Senior Manager, Sales

Job Category

Sales

About Salesforce

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Job Summary

As a Sales Leader you will be leading a team of Account Executives selling the entire Salesforce Customer Success Platform. We are looking for a sales leader with great energy, leadership, and initiative to drive team performance and sales for our enterprise team. You will formulate and implement a strategy to enhance business growth. This role works in partnership with Sales, Marketing, Pre-sales, Partner Alliances, Services & HR, therefore cross-company engagement and orchestration is crucial. The candidate will be a high impact individual capable of driving outstanding business results & first-class employee development. As a Sales Leader you will be fully responsible for developing and leading the team to generate revenue and achieve individual team and organizational quotas. Aligning to the sales strategy, the Sales Leader defines and implements plans for the assigned Accounts to achieve sales objectives.

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 ever-changing 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 guidance to team by participating and leading in client and prospect meetings or engaging other corporate resources as required
• Development of a successful team, including recruiting, hiring and training
• Coaching Sales Reps 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 handling significant client customer concerns and issues
• 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 5+ yrs of sales leadership experience developing a team of seven or more quota carrying sales people. In addition, a bachelor’s degree is strongly preferred.

• Shown successful experience in leading Enterprise Account Executives
• Consistent track record to create impactful 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
• Strong acumen
• Prior experience working within the Software/Infrastructure/Platform (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) space