located on the same campus as a business school (IMTBS). I chose this school because I wanted to pursue a more economic and commercial orientation. After 2 years in the core curriculum, I was lucky enough to join the International Business Engineering master and learn the nuts and bolts of doing business in a company.
Freshly graduated, I joined NetXP, now Almond, on September 1, 2016 to work as a business engineer.
My missions
I am responsible for a portfolio of customers of all sizes (CAC 40, intermediate-size companies, SME) and from all sectors (Luxury, Banking, Energy, Insurance etc…). In this context, my main missions are as follows:
ACCOUNT GROWTH
- Expand our business with existing customers: strengthen relationships with existing principals and discover new ones.
- Diversify Almond’s activities at the customer’s site: develop all Almond’s offerings, discover new projects…
PROSPECTION
- Contact prospects to promote Almond
- Presenting Almond’s offerings and DNA
DEVELOPMENT OF COMMERCIAL OFFERS
- Draw up bids and commercial offers in On Site Work mode (commitment to means) and Fixed-price mode (commitment to results)
- Define objectives, approach and deliverables in tandem with a pre-sales consultant
- Propose one or more participants, a schedule, a budget estimate
- Send and track response
- Supporting, negotiating and contracting
REFERRALS
- Take charge of the referencing process with key account customers by compiling referencing files
- Convincing principals: conducting lobbying actions, monitoring relations with purchasing departments
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY
- Help offer managers and BU managers to formalize the offer, address customers and report needs
- Participate in company’s development: professional events (forums, afterworks, etc.) and brainstorming sessions.