Head of Business Development, Transformation & Growth – IT Services &

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On-site Full Time
UAE , Abu Dhabi
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Job Details

Business Transformation and Strategy

  • Assess the company’s existing business model, service portfolio, organizational structure, capabilities, and financial performance.

  • Develop and execute a practical business transformation and growth plan.

  • Restructure the business into clearly defined and commercially accountable service lines.

  • Identify operational, commercial, technical, and organizational gaps.

  • Establish pricing models, margin requirements, sales processes, and performance indicators.

  • Work with management to develop annual budgets, revenue targets, and a three-year growth plan.

  • Monitor the profitability and scalability of each business line.


New Services and Business-Line Development

  • Identify and launch value-added services aligned with UAE market demand and regulatory developments.

  • Develop business lines in areas such as:

    • UAE eInvoicing and ERP compliance

    • Managed IT and cloud services

    • Cybersecurity and business continuity

    • Data privacy and compliance

    • Business-process automation and AI solutions

  • Convert technical capabilities into standardized, repeatable, and commercially viable service packages.

  • Prepare business cases, pricing, delivery models, and go-to-market plans for new services.

  • Evaluate whether new capabilities should be developed internally or delivered through strategic partners.


ERP Commercialization

  • Develop the commercial and go-to-market strategy for the company’s in-house ERP.

  • Define ERP packages, target sectors, licensing or subscription models, implementation fees, and annual support plans.

  • Identify priority sectors and develop industry-specific ERP solutions.

  • Lead ERP demonstrations, proposals, negotiations, and major customer engagements.

  • Work with the technical and implementation teams to establish a structured product roadmap.

  • Support integration with eInvoicing, cloud, cybersecurity, reporting, and automation solutions.


Business Development and Sales

  • Build and manage a qualified pipeline of corporate, enterprise, and government-related opportunities.

  • Personally lead major sales opportunities from prospecting through negotiation and closing.

  • Develop relationships with decision-makers, technology leaders, finance executives, and procurement stakeholders.

  • Cross-sell ERP, managed services, cybersecurity, cloud, and other solutions to existing outsourcing customers.

  • Establish disciplined CRM usage, forecasting, opportunity management, and sales reporting.

  • Develop proposals, presentations, commercial offers, and tender responses.

  • Recruit, develop, and manage the future business development and sales team.

  • Ensure that sales growth is profitable, collectible, and operationally deliverable.


Strategic Partnerships

  • Identify and establish partnerships with ERP, eInvoicing, cloud, cybersecurity, backup, AI, and other technology providers.

  • Negotiate commercial terms, recurring margins, customer ownership, and deal-registration protection.

  • Develop reseller, implementation, referral, and technology-integration partnerships.

  • Manage joint customer engagements and partner-led market-development activities.

  • Evaluate vendor performance and the commercial value of each partnership.


Customer Growth and Account Development

  • Introduce structured account management and customer-success practices.

  • Conduct strategic reviews with key customers to identify additional requirements.

  • Improve customer retention, contract renewal, and service adoption.

  • Develop recurring revenue through annual contracts, subscriptions, and managed services.

  • Ensure effective coordination between sales, presales, technical delivery, and customer support.

Desired Candidate Profile

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Marketing, or a related field; an MBA is an advantage.

  • Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in IT services, ERP, cloud, cybersecurity, digital transformation, or technology solutions.

  • At least 5 years in a senior business development, transformation, commercial, or business-unit leadership role.

  • Proven experience restructuring, establishing, or scaling an IT services or technology business.

  • Demonstrated success in generating and closing corporate or enterprise technology opportunities.

  • Strong understanding of IT outsourcing, managed services, ERP implementation, software commercialization, and recurring-revenue models.

  • Experience building new service lines, commercial packages, and go-to-market strategies.

  • Experience developing and managing technology partnerships.

  • Good understanding of the UAE technology market, regulatory environment, and corporate procurement landscape.

  • Experience with government or large-enterprise opportunities is an advantage.

  • Commercially strong, with experience in pricing, margins, budgeting, forecasting, and business-unit profitability.

  • Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and leadership skills.

  • Fluent English is required; Arabic is an advantage.

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