Position Overview

As a License Compliance Inside Sales Representative you will work through a large volume of License Compliance leads and opportunities to close out. You will work with Autodesk sales teams (TSR teams), channel partners, legal, and other members of the License Compliance team on compliance matters. The License Compliance Inside Sales Representatives primary activity is discussing the (potential) compliance matter with customers, users and ensuring this leads to a commercial resolution.

A License Compliance Inside Sales Representative drives a high level of customer compliance engagements whether warning letters or audit activities, resolving compliance matters while retaining customers. You will also be responsible for meeting and forecasting quarterly and annual License Compliance sales goals within your territory.

Job's Workplace type is hybrid

You will report to the License Compliance Senior Manager, Middle East and Africa

Responsibilities

• Work through a large volume of license compliance leads speaking with customers to uncover the compliance issues, ensure customer understands the Intellectual Property or contractual violation at hand, negotiate a resolution and timeline and agree on a commercial closure
• Communicate directly with customers to negotiate a license compliance settlement value and timeline for purchase
• Initiate warning letters or audit requests with Autodesk customers and lead customer through the audit process
• Present audit findings to customers and negotiates on the resolution
• Use Autodesk License Compliance analytics tools and databases to investigate License Compliance prospects
• Engage customers at the CXO level to gain their cooperation and participation in License Compliance warning letter or audit process
• Unpopular results and messages and handle impassioned discussions and negotiations around non-compliance matters
• Reduce complex pushback by customers regarding the compliance situation
• Use Salesforce.com to track all leads, opportunities, activities and results following global License Compliance guidelines for closed loop tracking
• Use lead tracking tools to forecast compliance sales. Use Autodesk customer self-audit process document, targeted account selling, Situational Negotiation Skills and forecasting guidelines to categorize leads according to quality of the lead; forecast against plans and targets
• Assist Value Added Resellers in providing customer quotes to satisfy compliance purchases, proposals, order forms and product information
• Work with Territory Sales for cross-selling or up-selling
• Maintain basic knowledge of Autodesk products, competition and industry trends along with understanding project delivery methods
• Establish collaborative relationships with territory sales teams engaging them with compliance customers to assemble alternate proposals to resolve compliance issues

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience and comfort with communicating and negotiating at executive level
• At least 2 years of Inside Sales experience
• Successful track record in Software Sales
• A previous experience in License compliance
• Understanding of software licensing models, license agreements and contracts
• Proficient in using different CRM tools (i.e. Salesforce.com, Siebel)
• Business English

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