Role Description
As Senior Director of Sales, you are responsible for leading our business strategy for long term growth by developing the sales strategy for the business. You will have a focus on sales effectiveness, developing talent and creating rich customer partnerships that will drive growth in our businesses.
The role is highly cross-functional and requires a candidate that enjoys navigating ambiguity, working in a fast-paced environment, aligning executive stakeholders, and collaborating with geographically dispersed teams. You are a highly visible leader that will create a results-oriented, innovative, best-in-class sales organization.
Core Responsibilities
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Achieving strong year over year bookings results to drive organic growth for the business
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Actively leading demand generation activities to develop and grow your sales pipeline
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Setting, meeting, and exceeding quarterly and yearly sales quotas and objectives
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Partnering with Product and Marketing to ensure your sales team is executing the product strategies for our business by incorporating necessary actions into account plans and sales activity
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Creating a sales culture that is focused on customer experience
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Continuously monitoring, and pivoting the sales coverage model (patches, resources, account teams etc.) as necessary based on sales projections and results β to achieve strong ROI on Sales investment
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Measuring, coaching, mentoring, and top-grading the sales team to ensure targets are met, and surpassed
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Reporting on sales progress, activity, highlights, lowlights, and insights on a monthly basis
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Establish and reinforce sales guidance and policy as it pertains to the consultative selling process, account planning, and the data that needs to be captured as a result
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Scrubbing your sales data (predominantly Salesforce) to ensure accuracy as far out as 12 months
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Managing escalations from our customers and the sales team effectively by working with your peers and taking decisive action, as appropriate
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Managing the team responsible for all proposal development (RFPs, Sole Source, etc.)
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Performing deep market research and competitor analysis to enable the evolution of our sales practices
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Managing and participating in all marketing-related events, trade shows, and campaigns to build a strong reputation and brand
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Working collaboratively with peers to ensure customer needs are met and addressed
Qualifications
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Minimum seven (7) years of work experience in leading sales teams in software/technology companies, in a customer facing role
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Prior experience managing a P&L
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Bachelors/Masters in Sales, Business or Marketing
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Effective presentation ability to influencers, senior executives, and industry audiences
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Ability to travel up to 50%, globally
Benefits
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Health Benefits: Life Insurance, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability Coverage as well as Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage options for you and your family
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Financial Perks: Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Company Bonus Plan, Referral Bonus Program, Computer Purchase Plan, Discounts for home/auto insurance
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Work-life balance: Company-paid Holidays, Vacation, and Personal Time Off. Flexible working hours policy. Work from home options available (Some restrictions apply)
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Professional Development: Employee education and development program that includes 100% tuition fees and book reimbursement (Some restrictions apply)
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Office perks: Social events, complimentary beverages, team building events, and new and modern office space
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Employee Assistance: This program provides counseling and wellness services
Worker Type
Regular
Number of Openings Available
1