Our firm is looking for a Regional Sales Director. This position will have a regional market, and your search will be done in several locations.
This role will be based in Miami, Florida, USA, México, Brasil, Argentina, or Ecuador.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 60% of the time.
Role:
You will be responsible for the overall Regional go-to-market strategy and plan for the Company's product and service portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate joint initiatives with cross-functional teams (Services, Customer Value Acceleration team, Capital, Partners, etc.) and strategically engage cross-functional resources to achieve their goals and hit their numbers.
- Build strong customer relationships inside and outside of IT that challenge them to see their business differently.
- Develop a Regional go-to-market business plan that exceeds annual product, service, and customer satisfaction objectives.
- Effectively motivate sales personnel, providing development through direct feedback.
- Develop and implement strategies to exceed sales objectives through effective use of direct and extended team resources.
- Work successfully in a matrix management organization structure.
- Cultivate and facilitate a team environment which intersects empowerment with accountability.
- Encourage the team to see what is possible and get them to think beyond a traditional linear approach.
- Facilitate and develop customer interactions and relationships with CXOs and other Line of Business executives within and outside of IT. Be a steward of the Company culture.
- Balance strategic and operational issues, hire, develop, and retain top talent, and communicate the region strategy and business plan to multiple partners.
- You will interact with executives and business leaders within the customer segment.
- You will demonstrate an ability to excel within a cross-functional team environment.
Qualifications and Experience Required:
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- Extraordinary presentation, communication, and influence skills (written and verbal).
- MBA or graduate degree preferred.
- 7+ years of Sales or Sales Leadership experience combined.
- Proven ability to lead large accounts and geographies (LAC, AMERICA DEL SUR).
- Solid leadership, coaching, mentoring, and top grading skills.
- Fluency in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong critical thinking, innovation, and leadership skills.
- Your key traits are passion, creativity, initiative, collaboration, and the ability to motivate and innovate.
- You have an understanding of the business climate, competitive environment, and share these findings and developments with management.
- Demonstrated ability to build transformational customer relationships at all levels.
- Ability to accurately forecast sales activity, understanding trends, close ratios, and linearity.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment and possessing extraordinary leadership skills.
- Prior sales management preferred.
- Experience running budgets of $100+ million dollars for product and service offerings.
- Experience with server virtualization, x86 server architecture, data center switching technologies, issues related to data centers (power, cooling, rack space), and experience with EMC, NetApp, Citrix, VMware, Redhat, Microsoft is a plus.
Salary & Compensation:
$235,000 to $343,000/year.
Generous employee benefits package that includes a competitive salary, health insurance coverage for medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision, a generous company match for retirement savings accounts, and generous paid time off.
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