ELEKS is looking for a
Customer Engagement Manager in Ukraine.
REQUIREMENTS
- 3+ years of relevant experience in Pre-Sales, Customer Engagement, Business Development, Consulting, Account Management, or a related client-facing role
- Proven experience working with customers throughout pre-sales or solution development activities
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholders
- Strong understanding of the proposal development process and experience contributing to or leading RFI/RFP responses and customer proposals
- Ability to understand customer business needs and facilitate the development of appropriate solutions together with business and technical experts
- Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills
- Ability to facilitate customer meetings, discovery sessions, and presentations
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage several engagements simultaneously
- Ability to identify and proactively manage risks, dependencies, and expectations
- Strong presentation and storytelling skills
- Upper-Intermediate or higher level of English, both written and spoken
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience in an IT services, consulting, or software development company
- Experience working with enterprise customers across different regions
- Understanding of software development and delivery processes
- Experience collaborating with Solution Architects, Delivery Managers, and technical teams during pre-sales
- Understanding of commercial aspects of software development engagements, including estimation and different engagement models
- Experience with proposal and knowledge management tools
- Hands-on experience using AI tools to support research, proposal development, knowledge management, or other pre-sales activities
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead customer engagements throughout the pre-sales lifecycle, from initial qualification and discovery to proposal development and handover to Delivery
- Understand customer business needs, challenges, objectives, and expectations and translate them into clear engagement requirements
- Partner with Business Development, Delivery, Solution Architects, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders to shape tailored business and technology solutions
- Coordinate cross-functional teams involved in pre-sales activities and ensure alignment between business, technical, and commercial aspects of the proposed solution
- Drive the preparation of high-quality proposals, presentations, RFI/RFP responses, and other customer-facing materials
- Facilitate customer discussions, discovery sessions, presentations, and other pre-sales activities
- Ensure timely delivery and consistent quality of pre-sales outputs
- Identify, assess, and manage engagement risks, dependencies, assumptions, and constraints
- Maintain clear and effective communication with customers and internal stakeholders throughout the engagement
- Ensure a smooth transition from the sales and pre-sales stages to project delivery
- Manage multiple customer engagements simultaneously across different regions and business domains
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of Customer Engagement and pre-sales practices
- Leverage AI-enabled tools to improve proposal quality, productivity, knowledge reuse, and customer experience
WHAT YOU WILL GET WITH ELEKS
- Close cooperation with a customer
- Challenging tasks
- Competence development
- Team of professionals
- Dynamic environment with low level of bureaucracy
ELEKS is a custom software development company. We deliver value to our clients, thanks to our expertise and experience gained from working as a software innovation partner since 1991.
Our 2000+ professionals located in the Delivery Centers across Eastern Europe and sales offices in Europe and North America, provide our clients with a full range of software engineering services. These include product development, QA, R&D, design, technology consulting and dedicated teams.