Sales Leader: Emotional intelligence and integrity
- Vision and strategy: Establish and clearly articulate a vision and strategy for the sales and revenue teams that align with company goals, fit the needs of the customers we serve and compliment the defined roles and responsibilities we have on the team.
- Strong communication skills: Effectively communicate to customers, upper-management, cross-functional teams and front line managers and individual contributors.
- Coaching and mentoring: Provide actionable, specific guidance, feedback and coaching. Experienced in hiring, training and retaining talent; and leading that talent with a winning culture centered around getting better, together, every day.
- Results oriented: Focused on long-term growth while winning early and winning often. Short term success and small wins add up over-time and should be celebrated.
- Adaptability: Capable of change-management, implementing new go to market strategies and understanding what needs to be improved, abandoned or accelerated, and why.
- Collaborative-mindset: Cross-functional team-player with the ability to connect company wide goals to to company-wide solutions.
- Data-driven decision making: We need accurate, timely and available data to understand our leading and lagging indicators. But we cannot forget our instincts and experience.
- Integrity and Accountability: Lead by example. Built trust. Be a servant leader. "I will never ask a sales person to do something I am not willing to do myself."
Individual Sales Contributor: Consultative selling
- Customer-Focused: Intrinsically motivated to solve complex customer problems through discovery and collaboration
- Sourcing deals: Able to prospect, network and drive end-to-end sales cycles as an individual seller and executive sponsor
- Procurement: Experienced in navigating complex vendor procurement and compliance processes in highly regulated industries
- Building to a yes: Understanding the customer's true problems and building buy-in from all stakeholders that our solutions solves those problems
- Proven track record: Seasoned contract negotiator and closer, with nearly 300 signatures
- Sales training and methods: Challenger, Miller-Heiman, Sandler and MEDDPICC strategies
Revenue Operations: Answers and solutions
- KPIs: Know the true and impactful KPIs that need to be measured and managed
- Forecasting: Consistent processes to enable accurate revenue forecasting and management
- CRM and Tools: Establish and document best practices and standard operating procedures
- Incentive plans: Develop compensation and incentive packages to drive needed performance that align to company goals
- Sales enablement: Help enable sales professionals to focus on what they do best
- Cross-functional alignment: Trusted business partner for marketing, product, operations and leadership