Sales Director

Celestica Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a driven Sales Director specializing in Data Center and Campus Solutions. This role demands a high-performing sales professional who excels in individual contributor capacity, responsible for driving sales and expanding market footprint. The ideal candidate will possess deep industry knowledge and a robust network, ensuring they meet or exceed sales targets through strategic selling. Join a dynamic team that values innovation and customer-centric solutions, where your contributions will significantly impact the business's success.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of technology-related sales or business development experience.
• 5-7 years of sales experience selling Servers, Storage, and Networking products.

Responsibilities

• Drive and exceed revenue and market share in defined target accounts.
• Establish long-term strategic relationships with customers.
• Identify new opportunities based on deep understanding of customer needs.

Skills

Sales Strategy

Consultative Selling

Relationship Management

Communication Skills

Strategic Planning

Industry Knowledge

Education

Technical Degree (BSEE, BS Computer Engineering/Computer Science)

Job description

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Date: Apr 7, 2025

Location: Remote Employee Europe, BE, DE

Req ID: 125897
Remote Position: Yes
Region: Europe
Country: United Kingdom
State/Province: Greater Manchester
City: Remote Employee Europe

At Celestica, we are looking for an experienced and driven Sales Director (Individual Contributor) specialized in Data Center and Campus Solutions. This role is designed for a high-performing sales professional who excels in a focused, individual contributor capacity, with a direct responsibility for driving sales and expanding our footprint in the data center and campus solutions market. They will effectively communicate the value proposition of the Celestica HPS products and services, identify customer needs, and provide appropriate solutions. The ideal candidate will possess deep industry knowledge, a robust network of potential clients, and a proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets through strategic selling.

Responsibilities

• Drives and exceeds revenue and market share in defined target accounts/region.
• Develops and executes on account strategies in partnership with the business development team
• Establishes long term strategic senior level relationships with customers.
• Identifies influencers and key decision makers within the account establishing and maintaining close relationships with these stakeholders.
• Manages customer perceptions and the overall customer relationship process.
• Consistently identifies potential new opportunities and/or solutions with existing or new customers based on deep understanding of needs
• Participates in proposal creation and influence competitive cost targets, trade-offs, and business cases
• Collaborates with colleagues (executive, leadership and peers) to develop new products and services for customers.
• Fosters, promotes and facilitates cross-selling of Celestica wide products, services and capabilities.
• Understands how to leverage big data, cloud to create competitive advantage
• Developing new markets
• Leverage external partnerships to augment current capabilities and to enhance value proposition and market competitiveness
• Acts as the customer advocate to ensure that the organization remains customer-focused.
• Delivers quotations and RFQ responses to customers

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Provides high value industry knowledge and consulting to customers on IT technology, architecture, products and services.
• Specifically positioned to build Celestica’s image as a trusted advisor and promote Celestica value proposition and related roadmap portfolio.
• Knowledgeable on server, storage and network hardware and software ecosystem vendors.
• Knowledge and experience in consultative selling to OEMs.
• Extremely strong communication, interpersonal, relationship management and professional sales skills.
• Strong reporting skills as well as time and priority management skills.
• Strong strategic planning and execution skills.
• Strong team management skills and high level of ability to work with others as part of a cross-functional team.
• Self-starter who has demonstrated the ability to own, define, develop and execute a sales plan and consistently deliver on quarterly revenue targets.
• Travel required both domestic and internationally 25%-50% (Position is based in the Bay Area, California).

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.

Typical Experience

• 10-15 years of technology related sales or business development experience.
• 5- 7 years of sales experience selling Servers, Storage and Networking products and solutions into OEMs

Typical Education

• Technical degree (BSEE, BS Computer Engineering/Computer Science) strongly preferred, consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).
At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud.Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.