Sales Specialist (UK/I) - Work & Service Management

Company Description

Working at The Adaptavist Group

The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.

We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.com and Aha!

We make change happen. From anywhere.

What we offer you

We offer a very generous holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team. We provide MacBooks to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices.

Our exceptional Time Away Policy includes 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS.

Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.

Read our full list of benefits

Job Description

About the role

The Sales Specialist – Service Management & Work Management is responsible for helping customers transform how work is coordinated, services are delivered, and organisations operate at scale.

This role acts as a specialist advisor focused on Enterprise Service Management, Work Management, Workflow Automation, AI-enabled Operations and Atlassian Cloud transformation.

This role requires a deep understanding of organisational operating models, service delivery frameworks and business process transformation.

The Sales Specialists work alongside Strategic Account Managers and partner teams to identify opportunities, shape customer transformation programmes and lead complex specialist engagements.

A successful Sales Specialist is recognised as a trusted advisor in service and operational transformation, helping customers modernise service delivery, improve organisational productivity, accelerate cloud adoption and unlock measurable business outcomes.

What you'll be doing

Specialist Pipeline Generation & Market Development

• Create and develop a specialist sales pipeline aligned to service management, work management and operational transformation initiatives.

• Identify, qualify and pursue opportunities across IT Service Management (ITSM), Enterprise Service Management (ESM), Work Management, Workflow Automation, AI-assisted Operations, Atlassian Cloud Transformation and Business Process Optimisation.

• Develop customer-specific hypotheses, transformation opportunities and executive points of view that align business challenges with strategic outcomes.

• Build and execute territory and account plans that drive sustainable pipeline growth and specialist revenue opportunities.

• Collaborate with Strategic Account Managers and Partner Managers to uncover opportunities within existing and prospective customers.

Customer Advisory & Transformation Consulting

• Engage with CIOs, COOs, Service Leaders, Transformation Leaders and other executive stakeholders to understand organisational priorities and challenges.

• Lead discovery workshops, value assessments and maturity assessments to identify opportunities for operational improvement and service transformation.

• Analyse customer operating models, service delivery processes and organisational bottlenecks to uncover improvement opportunities.

• Develop business cases, transformation roadmaps and outcome-based recommendations that support customer decision-making.

• Act as a trusted advisor, helping customers modernise service delivery, improve organisational productivity and accelerate digital transformation initiatives.

Opportunity Leadership & Sales Execution

• Own specialist sales opportunities from qualification through to successful closure.

• Apply MEDDPICC qualification methodology to ensure opportunity quality, forecasting accuracy and deal progression.

• Lead complex sales engagements involving multiple stakeholders, business units and technical requirements.

• Build compelling commercial proposals, transformation propositions and value-based business cases.

• Coordinate internal resources, including Strategic Account Management, Pre-sales, Delivery and Practice teams to create winning customer solutions.

• Conduct commercial negotiations and support contract discussions to achieve successful customer outcomes.

Partner Ecosystem Development

• Develop strategic relationships with Atlassian and broader ecosystem partners to drive joint pipeline creation and revenue growth.

• Execute co-sell motions and identify partner-led opportunities within target markets.

• Collaborate on joint go-to-market initiatives, campaigns and customer engagement strategies.

• Establish strong relationships with partner sales, solution engineering and leadership teams to maximise market impact.

Thought Leadership & Market Presence

• Maintain deep expertise in Service Management, Enterprise Service Management, Work Management, Workflow Automation, AI-enabled Operations and Cloud Transformation.

• Act as a recognised subject matter expert and trusted voice within customer engagements and industry discussions.

• Support customer events, executive briefings, webinars and industry forums.

• Develop market-facing insights, thought leadership content and points of view that position the organisation as a leader in operational transformation.

• Stay current with emerging industry trends, competitive developments and evolving customer challenges.

Qualifications

What we're looking for

• Proven experience selling enterprise software, consulting or transformation solutions.

• Strong knowledge of IT Service Management (ITSM) and Enterprise Service Management (ESM).

• Experience leading executive-level discovery conversations and customer workshops.

• Ability to build business cases, value propositions and transformation roadmaps.

• Demonstrable experience managing complex enterprise sales cycles.

• Experience applying structured sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC.

• Strong commercial negotiation, stakeholder management and influencing skills.

• Experience working with partner ecosystems and co-sell motions.

• Excellent presentation and communication skills with both technical and business audiences.

A few nice to haves

• Experience with Atlassian solutions and ecosystem partners.

• Knowledge of Work Management, Workflow Automation and AI-enabled Operations.

• Experience supporting cloud migration or cloud transformation programmes.

• Background in management consulting, transformation consulting or service management disciplines.

• Understanding of enterprise operating model design and organisational change initiatives.

Additional Information

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At ScriptRunner, part of TAG, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet.

Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

What to expect

We have published some support on Interviewing with us to try to alleviate any pre-interview anxieties, here you’ll find information to help you prepare and ace an interview at TAG.

You can read them here

Life at The Adaptavist Group

From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us.

Check out our WORK180 page

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We look forward to your application!

Equal opportunities for everyone

At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status.

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