Sales Director - UK, Utilities

IQGeo; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IQGeo seeks a dynamic Sales Director to drive sales and manage high-value deals within the Utility market in the UK. The ideal candidate will possess substantial sales experience, strategic skills, and a strong understanding of the T&D network landscape. This role requires engaging with various stakeholders to build lasting customer relationships and effectively present solutions that address their business needs, ultimately leading to growth and success for both the customer and Company.

Benefits

25 days of paid holiday

Company-matched pension contributions up to 6%

Private medical insurance

Health cash plan

Company life assurance (4x gross salary)

Enhanced maternity leave policy

EV company car scheme

Flexible working arrangements

Charity/Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in closing enterprise Software, SaaS, or PaaS deals.
• Proven track record of overachievement in sales targets.
• Strong understanding of the Utilities space, particularly around T&D network operations.

Responsibilities

• Accountability for generating new leads and opportunities within target markets.
• Create and execute account plans and winning strategies for key accounts.
• Lead and negotiate the entire sales lifecycle to finalize deals.

Skills

Sales experience

Relationship building

Negotiation skills

Strategic sales

T&D Electricity network operations

Consultative guidance

Business value transformation

Forecasting sales revenue

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field

Job description

Job Summary

The Sales Director, our most senior IC role, will be responsible for managing, structuring, and negotiating complex, high-value deals with key prospects (T1 & T2) within the Utility market. The objective of this position is to drive sales in the territory assigned to you (**UKI**), where you are expected to target and engage key Utilities and in doing so build robust multi-faceted stakeholder relationships. You are expected to identify, qualify, develop and convert new opportunities, including both initial land deals as well as expansion deals with your key accounts. This role is highly visible across the organization and has cross functional interaction with all business units, including Presales, Customer Success, Marketing, Product Management, Delivery, and Finance.

We are looking for a tenacious individual with real drive and enthusiasm to transform our customer’s business challenges into solutions and business value. The role is perfect for someone inherently curious; a person that loves what they do and who devours information related to their field to which they operate, their profession and their craft; they read about, enthuse about it, and talk with passion to whoever will listen.

As a Sales Director, you will be responsible for unearthing and understanding customers' business needs and effectively communicating how IQGeo’s solutions can address those needs. You will work closely with the leadership team to drive revenue growth by providing consultative guidance, high level product pitches and general brand awareness. Your role is instrumental in building trusted customer relationships, leading to a qualified pipeline of legitimacy and substance.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Not for 2025

Duties/Responsibilities

• Accountability and generation of new leads and opportunities in your target market/s utilizing best practice methods augmented by creativity, OOTB thinking and daring.
• With high energy and belief - engage with multiple customer contacts (shop floor to C-Suite) within a given account, ensuring that multiple trusted points of contact are established – so avoiding the risks of ‘single point selling’.
• Create and execute account plans, mutual engagement plans and winning strategies (we use the Value Selling Framework) for key accounts in your territory.

• Become a trusted advisor for your accounts – value which is centered around a good understanding of the Utilities space, especially around T&D network operations and the energy transition agenda.

• Orchestration of the full deal lifecycle to the final booking process in line with revenue recognition rules and policies to attain recognizable software subscription licenses (ACV), underpinned by the necessary professional services (partner or internal) to successfully implement IQGeo’s software platform in line with the customers defined business requirements - with vision for a multi-year relationship.
• Present comprehensive solutions and establish a value-based vision predicated on solving a customer’s business challenges, including ROI scenarios.
• To defend and negotiate commercial terms at senior levels of the customer’s organization.
• Accurately forecast sales revenue, based on in-depth understanding and sound judgment and considering revenue recognition implications. 2025 will present a strong focus on linearity.
• Work with the Alliances and Channels leadership to develop and nurture partner relationships to facilitate and foster stronger, faster sales engagements with target accounts - allowing scale at pace.
• Curating value engineering exercises in line with the customers ‘north star’ narrative - articulating IQGeo’s business value in the customers language – through their lens.
• To proactively develop a robust understanding of the competitive landscape - building, documenting and sharing this information within the company.
• To work closely with Marketing and Business Development to drive territory brand awareness and pipeline generation.
• Achieve the agreed sales target.
• Domestic and international travel expected.

Required Skills/Abilities

• Minimum of 5 years of experience closing enterprise Software, SaaS, or PaaS deals.
• Proven Sales experience with regular overachievement of sales targets and driving new business
• Must be a natural ‘storyteller’- believable and credible in a boardroom.
• Possess a strong network of executive relationships within your given territory.
• A thorough understanding of Enterprise Solutions Sales.
• Strong understanding of T&D Electricity network operations.
• Strategic sales skills to manage large complex and global accounts.
• Experience of working for a global software organization.
• Knowledge of complex software applications.
• Excellent sales and customer service skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Fluency in English is required. Other language skills would be helpful.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field or equivalent experience

What’s In it For You

• 25 days of paid holiday, with the opportunity to purchase further days up to a total of 30.
• Charity/Volunteering day each year.
• Company-matched pension contributions of up to 6% base salary.
• Private medical insurance.
• Health cash plan.
• Company life assurance (4x gross salary).
• Incapacity benefit.
• Enhanced maternity leave policy.
• EV company car scheme (salary sacrifice).
• Cycle scheme (salary sacrifice).
• Give as you earn charity scheme.

Work Permits & Visas

You must already have the right to work permanently in the United Kingdom.

IQGeo is not able to sponsor work permits.

Flexible Working

We support hybrid and flexible working arrangements for all employees. We understand that life for many people involves school runs, care giving, or exercising!

About IQGeo

IQGeo is based in Cambridge, UK with regional offices in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Germany, Malaysia, and Japan. We are supported by a global network of highly skilled partners. Originally founded as Ubisense Ltd in 2002, the IQGeo brand was launched in January 2019 after the company was split into two separate businesses. Led by a team of geospatial technology pioneers, the IQGeo Platform software was first launched in 2010 and has an impressive pedigree in the telco, communications, and utility industries. In 2020, IQGeo acquired OSPInsight, a provider of fiber network management software, and in 2022 IQGeo acquired Comsof, a world leader in automated network design, headquartered in Belgium.

Today, IQGeo is the leader in introducing modern web and mobile geospatial applications into the communications and utility industries.