As a Commercial Solutions and Pricing Architect, you will play a pivotal role in developing competitive commercial strategies, structuring complex bids, and designing tailored IT service solutions for enterprise customers. You will act as a key link between Sales, Operations, Procurement, and technical teams, ensuring that proposed solutions are commercially viable, operationally effective, and aligned with customer expectations. The role combines pricing strategy, supplier management, contract negotiation, and end-to-end bid leadership within a global IT services environment. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage commercial risks, optimize costs, and identify opportunities to improve profitability and business performance. Working with international customers and partners, you will help shape compelling proposals and guide opportunities from initial qualification through contract signature. This fully remote opportunity is ideal for a strategic, commercially minded professional with strong expertise in IT services, complex solution design, and stakeholder management.
Commercial Strategy and Pricing: Partner with Sales and Operations to develop and implement commercial and pricing strategies, ensuring solution teams remain aligned with business objectives, profitability targets, and departmental priorities.
Cost Optimization and Savings: Identify sourcing opportunities that maximize commercial value, reduce operating costs, and strengthen competitiveness. Quantify, track, and document savings while maintaining appropriate commercial and contractual protections.
Bid and Tender Management: Lead complex and strategic bids from initial opportunity assessment through proposal submission and contract signing, applying structured project management methodologies to meet customer deadlines and business requirements.
Solution Design and Commercial Feasibility: Develop solution scopes, objectives, resource estimates, and pricing models. Validate supplier costs, assess operational processes, review solution designs, and ensure proposals are technically deliverable and commercially sustainable.
Supplier and Contract Management: Support contract negotiations and administration, strengthen supplier relationships, and manage sourcing strategies, supplier performance, and commercial terms to minimize business risks.
Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Coordinate virtual bid teams comprising Sales, Operations, Subject Matter Experts, Procurement, Service Management, and other stakeholders. Allocate responsibilities, provide clear direction, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality contributions.
Customer Engagement: Collaborate with business developers and account managers to understand customer requirements, participate in customer meetings, develop compelling value propositions, and maintain alignment throughout the sales and contracting process.
Proposal Development and Quality Assurance: Establish clear win themes and ensure consistency across bid responses, customer presentations, tender documentation, and post-submission materials. Oversee final publication to ensure proposals meet or exceed customer expectations.
Commercial Risk and Governance: Identify, evaluate, and mitigate pricing, contractual, international trading, import, and legal risks. Ensure compliance with financial and commercial governance requirements and maintain appropriate documentation of approvals.
Strategic Opportunity Management: Support major opportunities requiring advanced bid and engagement management, including those escalated through formal sales pursuit reviews. Ensure the appropriate resources and expertise are available to develop competitive solutions.
Performance Analysis and Continuous Improvement: Conduct win/loss reviews, analyze commercial outcomes, and provide recommendations to senior management to improve bid effectiveness, supplier performance, pricing strategies, and future win rates.
International Solution Delivery: Coordinate complex service solutions involving multiple countries and external partners, including IT outsourcing, hardware deployment, service transitions, global audits, logistics, procurement, and stock management.