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Nicholas  Boetcher

Nicholas Boetcher

Sales Leader
Raleigh / Durham NC,NC

Summary

A seasoned leader in sales management, I've significantly boosted Avalara's global market presence, achieving consistent sales targets through strategic leadership and expert client account management. My approach combines rigorous market analysis with a high-performing team culture, driving over 125% of sales goals. Renowned for sales coaching and development, I excel in building partnerships and leading teams to success.

Sales professional adept at creating strategic sales plans and driving revenue growth. Proven ability to manage and develop high-performing teams, fostering culture of collaboration and results. Recognized for adaptability and reliability in dynamic environments, leveraging negotiation and client relationship management skills.

Sales Management Professional with substantial experience in driving revenue growth and optimizing sales strategies. Proven ability to lead teams, foster collaboration, and adapt to evolving market demands. Skilled in client relationship management, negotiation, and strategic planning. Dependable and goal-oriented, consistently delivering impactful results. Pursuing full-time role that presents professional challenges and leverages interpersonal skills, effective time management, and problem-solving expertise. Hardworking and driven sales management professional equipped to revitalize sales operations and align procedures to maximize profits and client acquisition. Successful at improving sales procedures to streamline and strengthen processes. Multifaceted leader with analytical and diligent approach to building and leading strong teams. Innovative technology professional with several years of diverse experience. Skilled in enhancing systems and aligning technical solutions with business objectives. Proven success in leading projects from start to finish and contributing to organizational growth and success.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
5
5
Certification

Work History

Senior Sales Manager - Global Marketplaces

Avalara
01.2024 - Current
  • Increased overall sales revenue by implementing effective sales strategies and building strong client relationships.
  • Collaborated closely with marketing teams to develop targeted campaigns that drove significant increases in qualified leads and overall sales performance.
  • Mentored junior sales professionals in advanced selling techniques, resulting in accelerated career progression and enhanced contributions to overall team success.
  • Exceeded annual sales targets consistently by maintaining a proactive approach to lead generation and pipeline management.

Launch to Growth Sales Manager

Avalara
01.2021 - Current
  • Maintain relationships with 400+ integration partners to identifying needs and offering appropriate compliance solutions for their customer base.
  • Coached 8 SE in successful selling methods and encouraged cross-selling to drive revenue with Command the Message selling tactics.
  • Identifying, hiring and training highly-qualified Sales Executives, SDR's, And SAM's by teaching best practices, procedures and sales strategies.
  • Grew sales and boosted profits, applying proactive management strategies and enhancing sales training. - 13 million in revenue annually
  • Monitor customer compliance scenarios and buying trends, market conditions and competitor actions to adjust strategies and achieve sales goals.
  • Supervise sales team of 8 people, stepping in to support employees and deliver smooth sales processes for clients.
  • Organize promotional events and interacted with partner ecosystem and user groups to increase sales volume.
  • Manage order cycle to enhance business development and maintain sustainability and customer satisfaction within Salesforce on a daily basis.
  • Monitoring activity, short cycle sales, email content, and interactions with our partners/clients on a hourly, daily, basis to help increase skill sets.
  • Hold weekly meetings with VPs, leaders, and reps to identify techniques to overcome sales obstacles.
  • Develop and implemented comprehensive salesperson training program through ongoing sales cycle process to identify prospects buying triggers.
  • Improved sales processes to streamline customer acquisition and onboarding strategies while creating nexus obligations and liability reports to deliver actionable next steps.
  • Delivered engaging sales presentations to new clients, explaining technical information in simplified language to promote features and increase client base.
  • Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement

Senior Sales Executive

Avalara
09.2017 - 12.2020
  • Qualify and close sales leads generated by sales development teams.
  • Qualify and close new sales opportunities that are self-generated or through partner relationships.
  • Manage medium to enterprise size customer sales process through qualification, needs analysis, product demonstration, negotiation and close.
  • Develop and maintain high level of industry knowledge and offerings.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with Avalara partners and other third parties to increase opportunities.
  • Active team player both on sales team and throughout organization to help meet company objectives.
  • Acquired more than $4 million in new customer business in 2018 to 2021
  • Outperformed revenue targets by effectively applying robust sales process and value drivers sales techniques
  • Prospected leads, scheduled meetings and converted targets into customers at 65% rate
  • Sold 350 new customers in last 4 years
  • Earned Club Winners 3 years in row award for maintaining customer satisfaction ratings and securing high-profit accounts

