Technical Sales Manager

Position Overview

Autodesk is seeking a dynamic Named Accounts Technical Sales Manager for the Emerging Business Construction team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and supporting a team of high-performing Technical Sales Executives focused on customer enterprise accounts. The goal is to partner with internal sales teams, Enterprise Customer Success teams, and Autodesk Consulting to secure sales by helping customers achieve their business objectives and grow their partnership with Autodesk and the Autodesk Construction Cloud and associated solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage Team: Oversee and guide a team of Technical Solution Executives focused on a diverse set of enterprise named accounts.
• Support Sales and Expansion: Work with Named Accounts Sales Leadership to drive the sales and growth of Autodesk Construction Solutions by building and supporting a scalable, world-class technical sales team for the construction technology industry
• Recruitment and Development: Select, develop, and build teams by recruiting resources, identifying staff development areas, and providing ongoing feedback, coaching, training, and development. Evaluate the performance of team members and promote ongoing development
• Team Motivation and Coaching: Motivate and develop the team to achieve company goals and objectives. Coach team members to identify and develop opportunities for expansion and growth, focusing on driving solution sales with a customer outcome-driven approach
• Skill Development: Support continues team development in both soft and hard skills, including strategic business expansion opportunities, presentation skills, discovery methods, value-focused demonstrations, and value-driven documentation, to achieve technical closure
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Establish strong working relationships across various groups, including GEOs, Sales, Customer Success, Industry Strategy, Marketing, R&D, and others, to gain valuable insights and structure teams effectively
• Organizational Structure Evaluation: Continually evaluate the organizational structure to ensure success through alignment with sales teams and allocate resources as needed
• Global Collaboration: Collaborate with the Director of Technical Sales and other organizational Technical Sales Managers on global organizational improvements, initiatives, and business cases
• Sales Process Optimization: Ensure effective use of sales processes, tools, and methodologies within the team
• Technical Knowledge: Maintain deep technical knowledge of Autodesk's product line and the construction industry's focus
• Business Planning: Develop and execute an annual business plan
• Thought Leadership: Be instrumental as an Autodesk Thought Leader both internally and externally
• Management Participation: Participate in forecast calls, account planning meetings, and other management meetings, either virtually or in person
• Sales Quota Review: Review and recommend sales quota alignment with the sales compensation plan design to drive the desired behavior
• Training Assessment: Identify team training opportunities and define or develop training as needed
• Reporting: Manage monthly and quarterly reporting of team progress and results

Minimum Qualifications

• Track Record: Proven success in exceeding professional goals as an individual contributor or manager in the current role
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills and a passion for coaching, training, and mentoring individual contributors
• Industry Experience: Minimum of eight (8) years in the construction industry, technical sales, or customer-facing role, working with executive-level personnel. Previous management experience is a plus
• Product Knowledge: Experience with Autodesk Construction Cloud products is a plus
• Skills: Analytical, detail-oriented, and a master multi-tasker
• Team Player: Must be a hungry, humble, and smart ideal team player with advanced soft skills
• Travel: Willingness to travel as required

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About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based sales roles, we expect a starting On-Target Earnings (OTE) between $190,600 and $275,770. OTE is comprised of base salary plus commission target for sales roles. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Sales Careers

Working in sales at Autodesk allows you to build meaningful relationships with customers while growing your career. Join us and help make a better, more sustainable world. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/careers/sales

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging