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Sales Director

Objective

  • Directing the sales strategy for your territory, you will be responsible for the tactics and action plans to attract, engage, and win new business for the organisation.
  • Your duties will include collaborating within your established network, establishing new leads and converting opportunities into revenue generating accounts. You will work independently – leading by example to drive accuracy in forecasting and real achievements in identified target customer accounts.
  • Your role is crucial to drive business profitability and key commercial growth strategies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Driving territory activities and ensuring strong customer engagement on all fronts. 
  • Identifiying new sales opportunities by leveraging contacts, industry knowledge, and working closely with internal teams. 
  • Informing and reviewing territory/customer sales attack plans, and implementing appropriate sales and marketing strategies to achieve them. 
  • Projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products, and regularly reviewing/forecasting performance. 
  • Maintaining sales volume, product mix, and selling price by keeping up with supply and demand, changing trends, economic indicators, and competitors. 
  • Monitoring costs, competition, supply and demand. 
  • Forging strong internal business partnerships to deliver customer expectations and solutions. 
  • Establishing consistent sales development to maximize competitive position and generate strong margin contributions across customer brand(s). 
  • Conferring with sales leadership to review achievements and discuss required changes in product and sales strategies to achieve sales goals and objectives. 
  • Developing and negotiating contracts with customers and their procurement teams. 
  • Working with partners in relation to lead and revenue generation.

Educational Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field.

Technical Skills

  • Strong experience working within the Tower / Software sales Industry and familiarity with key market trends driving target customer requirements. 
  • 10 years working within software sales or carrier sales/product environments.
  • Demonstrable evidence of leading the commercial direction of a business, with a history of overachieving targets and proven success targeting and winning new business. 
  • Experience working in the telecommunications/network operator industry, in software sales, carrier sales or carrier product knowledge. 
  • Familiarity with best practice forecasting and strategic sales planning processes. 
  • Very comfortable with using CRM systems such as Salesforce is advantageous. 

How to Apply?

  • Kindly send us an email at jobs@tarantula.net with your updated resume and a cover letter.