Director of Sales

Triangle Business Journal
10.2015 - 08.2017
    • As Sales Director for region, drove new customer acquisitions and hunted new logos by developing key growth sales strategies, tactics and action plans
    • This is was individual contributor role and team lead role responsible for hitting sales quota and overachieving it
    • Identified and close sales opportunities with Fortune 500 companies
    • Manage complex sales cycle selling to CEO's and CFOs
    • Managed large accounts with 100mil and above in revenue
    • Increased revenue via prospecting, qualifying, selling and closing enterprise client accounts
    • Forecasted sales closures accurately based upon realistic opportunity assessments
    • Work with accounts executives, sales operations and marketing to maximize territory penetration
    • Provided consultative solutions sales process to prospects
    • Built key customer relationships with customers
    • Consistently serviced accounts to maintain active contacts and continuously promote profitable offerings
    • Provided documentation of processes to comply with regulations and company policies
    • Forecasted sales of $1.5 million and set successful policies to achieve sales objectives and related metrics within timeframe

Sales Manager

YP.com
09.2010 - 09.2015
  • As Digital Sales Manager, responsible for leading team of Digital Sales Representatives (Inside Sellers) to meet revenue objectives in assigned Business Unit and product categories
  • Leveraged leadership experience and digital sales skills to lead Digital Sales Representatives to prospect, cultivate, and ultimately close business working with direct organization or distributors
  • Designed, maintain and deliver weekly, quarterly, and annual report cards of Digital Sales Representative team
  • Set goals and measure progress of team against established metrics outlined in report
  • Ran and manage sales cadences that focus on core metrics of Revenue Attainment, Pipeline, and Opportunity Identification
  • Ensuring best practices are across all sales team
  • Maintained high client satisfaction rate results measured by annual surveys and employee engagement
  • Communicated customer feedback to Sales and Marketing leadership to generate ideas about new features, products, competitive intel, or customer complaints
  • Evaluated lead-management process alongside Marketing and Sales leadership for continuous improvement between Marketing, Digital Sales and Outside Sales teams
  • Kept up to date on sales analytics, new methods for customer communications, and industry trends; developing and leading continuous improvement initiatives based on market changes
  • Participated in interview process and lead new hire training for Digital Sales team
  • Coached Digital Sales Representatives on proper cadence for cold calling, email communications, strategic selling process, healthcare system, and objection handling
  • Product knowledge – educated features, benefits and key differentiators of product line
  • Sales skills – consultative selling and key activities that are part of solution/alternative sales process
  • Served as lead for Digital Sales Center of Excellence
  • Surpassed 2 sales targets 125% consistently and maintained solid top 5 overall company rankings
  • Closed average of 20 sales calls each quarter
  • Sold products by developing relationships with network of CMO & CTO professionals

Sales Executive

Time Warner Cable Business Class
08.2006 - 09.2010
    • Identified qualified and sold new client engagements with target organizations within Business communication equipment and other lines of business, to achieve or exceed annual goals
    • Built effective and collaborative relationships with key decision-makers within target organizations
    • Used highly consultative approach to setup sales meetings and conduct face to face meetings with prospects
    • Increased revenue by implementing effective sales strategies in sales cycle process from prospecting leads through close
    • Organized and executed multi-faceted sales plan to effectively make direct contact with prospects
    • Participated in professional organizations and informal networks to develop, build and sustain pipelines and to obtain prospects
    • Capitalized on customer up-sell opportunities resulting in 90% 56increased revenues
    • Grew sales and boosted profits, applying proactive management strategies and enhancing sales training

Sales Executive

Paxton Media Group
01.2004 - 08.2006

Identified, qualified and sold new client engagements with target organizations within Digital / Print business, to achieve or exceed annual goals

  • Built effective and collaborative relationships with the key decision-makers within the target organizations

