Sales Director

ServiceNow; Middle (NV); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking a senior sales leader to build and lead a direct Sales Executive team across the EMEA region. You will shape territory plans, drive revenue growth, and collaborate with field teams to close opportunities while developing robust forecast and pipeline management.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, executive relationships, and partner ecosystem expansion in a dynamic, flexible work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leveraging AI to improve work processes or decision-making.
• Track record in new business sales with negotiation skills at C‑level.
• Strong skills in recruiting, coaching and managing a sales team.
• Strategic thinker with analytical and financial planning abilities.
• Ownership of accurate CRM reports and quarterly forecasts.
• Experience driving sales processes and partnering with Sales Ops.
• Ability to understand business drivers around IT and impact on revenue.
• Ability to build long-term senior-level relationships.
• Proven ability to grow revenue through partner ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Build a team of Direct Sales Executives to drive rapid new business growth in the region.
• Define and drive the regional sales strategy with Go-To-Market plans and competitive analysis.
• Support Field Sales in territory, opportunity development and closing deals.
• Recruit, coach and mentor team members to drive excellence.
• Develop territories and quotas, communicating expectations clearly.
• Forecast and report pipeline and performance to leadership.
• Achieve annual sales goals on quarterly and yearly basis.
• Engage with C-level customers to understand business requirements.
• Collaborate with Solution Consulting, Business Units, and partners.
• Maintain a strong customer experience with existing clients.

Skills

AI in workflows

New business sales

Recruiting & coaching

Strategic thinking

CRM forecasting

Sales operations collaboration

Business IT literacy

Executive relationship management

Adaptability

Mentoring top performers

Tools

CRM software

Job description

• Region: EMEA - Europe, Middle East and Africa
• Work Persona: Flexible

Company Description

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500 work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

Join us to put AI to work for people.

Job Description

What you get to do in this role:

• Build a team of direct Sales Executives to drive rapid new business sales growth in the region
• Build and drive sales strategy for the region in conjunction with Sales Operations to effectively Go-To-Market including understanding the competitive landscape, presence and strength within the region
• Actively engage in territory planning, relationship development and opportunity development and driving revenue by supporting and assisting Field Sales Teams in closing opportunities
• Recruit, coach and mentor team members to drive excellence
• Development of territories and quota for the sales team and effectively communicate to set performance expectations within the team
• Manage and report accurate forecast and pipeline to the business
• Achievement of annual sales goals on a quarterly and annual basis is required
• Engage and align effectively in C-level meetings in order to properly understand customer business requirements
• Build effective working relationships with Solution Consulting, Business Units, Professional Services, Marketing, our Partner community and the ServiceNow executive team
• Retain and grow existing customer base with regular non-sales customer engagement activities to deliver an excellent customer experience

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• Extensive track record of new business sales success including presentation and negotiation skills within industry and at C Level
• Strong success in recruiting, coaching and managing an exceptional sales team
• Strong strategic thinking including analytical and financial planning skills to meet and exceed quotas and goals.
• Ownership of accurate CRM reports including current and future quarterly forecasts and opportunity inspection
• Experienced in driving sales process and drive effective working relationships with Sales Operations
• Ability to understand the 'bigger picture' and business drivers around IT
• Ability to build long term strategic and senior level relationships
• Ability to adapt and work effectively within a rapidly changing and growing environment
• Demonstrates strong business and financial acumen
• Built self-motivated sales teams that embrace a culture of collaboration, enthusiasm, and overachievement
• Champions and promotes top performers, constantly develops and coaches the team and themselves, and topgrades appropriately
• Proven partner relationships and networks, and ability to grow the impact of revenue streams and territory development through the partner ecosystem
• Ownership of driving successful pipeline generation activities developed by marketing or the partner community

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Additional Information

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here . To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

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