Strategic Pursuit Sales Specialist

Our Company

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Role Overview

The Strategic Pursuit teams mission is to drive Adobes long-term revenue growth and profitability through larger and more strategic customer transformation commitments with Adobe by orchestrating Strategic Pursuit resources coaching advising and enabling sales teams partners and customers on our Solutions for business outcomes and value-based selling strategies. Strategic Pursuit Specialists drive this effort by turning early opportunity insights into practical commercial strategies. They also align customers and partners and make sure Adobe completes each project with financial credibility and consistency.

What Youll Own

• Opportunity Insight & Risk Alignment

Collaborate with account and SPP using insights regarding customer drivers risk indicators contracts and transformation themes to provide early clarity across Adobe and with customers. Ensure pursuit teams start commercial discussions aligned on opportunity framing risks and value levers that impact deal strategy.

• Baseline Validation & Utilization Clarity

Validate internal and customer perspectives on spend usage entitlements and product adoption. Facilitate alignment sessions that build a shared commercial baseline illuminate gaps and opportunities and establish fiscal and contractual clarity required for an informed strategic pursuit.

• Discovery Leadership & Customer POV Integration

Guide discovery discussions with customers to identify business goals verify priorities and align differing viewpoints between customer and Adobe teams. Convert customer language into practical commercial inputs making sure demand validation connects directly to business-case reasoning and value narratives.

• Commercial Architecture & Deal Structuring

Build custom commercial structures that balance customer flexibility with Adobes growth strategy. Develop scenario models investment paths pricing logic and terming frameworks tailored to the customers transformation roadmap. Ensure all constructs are grounded in customer value financially sound and aligned with SPL Finance Legal and procurement.

• Negotiation Strategy & Execution Alignment

Serve as a frontline commercial partner throughout negotiation cycles. Develop negotiation strategy manage exceptions and refine commercial constructs in real time based on customer feedback. Align internal collaborators around customer decision criteria and ensure that Adobe shows up with preparedness consistency and unified leadership across all negotiation moments.

• Executive Storytelling & Transformation Partnership

Act as Adobes commercial storyteller. Translate complex commercial structures into simple persuasive executive narratives tailored to customer C-suite procurement and finance. Build companion materials that articulate value structure investment logic and transformation outcomes. Guide multi-step transformation planning and serve as a trusted commercial advisor throughout the pursuit lifecycle.

• Proficiencies & Behavioral Signals

- Strategic Clarity - Simplifies complexity interprets TOP insights with precision frames decisions around customer outcomes and provides clear structured commercial mentorship.

- Commercial Rigor - Demonstrates depth in financial modeling pricing logic scenario analysis deal architecture and policy interpretation.

- Relationship Intelligence - Builds trust quickly with cross-functional teams and customer collaborators. Navigates differing perspectives with composure and empathy.

- Ecosystem Leadership - Mobilizes and aligns resources across the pursuit ecosystem (SPLs Specialists COE Finance Legal Product and Partners) driving predictable engagement and accountability.

- Customer-Centric Execution - Centers interactions on value clarity and mutual accountability. Communicates with integrity confidence and business outcome focus.

- Operational Field - Runs a structured pursuit rhythm with accuracy follow-through and consistency. Brings order and stability to ambiguity.

- Continuous Learning & Commercial Enablement - Demonstrates proficiency in pricing tools scenario modeling financial frameworks and policies while embracing continuous skill development. Helps elevate peers through shared findings.

What Makes You Successful

You bring commercial acumen operational steadiness and clear communication to every phase of the pursuit. You translate insights into action guide customers through complex decisions and build confidence through your preparation and presence. You unify cross-functional resources anticipate downstream risks and develop commercial strategies that are credible strategic and executable.

You represent the One SPP operating model - making sure Adobe appears as a unified structured transformation-oriented collaborator in every interaction.

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