Quest Global · 2 months ago
Strategic Client Partner – Semiconductor VBU
Texas City, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior LevelQuest Global is a leading engineering services company specializing in the semiconductor industry. They are seeking a Strategic Client Partner to lead revenue and profit growth, develop customer relationships, and implement strategic account planning to enhance key accounts. The role involves managing proposals, expanding to new locations, and leading a matrixed team to achieve growth objectives.
ConsultingInformation ServicesOutsourcingSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead overall effort to grow VBU revenue and profit to emerge as a key strategic partner for all major accounts
Leverage existing customer relationships with engineering influencers and decision makers at both executive and mid-level manager levels
Develop and implement in-depth analysis and strategic account planning (StrAP) to identify key focus areas for growth including account headcount, competitive analysis, customer needs per engineering service area, differentiation, SWOT, Quest Global relationship summary and Quest Global capability gaps
Make key business decisions on which services/solutions to pursue and invest in
Identify and lead unsolicited, strategic campaigns to grow the account
Leverage Quest Global relationships, influence customer decision makers, monitor milestones, track action item progress and lead the campaign proposal effort
Lead and manage all solicited proposal responses for all new business services or customers
Develop plans and proposals to realize the revenue target from the account, quarter on quarter
Develop and implement plans to enter new geographies or divisions of key customer and other accounts as per the strategic account plan
Hold quarterly customer reviews, lead/author Account Branding Newsletters and other communications per Quest Global process
Leverage Quest Global best practices and from other accounts, to develop and operationalize plans to introduce new services to key account and other accounts
Lead efforts to create annual revenue and expense forecasts as well as monthly rolling revenue forecasts
Lead sales-delivery matrixed team for the customer
Coordinate efforts, hold weekly meetings and lead monthly report out to Quest Global Sales & Delivery executives
Identify, approve, and monitor internal investments for operations support to achieve target growth opportunities
Lead efforts to establish rates that leverage value pricing
Qualification
Required
Deep understanding of Semiconductor industry, with knowledge of end-to-end process for Silicon Engineering services, including T&M, ODC and Turnkey business models, as well as the Embedded Software engineering services adjacent to Silicon Engineering
Strong relationships with senior and mid-level technical managers at Semicon OEM who are the key influencers in silicon engineering
Strong experience in product management and business development in the semiconductor space and global experience in managing customers
Engineering knowledge and complete product life-cycle knowledge of Semiconductor organization
Engineering processes including design, both software & hardware – specific to the ASIC design flow
Architecture, RTL/FPGA prototyping, Physical Design, DFT, Verification & Validation, the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and its licensing and the Fabrication know-how
Challenges related to cost, delivery, schedule, or support
Internal funding process including timing, influencers and approvals
Outsourcing processes, funding, upcoming changes and leadership
Existing major outsourcing suppliers including SWOT
Understanding of relevant/adjacent technologies (especially EDA tools and licensing, system design and embedded services) and competitor's services
Sound track record of P&L ownership and proven ability to grow businesses profitably
Strong commercial skills and experience including selling process, negotiating, pricing, costing, discount structures, terms and conditions, sales strategy development, execution and sales proposal development
Experience in hiring, building and developing strong teams
Experience leading cross functional teams and working with global remote team / offshore delivery model environment
Experience with sales and account management and in developing strategic plans
Experience in authoring complex proposals; experienced in negotiating master service contracts and long-term agreements
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written and ability to communicate effectively at all levels
Bachelor's Degree – Engineering
Preferred
Master's degree/MBA – preferred
Formal training/experience in program management, negotiations and strategic selling
Aspiration, Humility, & Hunger
Strategic Thinking & Commercial Acumen
Innovation & Change leadership
Execution Excellence
Capability Building
Self-awareness
Agility
Company
Quest Global
Quest Global is an engineering solutions company that offers a range of services in the engineering and technology domains.
Founded in 1997
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.08BKey Investors
The Carlyle GroupChrysCapitalWarburg Pincus
2023-08-08Private Equity· $500M
2021-08-23Private Equity· $150M
2016-02-19Secondary Market· $350M
Leadership Team
Ajit Prabhu
Chairman & CEO
Rajendra Kumar Shreemal
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-12-25
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