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Regional Sales Director- Media, Travel & Hospitality
Salesforce
London, , United Kingdom
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Department description:
The Regional Sales Director role (RSD), reports to the Regional Vice President (RVP) for Enterprise, and will be based in our Salesforce office in London. This leader will lead a sales team recognized for high-growth, long term sustainable success and it's commitment to Salesforce values: Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, Giving Back, Fun, Equality, Wellness and Transparency
Your Impact:
• Maintain and improve the Enterprise Business Unit differentiated value and drive year-on-year growth in our business through growing sales in our existing customer base and developing & executing strategies for landing new customers.
• Drive long term employee success with a focus on coaching, development, and building a high performance team
• Align and coordinate product, customer success, and services teams to deliver incredible success for our customers
• Use and scale best practice from across the wider EMEA region and Salesforce business
Responsibilities
• Position the team to grow successfully beyond its current targets, increasing the revenue of the team year on year.
• Operating in a high-growth environment, this will likely be achieved by:
• Defining a clear and compelling plan
• Effective prioritisation
• Translating business objectives into specific goals for the given area
• Identifying new opportunities in industry verticals and driving expansion into them
• Utilising internal and external C level resources to build a compelling, consistent vision for our customers
• Cross-functional engagement with Sales, Marketing, Sales Engineering, Partner Alliances, Services & Employee Success.
• Defining a clear and compelling annual plan, driving a culture of strong execution, orientation towards developing new customer accounts, expanding existing ones and ensuring high retention rates on existing accounts.
• Managing the ESMB AE's to help drive and close both strategic/complex deals as well as regular run rate smaller deals.
• Development of the team, including recruiting, hiring and training new account executives on the sales process.
• Driving operational rigour:
• Overseeing the full cycle of sales: from developing sales campaigns, demand generation.
• Weekly, monthly, quarterly forecast meetings, business reviews, monitoring of the sales activity of the team, and tracking of results.
The Candidate
• A sales manager with a proven, successful background in sales, ideally extensive IC or sales management in the Media, Travel & Hospitality technology domain, and in building, inspiring and motivating a team of Account Executives. Day-to-day, driving and managing a sales team with a strong cadence of deal closure on a monthly and quarterly basis; track record of consistent over-achievement of quota and revenue goals.
• Strategic sales experience and revenue achievement selling multiple SaaS offerings, while building satisfied, loyal and referenceable customers.
• Consultative sales skills and ability to construct and articulate strong business case and ROI, strategic account planning and execution skills.
• A belief that the team should be recognised as much for it's culture as for it's results.
• Can demonstrate examples of inspiring new and existing customers to commit to a journey of transformation, utilising technology as a platform.
• Proven record of sales success in the Marketing or CRM domain
• Solid understanding of PaaS/SaaS & business value selling
• Excellent presentation and executive engagement skills
• Excellent Business Management and Sales Skills
• A self-starter that can thrive in a fast paced environment