About this role
Cyber-Security Solutions & GTM Specialist
- As a global leading-edge solutions provider, inq. prides itself in providing innovative, business-relevant services in Edge AI and IoT, Fabric, SDN/NFV for Edge Cloud, Secure Access Services Edge and Elastic Edge.
Cyber-Security Solutions & GTM Specialist
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience
- Location Lagos
- Job Field ICT / Computer
Job Description
Cybersecurity Commercial Strategy & Market Development
- Support the development and execution of the Company's cybersecurity commercial strategy in alignment with the broader Commercial & GTM strategy.
- Identify cybersecurity market opportunities that align with the Company's capabilities, target customers and strategic direction.
- Monitor emerging cybersecurity trends, customer requirements, industry developments and evolving security needs.
- Translate market developments and customer challenges into potential commercial opportunities.
- Identify priority cybersecurity solutions, capabilities and services required to strengthen the Company's market proposition.
- Provide market and commercial insights to support decisions on cybersecurity portfolio development and investment.
- Support the identification of new market segments, customer use cases and revenue opportunities for cybersecurity services.
Cybersecurity Solution & Proposition Development
- Support the development, packaging and positioning of cybersecurity solutions for the market.
- Translate technical cybersecurity capabilities into clear customer propositions and business value.
- Develop solution concepts, use cases and value propositions based on identified customer and market needs.
- Work with Technology to understand available cybersecurity capabilities and translate them into market-ready solutions. Identify gaps between customer requirements and existing capabilities and recommend appropriate solutions, partnerships or capability development.
- Support the development of commercial models and propositions for new cybersecurity offerings.
- Ensure cybersecurity propositions are relevant, commercially viable and aligned with the Company's broader technology and digital portfolio.
- Contribute to the continuous refinement of cybersecurity offerings based on customer feedback, market intelligence and commercial performance.
Customer & Business Engagement
- Provide cybersecurity expertise during strategic customer engagements and business development activities.
- Engage with customers to understand their cybersecurity challenges, priorities and business requirements.
- Translate customer requirements into relevant cybersecurity solution opportunities.
- Support Sales teams in identifying cybersecurity opportunities within existing and prospective customer relationships.
- Participate in customer discovery sessions, solution workshops, presentations and relevant executive engagements.
- Develop customer-facing cybersecurity narratives, solution presentations, use cases and value propositions.
- Provide relevant cybersecurity insights to help customers understand potential solutions and business outcomes.
- Identify opportunities to expand cybersecurity relationships across the Company's existing customer base.
Sales & Go-to-Market Enablement
- Partner with Sales to identify, qualify and develop cybersecurity opportunities.
- Support the development of cybersecurity sales plays, account propositions and go to-market initiatives.
- Develop sales enablement materials, solution briefs, presentations, use cases and other commercial collateral.
- Support Sales teams in positioning cybersecurity solutions against customer requirements.
- Provide cybersecurity input into proposals, RFPs, RFIs, tenders and other business development opportunities.
- Support the development of solution and commercial responses for cybersecurity opportunities.
- Contribute to opportunity qualification and prioritisation.
- Track relevant cybersecurity opportunities and provide visibility on pipeline development, key opportunities and potential risks.
- Identify opportunities for cross-selling and upselling cybersecurity solutions across existing customer relationships.
Technology & Solution Alignment
- Work closely with the Technology function to understand the Company's cybersecurity capabilities, technical roadmap and delivery capacity.
- Translate customer and commercial requirements into relevant cybersecurity solution requirements.
- Ensure proposed cybersecurity solutions are aligned with the Company's technical capabilities and delivery model.
- Collaborate with Technology and relevant technical teams during solution development and customer engagements.
- Identify technical capability gaps arising from customer and market requirements and escalate these for appropriate consideration.
- Support solution design discussions where cybersecurity expertise is required.
- Contribute commercial and customer insights to the development of cybersecurity capabilities.
- Maintain sufficient understanding of cybersecurity technologies and solutions to effectively connect technical capability with customer and business requirements.
Product Operations & Go-to-Market Collaboration
- Work closely with Product Operations and GTM to integrate cybersecurity solutions into the Company's broader portfolio.
- Identify opportunities to combine cybersecurity with existing network, cloud, digital and technology solutions.
- Contribute cybersecurity insights to product and proposition development discussions.
- Support the development of go-to-market plans for cybersecurity offerings.
- Provide input into product positioning, target customer segments, use cases and commercial propositions.
- Support the evaluation of cybersecurity offerings based on customer demand, adoption and commercial performance.
- Collaborate with relevant functions to ensure cybersecurity propositions are appropriately positioned and ready for market execution.
Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Development
- Identify cybersecurity technology providers and potential strategic partners that can enhance the Company's market offering.
- Evaluate partnership opportunities based on customer demand, technical capability, commercial viability and strategic fit.
- Support the development and activation of cybersecurity partnerships.
- Work with the Partnerships function to develop joint propositions and routes to market.
- Support partner-led customer engagements and go-to-market initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to leverage third-party capabilities where these address customer requirements or accelerate the Company's cyberse