Manager, Sales – SMB Growth (Regional)
Salesforce
Job Summary
As a Regional Sales Manager at Salesforce, you will lead and develop a team of Sales Executives, participating in client meetings and collaborating cross-functionally. Responsibilities include mentoring, recruiting, hiring, and training new team members on sales processes. You will report on sales activity and forecast to senior management, and be responsible for setting and driving Salesforce’s sales strategy within your specific region or territory, leading a growing sales organization at both strategic and operational levels.
Must Have
- Lead and develop a team of Sales Executives
- Participate and lead in client and prospect meetings
- Work cross-functionally with customers and corporate resources
- Mentor and develop the sales team, including recruiting, hiring, and training
- Report on sales activity and forecast to senior sales management
- Set and drive Salesforce’s sales strategy within your specific region or territory
- Assume leadership of a growing sales organization
- 2-8+ years of sales leadership experience managing 7+ quota carrying sales people
- Experience in sales coaching and mentoring
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, team environment
- Strong drive for results
- Strong engagement and communication skills
- Consultative selling experience
- Ability to collaborate and influence in a “win as a team” environment
- Resourceful and a trusted advisor
- Strong business acumen
- Prior experience in Software/Infrastructure/Platform (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) space
Good to Have
- Bachelor's degree
Job Description
About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
SALES LEADERSHIP
Our sales leaders, are responsible for one of the business segments shown below. Their teams sell across multiple verticals, or to one specific vertical, i.e. Financial Services, Healthcare Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Retail & Consumer Goods, Public Sector. Their teams (varying from 6-12 team members) may sell the entire Salesforce platform, or specialize in selling a specific Cloud solution, i.e. Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Platform, CPQ, Quip, Analytics.
SALES MANAGER & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
As a Regional Sales Manager, you will be leading and developing a team of Sales Executives. You will participate and lead in client and prospect meetings as well as work cross-functionally with customers and corporate resources as required. You will be responsible for ongoing mentoring and development of the sales team which includes recruiting, hiring and training new team members on sales process. In this role you will report on sales activity and forecast to senior sales management. You will be responsible for setting and driving Salesforce’s sales strategy within your specific region or territory. You will assume leadership of a growing sales organization, including individual contributors to help drive growth in your region. In this role you will plan and run at both the strategic and operational level.
YOUR IMPACT
The teams you lead here at Salesforce will directly impact the growth of our overall organization. You will be proficient in client engagement and impact how your customers do business in an ever-changing environment. You will mentor your team to develop in their careers, and encourage your team to do the best work of their life.
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
Depending on the segment, the years of experience and skills needed to be successful will vary from 2-8+ yrs of sales leadership experience managing a team of seven or more quota carrying sales people. In addition, a bachelor's degree is strongly preferred.
Across all Sales Leaders, we are looking for the following attributes:
STRONG LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES
- Experience in sales coaching and mentoring
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, team environment
- Has a strong drive for results
- Strong engagement and communication skills
CONSULTATIVE SELLING EXPERIENCE
- Can collaborate and influence in a “win as a team” environment
RESOURCEFUL
- Is a trusted advisor to the customers and colleagues
STRONG BUSINESS ACUMEN
- Prior experience working within the Software/Infrastructure/Platform (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) space
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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