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A leading cybersecurity firm is seeking an Acquisition Regional Director to lead a team focused on new business sales for security services and technology solutions. This role involves developing the sales strategy, managing forecasts, and building collaborative relationships with partners. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in sales management, particularly within cybersecurity and have a proven track record in business development.
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This is an exciting opportunity for a results-oriented leader who likes driving new business, building pipeline, and coaching sellers responsible for capturing white space. As an Acquisition Regional Director, you're responsible for leading a team of acquisition sellers to drive new business sales for Optiv security services and security technology solutions to Enterprise clients. You will build out a new region, setting up operating procedures and lead your team's development to sell more strategic and complex (hardware, software, consulting, services, and financing) engagements. You will work proactively with your team to drive pipeline 1-2 quarters out to ensure your region meets both current quarter and next quarter expectations.
How you'll make an impact
Manage with unwavering commitment to develop and deliver accurate and timely weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual sales forecasts.
Lead team to execute with discipline and in alignment with Optiv's Selling Methodology and MEDDICC sales process and performance management.
Ensure client engagement strategies are aligned with Optiv's mission, values, cultures and value proposition and that they result in employee development and revenue growth.
Establish and maintain collaborative and mutually beneficial relationships with Optiv's Core and Select technology partners. Execute Optiv and vendor partner marketing campaigns.
Manage to the annual operating budget assigned.
Effectively and collaboratively work with other organizations (Services, Client Operations, Human Resources and Executive Leadership Team) to optimize revenue growth and client satisfaction. Identify, refine and leverage best sales practices with peer Acquisition RDs across North America.
Develop a region acquisition strategy for sellers to foster a culture of success in recapturing dormant and lost accounts as well as winning whitespace opportunities
Develop a regional business plan for pipeline initiatives across marketing, partners, and sales
Build an operating rhythm to drive focus on lead generation, capturing best practices and sharing them across acquisition regions.
Manage current and multi quarter region forecasts with a high degree of accuracy
Ensure team executes with discipline in alignment with Optiv’s Selling Methodology principles including MEDDICC
Personally create new leads and relationships with prospects and customers
Build trusted, effective and productive relationships with client executives within assigned accounts.
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all policies and standards
Supervise a team of 5-10 acquisition sellers
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
2-4 years proven experience managing acquisitions sales teams
7-10 years business development and sales experience in security technology and services with a track record of multi-million-dollar gross margin quota attainment.
Unwavering commitment and experience recruiting, managing and coaching acquisitions sales professionals to create a culture of success, collaboration and ongoing business goal achievement, with demonstrated commitment to building and leading a team respectful of a diverse working population.
Experience developing new regions and building territories with sales professionals, with diplomacy and respect, to enhance performance or manage them out of the business.
Strong business acumen and ability to correlate business goals with business and cyber security risk in support of developing complex security technology and services solutions.
Executive presence and ability to build a strong network of executive relationships to expand client, partner, candidate and internal relationships.
Ability to build regional account management plans.
Demonstrated ability to build strong and productive business relationships with key executives and sponsors within assigned accounts.
Ability to lead cross-functional dotted-line teams comprised of sales, technical and support personnel in a highly effective fashion.
Strong negotiation, presentation, verbal and written communications skills.
Experience in and knowledge of the IT infrastructure market and competitors.
Experience in building and selling complex and multi-year hardware, software, services and financing solutions in Fortune 1000 accounts.
Experience in and knowledge of the IT infrastructure market and competitors.
Experience in and knowledge of the Risk and Compliance market and competitors.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
Experience selling management consulting services.
Ability to bring in and develop highly skilled business development professionals
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