Group Vice President, Manufacturing Industry Sales

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Role:

Due to our expansive growth, we are seeking an exceptional, growth-minded sales leader to join our team as Group Vice President, Manufacturing Industry Sales. This position reports to the VP, AMER Sales. The GVP will define market tactics to meet annual business goals. They will establish and lead a cross-functional team of experienced sales leaders and account executives in growing a productive and sustainable sales pipeline across the complex territory. This person will help transform and integrate all GTM functions, evolving an already world-class field operation, while achieving significant revenue growth annually. In addition to requisite passion, skills, and experience, the successful candidate will have a measurable track record in building and managing large, high-performing sales organizations with a focus on manufacturing customers. This individual will play a key role in driving a significant share of revenue for Splunk. Your role will have a material impact on Splunk's overall performance, are you up for the challenge?

What We Offer You:

• A fast-growing and rapidly changing business and market where you will be challenged and grow.
• Highly talented and dedicated peers across all GTM and Corporate functions.
• The work you'll do will directly impact our future and how we are viewed in the market and by our customers.
• Personal and Professional Growth. We believe in growing our leaders through ownership, new experiences, and formal and informal education.
• An open, supportive and collaborative work environment.

What We're Looking For:

• Success hiring, leading, and developing high performing teams.
• Success adapting and growing in fast-growing and changing environments.
• Success effectively influencing key stakeholders at our customers and inside of Splunk.
• Success orchestrating and aligning decision-makers around a common objective.
• Deep understanding of SaaS / Cloud Go-To-Market and the required roles for effective customer engagement.
• Strong familiarity with customers and use-cases in the manufacturing or supply chain industries.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of second-line leaders and partner closely with other functional teams.
• Lead by example, set expectations, and follow through effectively.
• Open, inclusive, and team-oriented, building a results-driven culture of accountability and transparency.
• Provide coaching and mentorship as needed and ensure that managers do the same for their team.
• Consistently deliver against targets - ensuring company goals, and objectives are achieved consistently and sustainably.
• Accurately forecast monthly, quarterly, and annual targets for assigned vertical.
• Effectively develop, design, build, and execute all aspects of the Vertical business plan to predictably and consistently generate short-term results while holding a long-term perspective of overall results.
• Put into place sales force structure, process strategies, and strategic resource plans that will capture key opportunities in target markets throughout the Vertical.
• Unearth customer insights, define the value proposition, determine appropriate sales and marketing strategy to maximize growth objectives.
• Maintain market intelligence and develop strategies to maintain the Company's leadership position.
• Growth mindset with the ability to outline the long-term vision and strategy.
• Provide leadership and oversight to ensure the team leverages and deploys resources efficiently and for the highest impact. Collaborating with sales engineering, channels/alliances, customer success, renewals professional services, product, legal, marketing, and engineering teams to create a seamless customer experience.

Requirements:

• 10 years' experience building and running enterprise sales teams in the software industry.
• 3 years' experience as a third line (or fourth line) sales leader of a team focused on customers in the manufacturing and supply-chain industries.
• Must have previously led a $75M (minimum) ARR sales organization.
• Relevant software industry experience in any of the following: IT systems, enterprise or infrastructure management, application development and management, security, business applications and/or analytics. Subscription, SaaS, or Cloud software experience is mandatory.
• History of consistently meeting/exceeding targets and objectives personally and as a leader.
• Excellent leadership and influencing skills; ability to build strong business partnerships both outside, and within the organization.
• Skilled at business planning and diligent at measuring and communicating progress towards the plan, identifying roadblocks, and coming up with appropriate solutions.
• Highly professional persona and polished demeanor. Strong verbal and written communication skills; effective at delivering executive-level presentations.
• Mastery of Consultative/solution selling methodologies like MEDDPICC, Challenger, Solution Selling, and Sandler
• Technically strong and accustomed to selling into CIOs, CTOs, and Line of Business
• Operationally strong and experienced, bringing process and rigor to his/her organization.
• An innovator with the courage to nourish "outside the box" thinking to surface and pursue new ideas.
• Bachelor's degree; MBA a plus
• Ability to travel ~50%

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion at Splunk and are an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.