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Director of Sales, Talent Enterprise
Pearson
San Antonio, TX, United States
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Description
At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.
The Director of Sales is responsible to manage a team of approximately 7 Field Sales Representatives in achieving their individual sales quotas for the achievement of the overall sales quota. The role requires daily sales activity and sales metrics reporting and management. The role is a quota-carrying, Director of sales position within the Talent Assessment Team, with full sales responsibility and accountability within the field based territory sales representatives. The expectation is that this position will meet an assigned annual sales quota through the sale of all classroom assessment products. The Director, Sales is responsible for all sales from their field based sales representatives.
Key Duties:
60% Time Allocation: Sales Management and Leadership
1. Drive consistent achievement of monthly, quarterly, and annual sales and revenue quotas for the Mid-Market and Inside sales teams.
2. Set strategic sales direction and execution plan.
3. Provide daily leadership, strategic direction, and tactical guidance for the Mid-Market and Inside sales teams.
4. Drive closure of significant account deals and achieve quota.
5. Be actively involved with key customer sales calls to resolve customer questions and/or concerns, drive customer satisfaction, and grow revenue.
6. Lead the development and execution of all territory sales plans, territory deployment, and sales incentive elements of the Sales team.
7. Hold monthly all-hands business reviews, sales opportunity pipelines, and forecasting with entire sales team (i.e., sales operating rhythm).
8. Ensure sales representatives are meeting their monthly, quarterly, and annual sales metrics and quotas.
9. Up to 75% of time spent traveling as needed by the business.
30% Time Allocation: Team Performance Management:
1. Develop and accurately manage monthly, quarterly, and annual sales and expense forecast reporting for the Mid-Market and Inside sales teams.
2. Ensure regular interaction with sales representatives in one-on-one meetings and staff meetings to manage sales activity and results.
3. Coach and mentor sales representatives to deliver top sales results, and serve as a change agent for the division.
4. Evaluate and manage staff performance and help develop overall team selling, negotiating, and business acumen skills.
5. Hire and train new sales staff.
5% Time Allocation: Sales Support:
1. Coordinate representation on behalf of the Mid-Market business at key events or meetings, to both internal and external audiences.
2. Drive utilization of CRM tools to track and forecast sales opportunities.
3. Ensure that our internal constituents, as well as dedicated sales staff, customer service, on-boarding, and technical support teams provide appropriate on-boarding and support for Mid-Market customers.
4. Support SVP, Sales as needed in various management and strategic planning meetings as assigned.
5% Time Allocation: Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Experience:
• 5 to 10 years of sales management experience in the education and Talent Assessment industries. Inside Sales management experience highly preferred.
• 3+ years proven successful sales experience in working with education and Talent Assessment accounts; highly preferred.
• Bachelor’s Degree in business, marketing, communications or similar or equivalent experience required
• 5+ years’ experience of Microsoft Office apps and programs required.
• 3+ Proven knowledge and experience with Salesforce as a primary customer relationship management tool or similar CRM.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Proven experience in successfully navigating and managing within complex sales settings.
• Exceptional oral, written, and presentation skills.
• Proven and documented sales leadership skills (capacity to motivate and inspire a sales team to consistently achieve aggressive results).
• Creative, insightful, confident and passionate leader that embraces change.
• Proven history of accurate sales forecasting and reporting skills.
• Confident/capable in working with executive level leaders.
• Performance driven and results oriented personality.
• Work well under heavy sales/quota pressure consistently.
• Proven understanding of marketing lead generation and direct sales models.
• Able to quickly develop trusting and cooperative relationships.
• Proven record of consistently meeting quota and sales goals.