Regional Sales Director

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If you have a passion for technology, are driven, creative, and like to have fun, come join LiveAction on growing the next generation of award-winning networking tools. Our staff enjoys great benefits and a healthy, high-quality work environment that encourages innovation.

POSITION DESCRIPTION: Regional Sales Director, Italy

Location: Italy

We’re looking for an enterprise sales executive with a proven track record of exceeding large quota targets, an ability to foster strong executive-level customer engagement and has a demonstrable history of outstanding business management and collaborative skills. The Regional Sales Manager is responsible for increasing LiveAction market penetration, exceeding quarterly booking targets, and growing the book of business year over year. Must reside in region.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the go-to-market sales strategies for existing and new accounts in alignment with the company strategy.
• Manage complex sales situation and large projects, including lead qualification, opportunity development, deal negotiation, closing, and product turn up.
• Build and nurture customer relationships to achieve business goals and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Orchestrate partner / distributor resources to drive opportunities to close.
• Work with Partner Account Managers (AM) to scale through the partner channel and engage in joint selling opportunities to increase regional revenue return.
• Work closely with the engineering team to create integrated solutions that address complex problems focused on LiveAction’s value proposition.
• Work closely with the marketing team to continually update and refine solution positioning / messaging based on customer feedback and interaction.
• Present at industry events / tradeshows.

Qualifications

• Italian and fluent English speaker
• Seven or more years of competitive Enterprise New Business and / or Account Management experience in the network industry.
• Experience in developing business in an assigned territory to achieve pipeline growth over 100%. Proven track record of achieving or exceeding set sales targets throughout career history.
• Strong interpersonal skills (executive presence).
• Outstanding collaborator across groups and organizations.
• Ability to prioritize in a fast-paced rapidly changing environment.
• Knowledge of working with complex strategic accounts, including calls on key decision makers (CIOs, CISOs) and all other levels.
• Knowledge of Italy, Africa & Middle-East market is valuable to your ramp-up
• Be able to position enterprise network solutions and articulate strategies to senior partner executives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Business, or equivalent.
• Experience with partner community is required and understanding the competitive landscape is a plus.
• Excellent relationship building and creative consultative selling skills.
• Must be able to engage and manage cross-functional / virtual resources as part of an extended team.
• Strong verbal and presentation skills, including extensive experience leveraging virtual tools.
• Proficient in Salesforce, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint. Word, GoToMeeting, WebEx
• Enthusiastic and creative team player.
• Understanding of large business organizations and their buying cycles is preferred.
• Able to travel approximately 60% of the time and to work from home.