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Overview
Work history
Education
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Giuliana Farina Tercan

Giuliana Farina Tercan

Tongham,Surrey

Summary

A creative and commercially savvy Presales Professional with an extensive set of skills gained from 12 years of experience in various levels and roles.

Accustomed to driving progress in complex pre sales processes weather individually or as part of a team. Experienced in large strategic deals as well as smaller high volume types ensuring collaboration across organisations.
High-achieving management professional possessing excellent communication, organisational and analytical capabilities. Always driving innovative solutions to resolve business and technology challenges.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work history

Presales VP

Smartrecruiters
Remote, Surrey
2021.12 - Current

Leadership:

Currently serving as RVP, leading a team comprising Solution Consultants and Solution Architects.

Objective: Joined the organisation with a focus on building and developing the practice.

Priorities:

Emphasis on team development, continuous improvement, and collaboration with other teams.

Dedicated to achieving successful organisational results.

Increase win rate/ Attachment rate/ Increase ARR

Achievements:

Successfully developed and matured the organisation regionally and globally.

Culture of Practice Spirit

SalesForce Practice Building - Book of business ownership

Significantly enhanced the quality of work, close rates, influence, and creativity.

Established a robust and engaging customer and prospect value based experience

Sr. Presales Manager International

Adobe Workfront
London
2019.01 - 2021.12

Experience:

Leadership: Lead and mentor EMEA Adobe Workfront SME team

Priorities:

With nearly a decade in various roles within the Pre-sales domain, a specialist in Adobe Workfront products and processes, my priority was to mentor and ensure our team delivered the best engagement and experience to our customers and prospects.

Achievements:

  • Team satisfaction above company benchmark in several items
  • Higher overall ARR performance per SC
  • Value demo driven performance 100%
  • Increased inclusive and balanced pool of talent
  • Early stage technical win increase
  • 85% Influence gross ARR and 97% attach rate
  • Development of SC book of business to help guide sales

leadership on the true deal forecast story

Senior Presales Solution Consultant/ Team Lead

Adobe Workfront
London
2012.03 - 2019.01

Priorities:

1. Build credibility with prospects/ customers and tie solution value to customer's business process whilst coaching the team
2. Treat each opportunity as a unique selling motion and execute each meeting with an agreed upon strategy and plan. For strategic accounts, working with the wider team to ensure we have the appropriate close plan and strategy
3. Build deep trust with my internal ecosystem:sales leaders, Services, Partners, Client Champions and the SC global team to ensure we deliver great experience during the presales process

4. Build deep trust with the customer and ensure great experience through the sales process.

Achievements:

  • Increased Sales Revenue
  • Strategic Solution Mapping
  • Expertly led the team to succesfully increase close rates
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Technical Expertise
  • Effective Value driven Product Demos
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Up-selling and Cross-selling practice and Strategy
  • Customer Feedback to Product Integration
  • Multi Industry Market Expansion
  • Average close Rate 85%

Some key accounts I have supported include Dentsu, The Walt
Disney Companies, Vodafone, Burberry, Delloite, Dyson, Booking.com, Sky, BT, Lloyds Bank, Lego, Banco Santander

Awards:

MVP Awards

President's club

Senior Project Manager

Intralinks
London
2007.03 - 2012.06

Product expert, responsible for building and maintaining relationships with new and existing clients from Top Tier M&A, DCM, Life Sciences, Law Firms and Financial Institutions.

Whilst in Intralinks, I assisted with the hiring and mentoring a team of project managers to cover the Russian territory.

Regularly involved in the sales process by request of the sales team and was involved in securing the largest contract in Intralinks' history at the time as a hybrid presales/ PM

Achievements:

  • Determined project schedules and maintained timeline efficiency using proactive adjustments to workflow.
  • Built positive, productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders through outstanding client management skills.
  • Managed projects and deadlines as well as implementations.

Education

Travel and Tourism

Puc Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paulo
1997.01 - /1999

Skills

  • Relationship building
  • Programme oversight
  • Strategic consultancy
  • Revenue growth
  • Client acquisition
  • On-site product demonstrations
  • Staff training
  • Account retention
  • Product expertise
  • Product roadmapping
  • Proof of Concept evaluations
  • RFX responses
  • Thought leadership
  • Solutions engineering
  • Servant Leadership
  • Radical Candor
  • Golden Circle

Languages

English
Fluent
Portuguese
Native
Spanish
Intermediate
Italian
Elementary (A2)

Timeline

Presales VP - Smartrecruiters
2021.12 - Current
Sr. Presales Manager International - Adobe Workfront
2019.01 - 2021.12
Senior Presales Solution Consultant/ Team Lead - Adobe Workfront
2012.03 - 2019.01
Senior Project Manager - Intralinks
2007.03 - 2012.06
Puc Campinas - , Travel and Tourism
1997.01 - /1999
Giuliana Farina Tercan