Director, Enterprise Sales

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The Role

The Director - Enterprise Sales (North America) in General Assembly (GA) is a senior sales leader role accountable for sales performance, the profitable achievement of sales goals, and aligning sales objectives with Enterprise business strategy. 

This role is responsible for developing the U.S. strategic sales plans based on Enterprise goals that will promote sales growth and customer satisfaction for the organization. The Director will oversee a team of Senior Account Directors for large enterprise market teams focusing on multiple growth industries.

The Director - Enterprise Sales (U.S.) will report to the SVP, Head of Enterprise and align their team’s objectives with global sales strategy through active participation in strategic planning & execution.  

Roles and Responsibilities include:

The ideal candidate will be a hands-on, front line sales leader, managing day to day sales discipline, forecasting & pipeline management. You will be a proven leader with in-depth industry experience and a true passion for serving clients’ Workforce Transformation needs (through Customized Instructor-Led Training and Talent Pipeline Solutions). You must have exceptional people management skills, a record of building high-performance teams and outstanding relationships with internal and external customers. A strong work ethic and proactive communication skills that encourage courageous conversations are a must.

You will establish and maintain productive peer-to-peer relationships with customers and prospects. You will be accountable for sales strategy development, sales organization design, forecasting, sales resource planning, strategic direction for promotion and advertising, sales growth, and customer satisfaction and budgeting. You will provide leadership to the sales team while fostering a culture of accountability, professional development, high-performance, and ethical behavior.

Must have a deep understanding of developing a methodology to oversee the setting of revenue, account, and market share growth objectives while leading a team to achieve these objectives.

Requirements and Experience:

• Substantial experience and positive track record for leading a sales organization in the US, including a proven record of consultative sales success with large national and global accounts
  
  
• Strong experience in developing long term sales strategy and go-to-market plan
  
  
• Aggressive competitor in new business arena and winning business must matter to this individual
  
  
• Proven track record of growing both existing and new service offerings
  
  
• Ability to harness and align internal resources to drive sales growth
  
  
• Ability to create processes & harness tech for driving efficient and strategic sales activities
  
  
• Senior C-suite network throughout the US large enterprise, specifically fortune 500-1000
  
  
• Experience in developing and managing senior stakeholders at C level
  
  
• Experience in conducting monthly/quarterly/yearly strategic business reviews with senior stakeholders
  
  
• Lead negotiation of prices and contracts, and understand the legal ramifications of contracts
  
  
• Strong ‘bottom-line’ financial orientation, as well as sales orientation balanced with solid general management skills
  
  
• Experience in selling bespoke and standard off the shelf products
  
  
• Experience with hiring and building strategic sales teams
  
  
• Highly organized, disciplined and success-motivated
  
  
• Must know about competitors/competitive programs and of the GA differentiators that enable us to sell and close business successfully
  
  
• Ability to travel in the US as and when required