Sales Manager: Enterprise & Global Accounts

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Sales Manager for Enterprise & Global Accounts to lead a team of account managers across Gauteng and national/global clients. You will set strategic direction, build pipelines, and drive revenue growth through large-scale, complex deals while coaching high-performing teams.

You will manage key relationships with senior stakeholders, ensure accurate forecasts, and develop operating plans aligned with the company's direct sales strategy.

Qualifications

• Experience closing Enterprise client deals including large and complex business cases.
• Ability to manage global customers and navigate regulatory complexities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Set objectives and KPIs for Enterprise and Global teams to grow market share and revenue.
• Drive pipeline development and accurate sales forecasting.
• Lead transformation towards digital solutions for existing and new clients.
• Build relationships with senior stakeholders and negotiate/close key deals.
• Provide accurate forecasts, account plans, and regular reports to leadership.
• Identify customer requirements and propose customized, cross-sell solutions.
• Develop sales operating plans and integrate with the direct sales strategy.
• Recruit and develop a high-performing sales team and manage budgets.

Skills

Enterprise sales

Global accounts

Forecasting

Team leadership

Strategic planning

Negotiation

Education

Related tertiary qualification

Job description

About the job Sales Manager: Enterprise & Global Accounts

To manage a team of highly skilled Account Managers in the Enterprise and Global channels, providing strategic direction and planning to achieve budgeted and targeted sales and growth. The Enterprise customers are Gauteng based and the Global accounts are based nationally. Enterprise Accounts are typically large, major, and key accounts with more than 350 PC users within an organisation. Whilst Global accounts are strategic customers of Company with global contracts concluded centrally around the world, with a presence or headquartered in South-Africa.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy objectives and key results (KPIs) for the Enterprise and Global teams to increase marketshare, achieve revenue and profitability targets that will include tracking and measuring daily, weekly andmonthly sales and client contact activities
• Drive the team to create a strong pipeline and accurate and reliable sales forecast
• Drive the team to move away from traditional office automation sales approaches and to enable the evolutionfor their Sales teams in offering existing and new, innovative Digital solutions to both existing client base andselected new target growth areas
• Take responsibility of key and/or complex business development leads, building relationships withstakeholders, and negotiating and closing these deals
• Prepare accurate sales forecasts, account-based plans and reports, and recommendations to enhanceaccount growth and revenue potential
  Ensure proper qualification of sales leads/opportunities and provide high quality opportunity managementduring all phases of the sales cycle
• Identify customer requirements that may necessitate customized and complex solutions to cross sell andincrease wallet share on each account Jointly develop Sales Operating plans and integrate them back into the overall Direct Sales strategic plan
• Identify and propose new products to on-board to supply to the changing demands of the customers tocompete across all lines of business
• Recruit top sales talent and develop a high performing, results oriented sales team with an entrepreneurialspirit
• Meet/exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual sales targets and forecasts
  Develop a high-energy team spirit, coaching and motivating Enterprise and Global Account Managers tosucceed
• Manage the performance and development of staff
• Build deep understanding of the customer's business and industry / vertical market
  
• Skills development and personal development plans for Account Managers
• Manage the expense budget for the Enterprise & Global Account team
• Integration into the Global Company organization forming part of several committees and global priority projects

REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• Related tertiary qualification advantageous
• Between 10-15 years managerial experience working with Senior
• Management teams and Board level customer and internal stakeholders
• Experience in closing Enterprise client deals, including large and complex business case and understanding
  of complex P&Ls
• Experience in dealing with Global customers, regulatory and legal complexities
• Knowledge around legal, regulatory, commercial, and operational considerations in large enterprise business
• Ability to articulate and execute strategic vision and planning provided by executive management team
• Demosrative Perspective. Displays a deep understanding of key business trends and the organisations
  position within the business environment
• Demonstrated ability to understand the business requirements of the customer and build solutions that
  address the business needs
• People management skills ability to lead, develop, coach, motivate and handle conflict
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent numeric, qualitative, and analytical skills Strive for good deals and overall profitable deals that make financial sense to Company, increase long termrelationships with clients and display total commitment to customer & service satisfaction
• Increase market coverage & prospecting intensity
• Have decision-making & problem-solving ability, and administrative skills
• Should be able to work well under pressure and handle a busy workload
• Display qualities of professionalism regarding time-keeping, dress code and conduct
• Exceptional honesty & integrity
• Totally focused on Sales Targets with high closing ratios
• Show high levels of drive, energy & enthusiasm
• Understand and make use of appropriate incentives, and activities to boost sales
• Be able to take decisive action when dealing with sales staff that are unable to perform to the requiredstandards
• Discipline staff in the appropriate manner, facilitate feedback and course correction through coaching &personal appraisal
• Act promptly when issues of conflict arise within the team, no perceptions of favoritism
• Reduce Sales staff turnover
• Sales process knowledge & strong account management know-how, creating & utilising sales process
  controls & procedures
• Identify and propose solutions to internal processes and interdepartmental challenges
• OTHER REQUIREMENTS
  Required to travel from time to time

SCOPE FOR IMPACT

• The role holder will be required to manage the Enterprise and Global Account teams in Gauteng and will form part of the
• Direct Leadership team reporting directly to the Sales Director.
  Internal
• The role holder will be required to provide mentoring and coaching support to all team members and be
  approachable, visible, and open to new ideas of the team.
• The manager is expected to carry out regular weekly one on ones, team meetings and have developmentconversations on a regular basis. The role holder is expected to focus on supporting their team on how to delive the end results.
  
• The role holder will be a senior manager within the business and is expected to champion the Company Way core
  values, its people development strategy and where required support other departments such as HR as well as
  promote new initiatives throughout their teams and the wider business.