Head Sales Job Description

Head Sales Job Description

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Head sales provides technical training (CRM systems - JDE, mPower, SIOP, and other tools/systems) and skill set development (communication, negotiation skills, market management, etc.).

Head Sales Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Develop a World Class Branch Operating Model, including sales, service, operations, variable plans and controls, providing leadership across Barclays Africa (BA) in implementing this model
Focus the strategy to deliver maximum impact through every distribution point (such as Branch, ATM)
Drive Cross-sell (insurance to liabilities/payroll to commercial, ) and upsell across Segments (Premier& Standard), Commercial, Cards
Run optimization models for the network to determine best locations, staffing levels
Coach colleagues and fulfil the line manager responsibilities such as being an escalation point for staff grievances, recognising and reward the right behaviours
Manage a bi-coastal team of Divisional Sales Managers and Internal Sales Professionals (approx
The HOIS promote compliance with regulatory and risk requirements for customers
Responsible for overall performance of Sales in North Europe
Liaise with relevant senior internal stake holders
Develop annual plans, monthly estimates and OTB risks & opportunities

Head Sales Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for Head Sales

List any licenses or certifications required by the position: NISM, AMFI, PMP, PM, HQ, BPI, CFA, FX, HRCI, SHRM

Education for Head Sales

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the head sales job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Business, MBA, Marketing, Business/Administration, Engineering, Management, Education, Finance, Economics, Graduate

Skills for Head Sales

Desired skills for head sales include:

Commercial process areas
UK life insurance protection market and regulatory environment
Various CRM systems like salesforce.com
Ability to make trade-off based decisions
Ability to translate strategy to initiatives
Business situations requiring training
CRM and other sales and financial systems
Cement and adjacent market sector
Cement and steel sector
Channel management

Desired experience for head sales includes:

English business fluent Swiss-German and French essential
Availability to travel throughout Switzerland as necessary
Occasional travel beyond Switzerland
Gather and maintain intelligence on size of market, competitor performance
European language skills (German)
Experience of working with a US based company

