Director/Senior Manager/Manager - Canada

Salesforce, Inc..; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a dynamic Sales Leader in Toronto to guide a team of Business Development Representatives and Account Executives. This role focuses on strategy formulation, team development, and driving revenue growth across various verticals. Ideal candidates will possess robust sales leadership experience and a proven ability to inspire and develop high-performing teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of sales leadership experience developing teams.
• Strong background in leading sales teams.
• Self-starter thriving in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Hire, train, and develop a team of quota-carrying salespeople.
• Create industry-specific pipeline programs to drive revenue.
• Regularly report on team results and revenue forecasting.

Skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Presentation skills

Client engagement

Coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

As a 1st or 2nd line Sales Leader you will be leading a team of Business Development Representatives, Business Development Managers, or Account Executives selling the entire Salesforce Customer Success Platform across multiple verticals. We are looking for a sales leader with great energy, leadership, and initiative to drive team performance and sales for our enterprise team. You will formulate and implement a strategy to increase business growth. This role works in partnership with Sales, Marketing, Pre-sales, Partner Alliances, Services & HR, therefore cross-company engagement and orchestration is crucial. The candidate will be a high impact individual capable of driving outstanding business results & first-class employee development. The Sales Leader is fully responsible for developing and leading the team to generate revenue and achieve individual team and organizational quotas. Aligning to the sales strategy, the Sales Leader defines and implements plans for the assigned Accounts to achieve sales objectives.

You may be aligned to the following verticals and/or clouds:

• Enterprise Corporate Services
• Financial Services
• Healthcare & Life Sciences
• Retail & Consumer Goods
• Comms, Media and Tech
• Public Sector
• Marketing Cloud
• Slack
• Mulesoft
• Tableau
• Marketing Cloud
• Specialization Cloud

Your Impact:
The teams you lead here at Salesforce will directly impact the growth of our overall organization. You will be masterful in client engagement and impact how your customers do business in a constantly evolving environment. You will coach your team to develop in their careers, and inspire your team to do the best work of their life.

• Hire, Train, and Develop a team
• Develop teams into sales-ready candidates for future Account Executive positions
• Create Industry Specific Pipeline Programs to drive Pipeline and Revenue
• Motivate Individuals and Team to exceed objectives through coaching, regular broadcast of results, and creative incentives
• Regularly report on Team/Individual Results - Pipeline Generation, Quality of Pipeline, Revenue Forecasting
• Work closely with Marketing on defining Campaign follow-up and reporting
• Work closely with Executive Leadership Team and Sales Leaders to ensure Pipeline Quality/Quantity and proper follow-up
• Work closely with Operations to make recommendations on process improvements
• Identify and make recommendations for improvement in the areas of Process, Efficiency, Productivity

Your Qualifications:

• Depending on the segment, the years of experience and skills needed to be successful will vary from 3+ yrs of sales leadership experience developing a team of seven or more quota carrying sales people. In addition, a bachelor's degree is strongly preferred.
• Strong background in leading sales teams
• Shown ability to create hard-working teams and lead them to success
• Excellent presentation and executive engagement skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• A self-starter that can thrive in a fast paced environment