The Senior Sales Manager owns and facilitates relationships with strategic customers, leading a team of account managers in DACH region who are focused on building trusted relationships across customers while contributing to long-term and impactful partnerships.
Also, as Country Host for Germany and Switzerland represents International at relevant in country Forums & Influencing events & key customers; ensures strong engagement plans to create best colleague experience and ensures relevant governance is met in association with leadership team.
What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities
- Revenue & Pipeline Management : Leads and supervises the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of sales activities focused around selling strategic products and / or services, developing new accounts and / or expanding existing accounts.
- Manages resources in a cost-effective, innovative manner including assisting sales executives in the effective use of resources and tools.
- Participates in establishing financial goals, objectives and measurements to meet growth targets within the sales specialism.
- Leads the identification of critical market segments through market research and competitor analyses and recommends sales strategies for improvement.
- Oversees the preparation of sales production reports for senior management.
- Ensures continuous feedback from key customers through driving NPS and the analysis of results to ensure positive client relationships and satisfaction.
- Cross-functional collaboration : work closely with marketing, product development, and customer service teams
- Partners with top sales executives in overseeing the implementation of sales plans, goals, strategies and objectives to achieve team goals and revenue objectives plans to create and close product / service opportunities.
- Mentors, coaches, and manages a team of account managers to develop current and future team capabilities and monitor performanceand working with human resources on employee-related issues.
- Leads the implementation of continuous improvement opportunities
- Sales strategy development & execution : To develop a comprehensive account plan focused on expanding our existing customer base, alongside a targeted sales strategy aimed at acquiring new clients selectively and strategically
Country Host
- in-country legal entity board director
- Member of the wider regional LT
- Key contributor to regional strategy & support regional leadership
- Engage with relevant ROM’s on operational issues, risk , governance & compliance
- Represent International at industry events, public meetings and analyst conferences. Including media activity where necessary. Attend conferences and customer / supplier meetings as required
- Collaborative interaction with workers councils / unions where relevant
- For clarity, there is no P&L ownership
Skills required for the job
- Drives & motivates team to deliver targets & goals. With specific focus on growth.
- Insight and business development driven – building the need in the customer through tech trends, industry and customer insight
- Able to explain the benefits of BT’s standard products and repeatable solutions in a compelling way for the customer
- Manages team sales performance and strategic growth of group of accounts through the team.
- Depending on the needs of the individual account – there will be a need to coaching in
- Farming’ capability i.e. the ability to land and expand in a client account to find opportunities based on strong relationship management
- Hunting’ capability i.e. the ability to open new doors in terms of account acquisition or product introduction
- Brings to life the BT strategy & vision and values for the team and BT customers.
- Manages the customer End to End driving customer satisfaction and profitable growth through sales team.
- Leverages relationships with Strategy, Portfolio and Marketing teams to ensure greater knowledge of the BT Brand pull-through and product proposition
- Promotes diversity and creates an inclusive working environment
- German / English language is an essential requirement
Country Host
- Demonstrable leadership skills &team management
- Knowledge of the market in your country / Region
- Passionate about creating a great place to work
- Passionate about delighting customers
- Strategic thinking and vision
- Ability to take people on the journey with you.
- Strong story teller / communicator
- Collaborative leadership style
Connected leaders behaviours
- Customer Champion - Establishes customer needs, uses operational and technical expertise to deliver brilliant experiences.
- Solution focussed achiever - Identifies and implements plans to overcome obstacles and achieve ambitious goals.
- Collaborative partner - Maintains internal and external relationships, collaborating both operationally and technically to deliver business results.
- Commercial Thinker - Uses understanding of internal commercial insight and latest external thinkingto develop, and implement ideas that benefit BT
Experience you would be expected to have
- Track record of successfully growing large accounts in terms of revenue growth, product penetration and customer satisfaction (i.e. NPS or other equivalent measure) and / or evidence of acquiring new customer accounts.
- Extensive and varied global business experience, possibly with an MBA or similar post-graduate qualification.