National Sales Director - West
Saint Paul, MN 
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Job Description
The National Sales Director is responsible for managing a team of enterprise account executives charged with sales to State prospects and customers.


What You'll Do:
  • Meet sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions
  • Accomplish sales human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees in assigned districts; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions, planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures
  • Achieve sales operational objectives by contributing market sales information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; identifying trends; determining sales system improvements; implementing change
  • Establish sales objectives by creating a sales plan and quota in support of national objectives
  • Maintain and expand customer base by counseling enterprise account executives through account planning exercises and execution; building and maintaining rapport with key customers; identifying new customer opportunities through vertical account-based marketing tactics
  • Recommend product lines by identifying new platform opportunities, and/or product, packaging, and service changes; surveying consumer needs and trends; tracking competitors
  • Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks
  • Accomplish organizational objectives by meeting and/or exceeding quarterly quota attainment for the business unit
Who You Are:
  • Confident, competitive, thorough, flexible, and tenacious
  • Proven to be capable of managing a team of 8-10 sales people
  • Capable of coaching a selling team responsible for $100K+ deals as part of a diverse sales pipeline
  • Goal-oriented and self-motivated
  • Excited about managing multiple simultaneous priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Independently accountable for commitments and delivering the best performance by intelligent prioritization
  • Proven in your ability and passion for managing prospecting activity volume and related metrics
  • Skilled in executing account plans to scale state market growth overtime
You Have Demonstrated Many of the Following:
  • Passion for public sector success
  • Client focus - the desire and ability to understand the drivers of client needs
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills, both written and oral
  • Strong consultative approach to positioning services and technology to solve clients business challenges
  • Significant accomplishments selling enterprise software, ERP, SaaS, Marketing/Communications technology, or marketing services
  • Success selling to State enterprise government entities
  • Impressive track record of C-Level sales activity
  • Demonstrated effectiveness selling through partners, resellers, and/or integrators
  • 3+ years of field sales management experience in IT, Information Services, or Business Services and 8+ years of total field sales experience
Potential base salary. Does not include commission and benefits.
COMPENSATION RANGE: $125,000-165,000 USD

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Job Summary
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Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Experience
3+ years
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