The Opportunity
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The Sales Specialist is a quota-bearing role responsible for driving growth across NCC Group’s propositions with a key focus on Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR). Working in close partnership with Client Executives, Account Managers, Sales Engineering, Portfolio and Delivery to help assess, develop, shape and drive pre-qualified proposition opportunities across tier-1, enterprise and mid-market customers - bringing commercial insight, market understanding, and strategic influence to develop and close executable, profitable business. The Sales Specialist ensures NCC Group’s propositions are positioned to deliver measurable client outcomes while maintaining pricing discipline and delivery feasibility.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Deal Support & Advisory
1. Provide deep propositions expertise in services offerings to support teams during customer engagements, RFPs, and proposal development.
2. Partner with Client Executives and Account Managers to craft tailored value propositions aligned to client-specific challenges and industry trends.
3. Collaborate with Sales Engineering and Solutions Architecture teams to validate scope, feasibility, and commercial structure.
4. Lead or contribute to customer-facing presentations, workshops, and strategy sessions where deep service credibility and trust are paramount.
5. Ownership of the pricing strategy, contract structure and commercial risk to maximise competitive offering and win rate.
6. Track and influence pipeline development in key accounts and support progression through critical deal stages.
7. Act as a bridge between Sales and Product/Delivery to communicate market feedback and inform portfolio evolution.
8. Support internal training and enablement efforts by mentoring account teams and sharing insights on emerging trends, competitors, and technologies.
9. Run and orchestrate campaigns to boost business in area of expertise.
Technical Skills
10. Experienced with contracts (SOWs, MSAs, SLAs) and commercial structures.
11. Strong understanding of Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) to include SOC/SIEM, Threat Intelligent and Threat Management, Identity and Access Management, Attack Surface Management, EDR, DFIR, OT/IT security and NDR.
12. Knowledgeable in global security and compliance frameworks including GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001, and how they map to managed services and advisory offerings.
13. Adept at aligning commercial, technical, and operational components into cohesive MXDR and cyber‑resilience value propositions, ensuring strong narratives across presales, delivery, and customer success.
14. Knowledge of Microsoft, Splunk and Sentinel One technologies would be beneficial but not essential.
Commercial & Business Case Development
15. Develop and refine business cases and ROI models that demonstrate client value and align with commercial strategy.
16. Ensure proposals maintain pricing discipline, margin integrity, commercial compliance, and delivery readiness.
17. Support the development of strategic deal frameworks and reusable assets
Enablement & Collaboration
18. Partner with account managers as one team to pursue and close complex opportunities.
19. Coach sales teams on best practices for opportunity qualification, complex deal structuring and execution.
Functional Skills
20. Leads complex cybersecurity deals, balancing client needs, risk, and profitability.
21. Builds strong commercial models and business cases.
22. Trusted advisor to senior stakeholders; supports high level negotiations.
23. Coaches account teams on positioning complex services.
So, what’s next?