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Sales Director: Southern, Eastern and Lusophone Africa
Job summary
A leading company is seeking a dynamic sales leader to guide its team and drive strategic growth within a fast-paced market. The ideal candidate will execute effective sales strategies, ensuring customer satisfaction and achieving financial targets while managing a high-performing team.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Proven track record of driving growth to exceed business objectives.
- Experience in crafting and developing sales strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to manage high-performing teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of sellers to exceed financial and business objectives.
- Develop and execute commercial strategies enhancing customer engagement.
- Attract, retain and grow a high-performance sales function.
Skills
About the Business
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below, risk.lexisnexis.com
About our Team
Are you looking to join an industry-leading sales organisation? Our sales team is dedicated to partnering with organisations to address and solve complex risk problems. At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, we pride ourselves in providing solutions that directly impact our customers' ability to mitigate and manage risk.
About the Role
You'll lead our business strategically, ensuring profitable growth in a fast-expanding market. As a people leader, your role involves crafting and executing commercial strategies to seize market opportunities, enhance customer engagement, and surpass targets. You'll be a key leader, shaping business strategy, managing a team of sellers in a defined territory, and working alongside your team to nurture crucial customer relationships. Your responsibilities also include promoting customer-centricity across the business and driving best practices company-wide.
Responsibilities
• Exceeding financial and wider business objectives
• Attracting, retaining and growing a high-performance sales function
• Coaching and management of the sales team leveraging Insight Selling methodology and demonstrating and executing our best practices framework.
• Leading, developing, inspiring and motivating your team to deliver against business and team objectives
• Deploying resources into areas of best impact to execute on market strategy
• Increasing both customer and employee satisfaction, engagement, mission impact, loyalty, innovation and revenue
• Developing a deep understanding of customer workflow, market trends, opportunity and threats.
Qualifications
• Proven track record of driving growth to exceed financial and other business objectives in complex customer organisations.
• Show examples working cross-functionally to create high performance organisations
• Be well versed in creating and developing sales strategies to maximise go-to-market resource and execute against market opportunity.
• Demonstrate extensive experience of C level commercial negotiations
• Be passionate about a world-class customer experience
• Proven track record of leading teams in value-based, customer-centric buying methodologies and exceeding objectives and financial goals
• Proven ability to identify, hire and develop high performing talent and managing under performance
• Able to champion diversity and representation, as well as leading proactive succession planning and talent management to improve customer outcomes
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working Pattern
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
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