Enterprise Sales Lead

NTT Ltd; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 1 639 000 - 2 460 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global technology services company seeks a Director, Go-To-Market Sales. This pivotal role focuses on providing direction to sales managers, driving performance across teams in Johannesburg. Candidates should possess significant sales leadership experience, ideally from a tech services background, with a strong track record in strategic planning and operational execution. This position offers a hybrid working model, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a sales leadership/management role within a global technology services organization.
• Proven track record managing financial results and business outcomes.
• Experience in media and strategic planning is essential.

Responsibilities

• Drive sales strategy and execution across the geography.
• Manage and lead senior sales teams to achieve results.
• Engage with vendors to develop go-to-market strategies.

Skills

Sales leadership

Strategic planning

Operational execution

Negotiation

Relationship management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business or marketing

Job description

Overview

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa | Category: Sales and Pre-Sales | Remote Type: Hybrid | Job Type: Full time

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Your day at NTT DATA
The Director, Go-To-Market Sales is a leadership role, responsible for providing direction to sales managers driving consistent results and performance across their sales teams. This role oversees a group of senior sales managers who manage quota bearing teams.

This leadership role often provides executive presence primarily to their teams in order to drive the execution of the strategy across the geography they are responsible for.

This leadership role has limited interaction with buyers but in instances where these interactions do occur, it will be at higher altitude levels in the account and will likely be of a strategic nature.

The Director, Go-To-Market Sales oversees, leads and manages a sales team within a region/country, ensuring the flawless execution of sales initiatives, activities and programs to meet sales revenue and strategy, while simultaneously fostering a collaborative and innovate team culture focused on operational excellence

Responsibilities

• Works with the Sales Executive and decision makers to assist with the development of a sales strategy that will deliver the strategic objectives as outlined in the global and regional organizational strategy.
• Defines the way the sales force will approach the market and to determine the targets that the sales force should achieve and strive to exceed.
• Drives a sales culture by sharing best practices, developing and sustaining cross functional relationships and filtering information downwards
• Provides input into sales policies and procedures, ensuring implementation and continuous improvement to drive business results.
• Drives the alignment to the sales and organizational strategies and ensures the execution of these strategies by implementing the relevant operational plans.
• Responsible for the management of the team, setting and managing budgets, creating and executing on plans and reporting on the team activities in the required forums.
• Engages with vendors and partners to develop and execute go-to-market strategies to be implemented by sales teams.
• Takes responsibility for closing the gap between buyer expectations and current-state sales models, engagement models and integration methods.
• Executes the sales strategy by making decisions that influence people, process and technology.
• Measures progress against objectives and ensure that the appropriate level of effort is applied across the sales team to handle the client’s reality.
• Coordinates sales activities across the geography to ensure that a consistent go-to-market approach is followed and that all clients are approached in a planned and coordinated way.
• Acts as a critical link between sales strategy and execution in the field and ensures that the end-state vision as determined by the executive team is achieved, whilst balancing buyer expectations.
• Sets sales targets and goals whilst making it easier for clients to buy, listening to client concerns, collecting reality-based evidence and enforcing standardized but flexible processes and methods across their teams.
• Develops and maintains strategic relationships with internal and external partners to the benefit of their clients.

Academic qualifications and certifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business or marketing or a related field.

Required experience

• Significant experience in a sales leadership/management role, preferably gained within a global technology services organization.
• Significant sales work experience gained within a similar environment.
• Significant strategic planning and operational execution experience.
• Significant media experience and evidence of previous work in this area is a must.
• Significant track record managing financial results and business outcomes.
• Significant experience negotiating on extremely critical matters.
• Significant go-to-market planning and execution experience.

Workplace type

Hybrid Working

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

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