Client Director, Strategics - Automotives

We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here, you lead with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest team in the industry.

This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us.

This Role
Pure Storage is seeking an operationally sound, accomplished, and highly motivated Client Director with a strong background in managing and leading teams. This role will be responsible for setting the executive strategy and direction for one or more global accounts within the World Wide Strategic, Automotive team.

In this role, you'll be actively involved in strategic sales activities while also guiding and managing a team of individual contributors aligned with your accounts. The successful candidate will already have strong, established business relationships at the executive level, lead key sales presentations, and provide strategic direction to the sales team while coordinating multiple resources within an account to successfully close business for Pure Storage.

What You Will Be Doing

• Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the overall business strategy for the global accounts under your purview, aligning it with Pure Storage's broader organizational goals and financial targets.
• Team Development: Lead and inspire a high-performance sales culture that represents Pure and delivers results in bookings, sales development, and forecast accuracy while simultaneously mentoring and developing your team.
• Operational Excellence: Drive operational excellence through data-driven analysis and deep dives into regular territory pipeline and forecasting activities to refine strategies and close deals effectively.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, Marketing, and Customer Success, to ensure that the sales strategy aligns with product development and customer satisfaction initiatives.
• Change Management: Provide leadership, oversight, and change management to the extended Pure Storage team aligned with your accounts, ensuring seamless execution of strategic initiatives.
• Accountability and Goal Achievement: Hold both the team and yourself accountable to achieve challenging goals while maintaining a forward-thinking approach that anticipates future market trends.
• Executive Communication: Communicate with leaders at all levels, including C-suite, to establish open and trusting relationships that facilitate the alignment of business objectives and strategies.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure the long-term success of global accounts.
• Financial Oversight: Oversee the financial performance of your accounts, including budget management, revenue forecasting, and profitability analysis, ensuring alignment with Pure Storage's financial goals.
• Client Advocacy: Act as the primary advocate for your clients within Pure Storage, ensuring that their needs are met and that they receive the highest level of service.

What You Bring To The Team

• Revenue Generation: Instrumental in developing and managing your accounts to generate revenue and achieve individual, team, and organizational quotas.
• Global Leadership: Proven leader of direct and globally matrixed teams; demonstrating 7+ successful years of global field sales management.
• Industry Expertise: Advanced skill set and past or current experience working and selling into the Tier 1 Automotive industry.
• High-Value Sales: Experience running large revenue streams of [$100M+], with a proven track record of closing large, single deals with Global Enterprise customers.
• Technical Proficiency: In-depth technical knowledge of Pure’s portfolio with the ability to take a holistic approach to create business solutions for customers.
• Business Acumen: Ability to create a business case justifying a desired investment with the results and revenue it will drive, utilizing both data and an elevated level of business acumen.
• Influence and Credibility: Credibility, savvy, and influence to both understand and scale up and down a customer's organization.
• Global Account Navigation: The ability to adeptly navigate around a global account and quickly understand the internal dynamics.