Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. We deliver award-winning enterprise software solutions through the use of embedded digital innovation and a single cloud-based platform to help businesses be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™.

At IFS, we're flexible, we're innovative, and we're focused not only on how we can engage with our customers, but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society's greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and accept that there are so many different perspectives in this world. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We're looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs.

If you want to change the status quo, we'll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

As the Global Director Business Value Engineering you will take responsibility and accountability to further develop the BVE practice at IFS.

The role requires the building of networks across the organization to ensure the successful project management, staff co-ordination, strategic oversight, coaching, team building, and quality review needed. Achieving this work will require passion, attention to detail and an understanding of how to drive excellence across teams.

Driving change within the business group, and across the organization, will require planning, change management and alignment with the wider transformation teams. As Business Value Engineering is already established in the company, you will need to ensure high quality execution and operational success of the relevant BVE methodology across sales, presales and into other functions (such as services).

As a Global Director in the Corporate team, you will be expected to devise strategies for sales, pre-sales and post sales to embed BVE disciplines throughout the entire lifecycle of a customer journey.

Essential Duties and Accountabilities

• Continuously optimize the BVE practice at IFS (strategy, roadmap, process, tooling)
• Lead a team of global BVE experts in a matrixed organization structure of a billion dollar company
• C-Level reporting internal to IFS (board packs and BVE activity tracking)
• Drive partner adoption of BVE discipline
• Champion our value realization approach in customer success engagements
• Guide and advise customers on value related topics at the C-suite level
• Drive adoption of BVE methods across all functions at IFS and our partner ecosystem
• Drive new initiatives to enhance tools and templates for accelerated best practice deployment
• Extend the IFS BVE Champions model to consulting teams and partners
• Drive Certification process, enhance certification program

What We’re Offering

Salary Range: $

• Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• 401K with Company contribution
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Tuition assistance
• Community involvement and volunteering events

Qualifications

Essential:

• Proven leadership skills
• Experience within a software business of a similar scale
• Experience in establishing a practice across functions
• Deep understanding of presales and sales methods and processes in a software company
• Fluency in English (verbal and written)
• Willingness to travel occasionally for strategic customer engagement, team meetings or company events

Desirable:

• Appropriate post graduate education, university degree, or equivalent professional qualifications, in a field relevant for the functional area or preferably, multiple years of experience in a software company within sales, presales or other customer facing group where value engineering was your primary skill requirement
• Desirable industry experience in a user environment
• Appropriate level of technical understanding (product knowledge is not a necessary requirement)

Additional Information

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. VEVRAA Federal Contractor, Equal Opportunity Employer