Regional Vice President - Canada
Salesforce
Job Summary
As a Sales Leader, you will manage and develop a team of Account Executives, participating in client meetings, and collaborating with internal partners. Responsibilities include recruiting, hiring, training new team members, and reporting on sales activity and forecasts to senior management. You will also mentor direct reports, drive demand generation, and engage at the C-level in enterprise customer organizations, contributing directly to the growth of Salesforce.
Must Have
- Manage and develop a team of Account Executives
- Participate and lead in client and prospect meetings
- Work cross-functionally with internal partners and corporate resources
- Recruit, hire, and train new team members on sales process
- Report on sales activity and forecast to senior sales management
- Provide support and mentorship to direct reports
- Coach direct reports on strategies to drive sales wins
- Monitor sales activity of the team and track results
- Actively lead and monitor demand generation activities
- Lead initiatives to drive customer awareness and engagement
- Develop and implement successful sales campaigns
- Engage at C-level in enterprise customer organizations
- Successfully lead significant client concerns and issues
- Develop required Corporate relationships and Executive engagement
- 2+ years of sales leadership experience leading a team of seven or more quota carrying sales people
- Successful experience in leading Account Executives
- Consistent track record to create successful teams and lead them to success
- Excellent presentation and executive engagement skills
- Excellent negotiation skills
- A self-starter that can thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Strong leadership capabilities
- 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
- Trusted advisor to customers and colleagues
- Courageous Communicator
- Prior experience working within the Software/Infrastructure/Platform (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) space
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.
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Note: By applying to the Regional Vice President posting, recruiters and hiring managers who support multiple cloud offerings and verticals across the organization hiring Regional Vice Presidents will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams. Please note some of these positions may be office-based, office-flexible or remote depending on the team.
Role Description:
As a Sales Leader you will be managing and developing a team of Account Executives. You will participate and lead in client and prospect meetings as well as work cross-functionally with internal partners 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.
Sales Organization Description:
Our Sales Organization is made up of the business segments below. Within these business segments, the teams sell across multiple verticals and there are teams that sell specifically into one industry or vertical. Verticals include: Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Retail & Consumer Goods, Communications Media & Technology, Consumer Business Services, Public Sector, Professional Services, Slack, Mulesoft, Tableau, Marketing Cloud, Specialization Cloud, Enterprise Corporate Sales and .ORG (Non Profit & Education).
In addition, we have Core Teams that sell the entire Salesforce Platform and our Co Prime teams specialize in a specific cloud solution including but not limited to Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Heroku or Quip.
Commercial Business Unit:
Mid Commercial (201 - 1000 employees)
General Commercial (1001 - 4500 employees)
Enterprise Business Unit:
Enterprise Corporate Sales (growing and managing subsidiaries within the Enterprise Parent accounts)
Select (4501 - 10000 employees)
Key (10001+ employees)
-Strategic, Strategic Enterprise, Summit (Named Accounts)
Your Impact:
The teams you lead here at Salesforce will directly impact the growth of our overall organization. You will be masterful in client engagement and impact how your customers do business in an innovative environment. You will coach your team to develop in their careers, and inspire your team to do the best work of their life.
- Provide support and mentorship to direct reports by participating and leading in client and prospect meetings or engaging other corporate resources as required
- Development of a winning team, including recruiting, hiring and training
- Coaching direct reports on strategies to drive sales wins
- Accurate reporting on sales activity and forecasting to senior sales management
- Consistent monitoring of the sales activity of the team, and tracking of results
- Actively leading and monitoring demand generation activities
- Leading initiatives to drive customer awareness and engagement
- Develop and implement successful sales campaigns
- Engaging at C-level in enterprise customer organizations
- Capable of successfully leading significant client concerns and issues
- Work cross-functionally with internal partners and corporate resources for consistent processes and a successful team
- Develop required Corporate relationships and Executive engagement to support success
Your Qualifications:
Depending on the segment, the years of experience and skills needed to be successful will vary from 2+ yrs of sales leadership experience leading a team of seven or more quota carrying sales people. In addition, a Bachelor's degree is strongly preferred.
- Shown successful experience in leading Account Executives
- Consistent track record to create successful teams and lead them to success
- Excellent presentation and executive engagement skills
- Excellent negotiation skills
- A self-starter that can thrive in a fast paced environment
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
- Courageous Communicator
- Prior experience working within the Software/Infrastructure/Platform (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) space
- Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
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.