  • Used a highly consultative approach to setup sales meetings and conduct face to face meetings with prospects

  • Organized and executed a multi-faceted sales plan to effectively make direct contact with prospects

  • Participated in professional organizations and informal networks to develop, build and sustain pipelines and to obtain prospects
  • Capitalized on customer up-sell opportunities resulting in 85% increased revenues
  • Monitored customer buying trends, market conditions and competitor actions to adjust strategies and achieve sales goals

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Business Communications

Niagara University
Niagara Falls, NY
05.2002

Skills

  • Sales
  • Scheduling
  • Budgeting
  • Market Analysis
  • Market Research
  • Client Account Management
  • Business-to-Business Sales
  • Market Strategy
  • Product Sales
  • Lead Generation
  • Sales Contracts
  • Preparing Proposals
  • Product Knowledge
  • Sales Forecasting
  • Sales Training
  • CRM Software
  • Account and Territory Management
  • Sales Process
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Revenue Generation
  • Sales Territory Growth
  • Sales Expertise
  • Accomplished Manager
  • Digital Sales
  • Customer Loyalty
  • B to B Sales

Certification

  • Cohort Leadership Cohort to Win - Gallup
  • CSP - Certified Sales Professional - Force Management
  • Salesforce Certified - Salesforce.com
  • Avalara University Sales Certification Program - Avalara
  • CPSP - Certified Professional Sales Person
  • Gong - Frontline Manager Certification

Accomplishments

  • H2 - Finished 2023 at 123% of objective with 4 out of 6 reps hit 100% of their objective. Closed 4 million dollars in new sales bookings with over 35 newly launched partner relationships established.
  • H1 - 2023 145% to growth launch team goal with 5 out of 6 Reps hitting plan above 100% and the remaining reps above 85% to plan.
  • July 2022 to June 2023 Launch Team hit 12 consecutive months objective in a row
  • 2021 Team finished at 102% of our growth objective
  • 2020 Avalara President,s Club Winner - 115% of objective - $950 k in sales
  • 2019 Avalara President's Club Winner - 156% of objective - $1.350 million in sales
  • 2018 - Avalara President's Club Winner - 145% of objective -$1.125 million in sales
  • 2016 - American City Business Journals Top Achiever Sales Award - #2 overall sales in company
  • 2010 - YP President Club Winners Circle - Top Product Sales Leader
  • Avalara consistent sales for 26 months in a row of hitting objective by introducing new solutions for CFO's across all business facets.
  • Collaborated with engineering team in the development of nexus analysis tool and compliance security assessments.
  • Helped on board and Supervised team of 8 ew sales executives.
  • Resolved product issue through consumer testing with partners relationship like Salesforce, SAP, Shopify, & ECI.

Affiliations

  • American Marketing Association
  • UJIMA Board Member at Avalara (ERG that supports Black employees through mentoring programs, leadership development, and career growth plans.
  • Habitat For Humanity
  • Chamber of Commerce Member
  • NC Tech Member &. Sponsor

Work Availability

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Quote

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John R. Wooden

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Work Location

Hybrid

Important To Me

Company CultureWork-life balanceCareer advancementStock Options / Equity / Profit Sharing

Software

Xactly

SalesForce

Gong

OutReach

WorkDay

Avalara

Timeline

Senior Sales Manager - Global Marketplaces

Avalara
01.2024 - Current

Launch to Growth Sales Manager

Avalara
01.2021 - Current

Senior Sales Executive

Avalara
09.2017 - 12.2020

Director of Sales

Triangle Business Journal
10.2015 - 08.2017

Sales Manager

YP.com
09.2010 - 09.2015

Sales Executive

Time Warner Cable Business Class
08.2006 - 09.2010

Sales Executive

Paxton Media Group
01.2004 - 08.2006

Bachelor of Arts - Business Communications

Niagara University
  • Cohort Leadership Cohort to Win - Gallup
  • CSP - Certified Sales Professional - Force Management
  • Salesforce Certified - Salesforce.com
  • Avalara University Sales Certification Program - Avalara
Nicholas BoetcherSales Leader