Field Sales Director, Major Accounts, North Central (Chicago)

You will report to our VP, Sales, Major Accounts.

Attributes:

• Authentic: Does the right thing and does not oversell themselves or the customer, uses a consultative selling approach that promotes honesty and puts the customer first and solves their needs not his/her own.
• Active Listener: Are completely present and engaged when they talk to prospects creating deeper and more meaningful conversations that build strong relationships and unlock more information about value and business outcomes.
• Hard Worker: A players continue to cold call and prospect, a BDR just scales them. They are still working on the last day of the quarter, still contacting customers and setting meetings even though they hit their number, this ensures the next quarter is just as good as the last
• Proactive: Are they on top of it? Organization and an ability to lean-in can be hard to find. These traits indicate a sales person who can rectify a deal when it goes south and work independently. They show evidence of prior research (reviewing a website, try to understand the product, read a 10K), they follow up an interview and a sales call. They preempt issues. This is great relationship management that builds trust.
• Inquisitive: The successful are naturally curious, use open ended questions, seek to learn about different parts of the business or subject and can synthesize responses to articulate a strategy or solution on the fly.
• Ethical: Act in the best interest of the company with transparency.

Traits and Skills:

• Effective verbal and written communication
• Enthusiastic and energetic in nature, can lead a room
• Empathetic, can read a room
• Competitive by nature
• Hate to lose over love
• to win and know the difference between the two
• Can detail fundamental sales concepts of account planning
• Understand and use channel effectively
• Have adopted a sales process and qualification methodology
• Metric driven, can understand pipeline, deal sizing, targets and know them

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise software sales with a focus on hunter roles and new customer acquisition & pipeline growth
• 5+ years of experience working in the cyber security sales space
• Outstanding track record of success managing enterprise accounts and opportunities to closure, consistent over-attainment of quotas of $1M annual recurring revenue.
• Proficient with and unafraid of 6 and 7 figure deals.
• Strong network of established relationships with key industry and channel contacts in the assigned territory
• Previous cybersecurity experience
• Proven track record of quota retirement in excess of 95% of target
• Understands record keeping, sales process, sales methodologies (MEDDPIC, etc)
• Driven and competitive