Director - Sales Management

Accelerating Growth Leads the development and implementation of go-to-market for maximizing revenue, consumption, and growth across solution areas. Ensures area/territory plans leverage market-specific insights to highlight solutions that solve additional business and technology challenges. Provides guidance on customer planning execution ensuring short- and long-term strategies are acted upon and directs teams utilize available programs to drive growth. Communicates and reinforces the importance of security, governance, and responsible use of AI as part of enterprise transformation. Consults with customers and internal/external Partners to ensure successful and secure value realization in delivery of solutions to customers. Drives and coaches team to orchestrate across units and Partners to accelerate and leverage innovative transformation opportunities. Educates internal partners on industry trends and solutions. Supports efforts to expand relationships across customers' lines of business that enable innovative solutions, deliver business value, and create market growth. Applies industry and market expertise, proactively leading team(s) towards identifying solutions to drive new opportunities and strategies in alignment with customers needs. Serves as a subject matter expert in relevant local trade, regulatory, and policy environments (e.g., opening doors and removing barriers for sales teams, partners, and customers) across geographic areas. Coaches others to tailor customer engagement for specific industries with relevant customer references and shares best practices with teams. Identifies and creates customer references for repeatable areas of success in select or strategic industries to develop a competitive advantage and to articulate ability to deliver customer value to achieve outcomes. Shares feedback from experience and expertise in industry to support the development of programs that scale and accelerate successful engagements. Driving Success with and Through Others Influences and works across segments, partners, and teams to drive growth and transformation, ensure alignment on short- and long-term account plans, define sale execution, and holds the team accountable for results beyond fiscal year boundaries. Defines where orchestration is needed for success, creates new points of entry for integration and collaboration, sets the tone for an organizational culture of inclusion. Shares best practices for managing competing priorities, reducing complexity for customers; while maintaining a high level of accountability. Coaches team(s) on the development of go-to-market strategies based on mutual business needs, and scaling across markets and/or globally. Builds and maintains a broad executive network inclusive of partners. Supports and influences engagements between partners and executives on long-term business planning, the development of strategic partnerships, and influencing customer needs and outcomes. Directs and influences teams to maintain relationships with an ongoing long-term focus that looks past quarterly and annual targets. Creates a rhythm of business (RoB) with customers and partners that enables continuous engagement. Fosters a culture of inclusion, learning, mentorship, coaching, customer-centricity, accountability, collaboration, and achievement of bold goals. Encourages managers and individuals across the organization to motivate, engage, and bring teams together. Leads a diverse and inclusive workforce, creates and hires a diverse team, and fosters an inclusive working environment via well-established inclusive behaviors. Identifies and rewards high performing individuals and supports their growth into more senior positions. Leading and Transforming the Business Coaches ongoing customer value realization and satisfaction contributing to net-new revenue and business growth. Holds team(s) accountable for customer value realization and satisfaction, and coaches on semi-annual survey results. Ensures teams safeguard sensitive customer information by embedding Secure Future Initiative principles into daily sales execution (e.g., least?privilege access, secure collaboration, disciplined data sharing, and proactive risk reduction to protect customer trust). Orchestrates internal and external resources to focus on continuous improvement, focusing on key areas of improvements to further impact increasing customer value realization and satisfaction. Proactively monitors and influences relationships with multiple customer stakeholders (business and IT) and the collection of feedback to identify and understand the drivers of business value, satisfaction and sentiments. Understands customers' and partners' business models and helps them to evolve and achieve growth by ensuring internal alignment with external partners' needs. Understands portfolio of strategic partners (Global Systems Integrator (GSI), Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and supports engagement across teams. Drives the business within the segment, creating clarity on strategic direction with managers and teams to enable revenue growth by addressing business and competitive needs. Facilitates orchestration amongst internal teams and holds others accountable, incorporating security adherence into accountabilities. Collaborates and influences across segments, partners, and internal stakeholders to drive growth and transformation across accounts. Ensures key stakeholders and/or leaders are aligned across teams (e.g., Enterprise Operations Unit, Global Partner Solutions), and making progress on mutual plans and objectives. Drives teams to deliver success for business accountabilities while maintaining secure operations, adhering to compliance and data security standards through opportunity development. Leads team(s) to consistently leverage customer/partner insights and market strategies to identify opportunities to drive consumption, new cloud solutions, and annuity business. Influences team to apply a growth and customer/partner mindset to enable Digital & Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformation and offer business solutions that enable customer value realization and drive market share growth. Leads and aligns team(s) to customer, partner, compete and market strategies that drive sales, consumption, and Digital & Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformation solutions. Collaborates with teams and managers to develop strategic initiatives, achieve targets, and effectively build and manage pipelines that deliver growth and customer/partner value realization. Leads sales team(s) by example, driving high-value engagements and creating trusted partnerships with customers and partners. Oversees and drives balance in business, financial, and people outcomes across accounts and areas of the business. Manages customer planning efforts across accounts to ensure individuals and teams drive end-to-end orchestration for customer value realization and outcomes. Aligns teams to long-term expectations and goals to consistently leverage opportunities and execute on market sales strategies. People Management Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Master's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 5+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 6+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR equivalent experience. 2+ years direct/formal, indirect/informal, and/or project team people management experience. Master's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 6+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 10+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR equivalent experience. 2+ years experience leading teams and/or managers in a Sales organization. 4+ years direct/formal, indirect/informal, and/or project team people management experience. Sales Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,000 - $222,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $170,300 - $239,800 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.