What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Sales Director, Enterprise Sales position at Prove?
Prove is looking for a Senior Sales Director, Enterprise Sales to join our rapidly expanding sales organization. You will be a Player/Coach growing your own book of business and leading a team of "hunter" Sales Directors that are breaking down doors in the Core Industries ~ Financial, Fintech, Insurance, Healthcare, Retail, and Travel & Entertainment. We are looking for a strong leader with a history of success growing revenue in an organization that is scaling rapidly.
What You Are Accountable For
- Build, lead and grow your own book of business, selling to target accounts
- Manage a sales team, which includes business development reps for individual verticals and pipelines.
- Participate in strategic planning to develop revenue projections and actively engage in contract negotiations.
- Increase the tempo of new client acquisition by building a sustainable sales pipeline and decrease the length of the sales cycle.
- Monitor monthly, quarterly and annual quotas; analyze data and metrics; assess performance and ensure the company achieves annual revenue targets.
- Monitor the sales revenue pipeline and leads, adjusting as necessary to create sustainable growth.
- Lead team to meet activity metrics as well as bookings and revenue quota
- Shrink time to revenue by decreasing the length of time between customer acquisition and the go-live date.
- Assists with recruiting for the team
- Monitors attainment versus forecast and assists with corrective action when necessary
- Evangelize the company by participating in industry events and trade shows.
- Initiates, participates in, coaches and supervises on-going training of assigned sales representatives in technical knowledge, competitive knowledge, and sales skills knowledge
- Establish a trusted/strategic coach relationship with assigned sales directors and drive continued value of our products and services; advocate customer needs/issues cross-departmentally;
- Identify cross sell and upsell opportunities within the existing client base
- Support negotiations of contracts, renewals, amendments and SOWs by assessing pricing and how it relates to revenue recognition
- Develop and regularly report on customer success KPIs that will measure activity and pipeline performance
- Promote, maintain and enhance our cultural values of humility, passion, inclusion and leadership.
- Exhibit a strong passion for learning our products and markets through in-house and external training.
What We Require
- 8-10 years of relevant experience with SaaS or direct B2B high-tech solutions.
- 3-5 years of sales leadership with emphasis on coaching a team
- Track record of successfully scaling a profitable sales organization.
- Prior responsibility for forecasting revenue, associated costs, direct and indirect sales goals, and team leadership.
- Experience working in a small, entrepreneurial company.
- Experience selling Identity or Security software and/or platform solutions into new markets and across all channels direct; inside sales; partners; and strategic alliances.
- Experience with product launch; strategic and product marketing a plus
- Full appreciation for marketing-driven demand generation and experience leveraging marketing automation.
- Experience with Salesforce (CRM).
- Knowledge of Fintech, Identity and Authentication are a must have