Head Sales Examples

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Head Sales Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a head sales. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for head sales
  • Coordinate the effort in the rest of geographies (Europe and Asia), who will maintain a direct report to him
  • Present and defend trades in front of CIB risk committees
  • Be responsible for the budget that the team has globally (around 120mm eur)
  • Establish and maintain strategic relationships with key partners in the wireless, sensor, semiconductor, and systems integration sectors to help keep up-to-date knowledge of the industry the competitive posture of the company
  • Strong interpersonal skills in order to work in direct coordination with the Corporate Relationship Management Officers/Team., DCM, global lending, credit, legal and onboarding departments
  • Talk about sports all day!
  • Manage a “recruiting list” of potential college prospects to identify those who might have the ability to compete collegiately
  • Establish realistic expectations with the family and act as a third-party to verify the recruit’s academic and athletic stats for college coaches
  • Become a recruiting expert and trusted advisor
  • Work hand in hand with a team of Scouts who are responsible for pre-qualifying families and scheduling them for a full recruiting evaluation with you
Qualifications for head sales
  • Knowledge about QE & QFMA regulations
  • Strong knowledge of both of the Payment Industry and of the e-commerce market in the region
  • Ability to juggle a large number of business deals and priorities
  • A team player with great interpersonal and communication skills
  • Fluency Swedish and English is essential
  • Manage client relationships from lead to live and onwards in conjunction with Account Management
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of head sales. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for head sales
  • You have a deep understanding of the digital ecosystem and trends around digital, programmatic, video best practices, opportunities, and challenges
  • You have an understanding and expertise in account planning, strategic planning, and media buying within digital, video & audio environment
  • You have an existing network of senior level contacts in media and marketing
  • You have leadership experience with successful management skills
  • You have strong East Coast based Agency & Brand relationships
  • Partner with Category and Product Management teams to provide customer perspective and engagement opportunities, customer-driven product improvement ideas
  • Exceeding sales targets through new business within our strong base of existing clients and targeting net new gambling and online gaming clients
  • Leading to development of a team of sales personnel who manage and create new business
  • Creation and maintenance of Strategic Account Plans for opportunities that make it past initial qualification stage
  • Maintaining CRM in line with corporate policies, providing regular reports to sales management as required
Qualifications for head sales
  • Demonstrated network of client relationships within major TMC and airlines in UK
  • Proven record in generating revenue via large dollar deals or via multiple smaller-sized deals
  • Demonstrated experience in developing sales, revenue enhancement and/or cost improvement strategies
  • Former college athlete strongly preferred
  • Passionate about sports and helping people
  • 4+ years of professional career experience, ideally in a sales role
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a head sales. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for head sales
  • Ensure detailed and accurate qualification of advertisers in online retail, travel and classifieds verticals
  • Provide effective team management and development, delivering consistent achievement against specific aggressive targets
  • Full prospect pipeline management and reporting of new business sales
  • Effective mentorship in team’s pipeline of prospective advertisers to deliver against new business targets
  • Assesses teams’ dynamics to get the best out of teams and the individuals within them
  • Shares business information to the team and cascades as appropriate
  • Constantly develops plans to increase customer service and thereby client loyalty
  • Monitors quality levels within the customer service process and agreed service level agreements
  • Seeks regular client feedback on quality and performance
  • Is effective in balancing the needs of the client with the needs of the business
Qualifications for head sales
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to converse with management, internal departments, with clients/agencies, ensuring everyone always feels in the loop
  • Is a team player and works hard to support the greater goal of the team
  • Goal oriented and assertive
  • Some experience in managing projects
  • Positive, enthusiastic, proactive and good with people
  • Located in Dublin
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of head sales. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for head sales
  • In this role you are accountable for local sales success in the Dutch market and all activities related to this
  • You will be working on new business acquisition process of Local National, Multinational and Global accounts across the country and region
  • Acquiring, managing and developing talents through active coaching while giving due consideration to performance management principles
  • Maintaining a deep understanding of salesforce.com functionality, data and processes to provide support and monitor sales activity on a continuous basis
  • Support on Business Unit Review (BUR) and European senior leadership presentations
  • Ensure the DC/cloud sales strategy ensuring global strategic objectives are met and create turn-around solutions to ensure that sales plans are met
  • Coordinate the activities of the pre-sales and country teams, taking ownership of the full sales cycle
  • Develop and maintain strong client relationships and conduct buyer centric sales conversations to ensure favourable pricing and protect margins
  • Ensure access to relevant sales tools and methodologies to manage account opportunities, pipeline and forecasting efforts
  • Coach and mentor the sales/pre-sales teams to ensure that standards for client engagement is adhered to and sales targets are met
Qualifications for head sales
  • Confident in working with a roadmap and delivering against objectives and deadlines
  • A creative thinker and ideas generator to understand how MR PORTER can improve its service to our customer and be a market leader
  • Constantly seeks to improve ways of working, processes and tools
  • A strong people manager and leader
  • Able to establish credibility by demonstrating knowledge and enthusiasm
  • Competition knowledge
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of head sales. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for head sales
  • Achieve budgeted P&L and sales revenue targets
  • Innovate and create compelling methods to grow our hosting revenue
  • Work with Director of Technology to form strategy and roadmap for hosting
  • Work with our hosting providers and look to build new partners where appropriate
  • Develop an effective sales strategy for the assigned market that ensures attainment of company sales goals and revenue targets set annually
  • Develop and execute a pro-active client calling program in order to build relationships with decision makers with key prospects
  • Engage at senior executive level and also facilitate an executive level calling program for the market for the banks executives
  • Leverage existing relationships to execute against sales plans and collaborate with the Client Solutions team to create effective solutions for clients based on a solution orientated sales approach and support enquiries and leads from other business areas and client groups
  • Drive our broader asset servicing strategy for the region/ market, contributing to product development based on changing client needs
  • Drive all key commercial & risk aspects of the new business cycle, including all legal, financial, compliance and risk aspects of bringing new business into the bank
Qualifications for head sales
  • 5-10 years proven sales experience successfully selling e-commerce payments services to corporate clients ideally in the gaming sector
  • Demonstrable achievement of sales targets in the payments PSP/gateway/acquiring space)
  • Thorough understanding of the PSP and acquiring market and the broader payments sector
  • Proven capabilities in building sustainable new revenue streams from new clients
  • Exposure to, or experience of, formal / structured sales processes
  • 10+ year experience including previous experience as an Area Sales Director/Regional Sales Director (pharmaceutical industry) coupled with deep cross functional experience in commercial -- preferably brand marketing but will consider deep experience in payer marketing, sales operations, training

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