Director, Strategic Sales Development

Bellevue, WA, United States

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Acumatica is hiring a Director, Strategic Sales Development. In this role, you will lead and manage a team of Strategic Sales Development Managers (SSDMs) to improve our win rates of opportunities through effective engagement with partners and overall sales process improvement. This is a full-time job reporting to the Senior Vice President, Partner Sales.

Responsibilities:

Build and manage a team of Strategic Sales Development Managers aligned with product verticals:

Understands performance metrics of team members, and mentor and guide SSDM’s in areas of improvement. Must beanalytical in approach and proactively intervene as needed to keep performance high.

Provides wholistic vision and inspiration to achieve greatness as a team.

Engage and collaborate with partners who are not meeting standards and drive continuous improvement.

Ensure SSDMs professional participation in representation of Acumatica in trade shows and responding to and pro-actively building off event connections and leads.

Engage with Inside sales teams in managing effective transition of opportunities.

Collaborate with Partner Account Managers (PAMs) in interactions with partners.

Engage with other stakeholders, such as Product Managers, to provide market driven feedback on product enhancements and improvements.

Assist in introduction of new products to the market by deep engagements with prospects, creating a sales playbook and assisting in creation of related training content for our partners

Identify, design, develop and implement market-driven strategies to achieve revenue goals and the company’s mission.

Proactively build and implement methods and strategies to go deeper into large accounts and determine where direct sales would be most effective.

Promote a customer-oriented focus and advocate consultative customer relationships.

Develop and maintain high-profile external relationships within customer constituents, professional organizations, etc. (public relations presence).

Qualifications: Minimum 5 + years of successful experience in developing and building strategic partnerships that help build foundation for revenue; experience both in channel and direct selling environments.

Bachelor’s degree in business or related field.

Fully understand our complete Partner ecosystem.

Broad knowledge of all Acumatica industry product editions. An expert in at least one (construction, manufacturing, commerce, distribution, finance).

Results-oriented:You love the doing and the process, but you are all about results. You have excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, including the ability to effectively prioritize and execute activities in a high-pressure just in time environment. You adhere to and analyze standards and procedures for workflow and change management.

Superb Communicator: You have outstanding verbal and written communication skills with domestic and international customers, both external and internal

Great with Customers:You have an ability to establish a great report with people, and you have a track record working with customers. You work successfully alongside external and internal customers who are technical and non-technical when executing your daily responsibilities and contributing to cross-functional projects of broad scope

Strong Business Acumen: Understanding of agency, advertiser, marketing, and vendor landscapes; reporting structures of these to the organizations, who are the major players, how do they buy, from whom and the macro and micro forces that shift tactical budgets and strategic direction

Strategic Thinker with a keen ability to make recommendations to move the business forward

Cultural Evangelist who nurtures high standards of effort and performance, and drives accountability for sustained and predictable results

Ability to forge strong, positive, on-going senior level relationships with customers and partners

Role model for collaboration; know how to leverage roles and relationships to achieve success

Acumatica is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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For this role, the salary range is $180,000-$205,000 annually. This range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job and may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant elements.

At Acumatica, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.

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