SLED Sales Director, Pacific Northwest & Mountain States

Job Description

The SLED Sales Director, Pacific Northwest & Mountain States is a sales management role responsible for leading a sales team of 7 or so highly skilled, seasoned sales individuals consisting of Client Executives. The ideal candidate for this position will be an effective senior sales leader, a self-starter who takes initiative and works with limited direction, and a highly trusted individual who maintains and expects high standards for self and team. He/she will be involved in the entire customer value focused sales cycle. The sales related responsibilities of this candidate may include business development, requirements gathering, leading the development of value-added solutions, articulating VMware’s point of view and value proposition, and conducting sales presentations to C-level customer executives. SLED experience is mandatory.

Responsibilities:

• You will possess strong leadership skills and the ability to build a complex sales strategy to ensure both short and long-term goals, objectives and quotas
• Act as the front-line executive who recruits, hires, develops, coaches, and manages a high performing SLED sales team
• Generally, splits time 50 – 50 between managing a team and customer interfacing calls
• Compose complex proposals
• Manages all aspects of the region: opportunity, pipeline development/progression, forecasting and reporting
• Maintains Operational Excellence in forecasting and pipeline
• Works closely with new, as well as established, channel partners to generate new business opportunities
• Works collaboratively across all VMware business units and business partners while identifying new areas of strategic domestic and international business growth and partnership opportunities between our organizations
• Work closely with the Sr. Director of Channel Sales and Director of Inside Sales to ensure that Partner and Inside Sales teams are providing sufficient support and on-track to contribute to achieving bookings and pipeline goals
• Collaborates well with other SLED regions and cross functional teams

Requirements:

• 12+ years of sales experience in the IT industry, preferable in Enterprise software
• 7+ years of high-level management experience of 6 or more direct reports in a fast paced, highly competitive, ever-changing sales environment within the Enterprise Software Marketplace
• 6 + years’ experience in Face-to-face Opportunity Identification, Selling to Data Center Executives, Leveraging Partners/Solution Providers, Business Case and Proposal
• 6+ years of experience in the positioning and selling of Cloud, Mobility and data center solutions.
• Minimum of 12 years in quota carrying sales role with demonstrated achievement
• Proven ability to work effectively with and across all levels of business and IT contacts within very large and complex organizations
• Extensive experience negotiating large 7-figure deals with extremely complex terms, conditions, price pressures and considerations
• History of coordination within an internal set of multi-functional teams such as Systems Engineers, Inside Sales Reps, Field Marketing, Professional Services, and Partner/Channel and Overlay Specialists teams.
• BA/BS degree or higher is preferred
• Ability to travel 50-60% of the time

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