Director, Area Sales

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

Aspen Tech is currently seeking a Director, Area Sales with a proven track record of software sales success. The individual we seek is a sales professional who is a highly motivated, a self-starter with excellent business acumen and gravitas. A thorough understanding of executing a sales campaign from business development to closure and experience of managing strategic customers is required.

Your Impact

• Responsible for developing and growing a pipeline of opportunities for AspenTech products within the mining vertical. Must be able to cold call and prospect to achieve pipeline goals.
• Responsible for pro-actively driving sales campaigns to new logo mining customers and to targeted strategic prospects in the Mining markets within assigned territory/country, expanding AspenTech’s customer base.
• Manage a group of experience Account Managers who are geographically dispersed.
• Provide accurate and timely sales forecasts to executive management.
• Creating awareness in the Mining industry and attending trade shows for lead generation.
• Create, maintain and build senior level customer relationships.
• Sell with value propositions to senior management and/or plant managers.
• Develop and maintain good domain knowledge and competitive intelligence of machine learning, Smart manufacturing, and IoT.
• Develop and update the sales forecast and pipeline in Salesforce on a weekly basis.
• Achieve quarterly and annual sales quota.
• Liaise and work with departments within AspenTech (e.g. Finance, Operations, Legal Department) to achieve desired business results.
• Provide sales and executive management with account updates, sales forecasts, etc.
• Work as a team member on sales efforts involving global account opportunities.
• Provide sales and executive management with account updates, sales forecasts, and operational usage of SalesForce.com.

What You'll Need

• Degree in an engineering discipline would be preferred.
• At least 15 years of direct software sales experience
• Minimum of 5 years direct management experience leading a high performing sales team
• Experience in field business development and cultivating market throughout this region.
• Ability to travel over 50% of the time
• Preferred: Experience in Mining. An understanding of surface and underground mining fundamentals. Previous experience working with mining in Asia Pacific and Australia
• Preferred: Familiarity with predictive & prescriptive maintenance and reliability risk assessment

About Us

AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our Digital Grid Management software suite, including AspenTech OSI products, helps power and utilities companies achieve superior real-time control, optimization and management for exceptional performance of complex energy networks.

If you're looking to make a difference every day and push the limits of performance, AspenTech is doing things no one else thought was possible. As a leading industrial software partner, we help companies all over the world run safer, greener, longer and faster.

With over 3700 employees and more than 60 global locations, AspenTech is meeting today's sustainability and business challenges head-on with unmatched expertise, cutting-edge AI-powered technology and a passion to innovate.

AspenTech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. AspenTech does not discriminate against employees or applicants on the basis of age, race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or related conditions, marital status, familial status, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, citizenship, military service or protected Veteran Status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Reasonable Accommodation:

We will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals who have a disability or sincere religious reasons to request accommodation, when necessary to enable the individual to participate in the job application or interview process. If you wish to request an accommodation, please contact us at recruiting@aspentech.com .

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