The Vice President – Sales is responsible for defining and delivering against a sales strategy for the allocated territory, building and leading a high performing sales team, to deliver against our growth goals.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Sales Strategy
- Create a sales strategy for the allocated market territory to build on our successes and achieve greater growth
- Participate with sales leadership to build a sustainable and differentiated plan that enables us to win more $10m+ global RPO contracts
- Identify and track targeted accounts, ensuring alignment to our sectors and business priorities
- Ensure our value proposition and sales strategy remains closely aligned with the business needs, balanced against market expectations.
Sales management and execution
- Create and lead a high performing sales team, focusing on effective performance, allocation of responsibilities, coaching and development
- Implement cadences for reporting, reviews, team collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Ensure effective implementation of Cielo sales policies and processes (e.g. Sales Playbook, deal desk, Salesforce and growth tech stack usage etc)
- Collaborate with colleagues to consult on changes to sales policy and process
- Review pipeline and take appropriate action to ensure appropriate progress in the pipeline; provide business updates on progress, escalate concerns
- Manage large, complex sales deals through to close
- Create and manage to budget
- Act as a thought leader in the industry; forge relationships with key people.
- Work with bid and solutions to create innovative approaches that drive business value; participate in sales pitches and events
Partnership Initiatives
- Partner closely with Sector MD’s and other members of client services
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues across Revenue Operations
- Provide insights into the Americas markets to colleagues
- Actively participate as a member of the Global Leadership Team
- Seek cross selling opportunities and collaborate with colleagues as appropriate
Position Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
Experience:
- Significant experience in successfully winning complex, multi-country RPO contracts
- Proven track record of managing a team of successful sales professionals
- Experience building relationships with senior level stakeholders, internally and externally
- Experience of building a sales strategy
Exposure:
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication, verbal and written
- Proven negotiation skills
- Ability to influence at all levels
- Creative thinker, can demonstrate identifying creative solutions
- Business acumen
- Active learner, keeps up to date with latest RPO, HR, and business trends
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.