Senior Director, Sales Operations Business Partner

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Senior Director, Sales Operations Business Partner

The Senior Director, Sales Operations Business Partner is recognized as the leading commercial strategist and business expert.  With a highly sophisticated understanding of customer needs, technology and competitor offerings this position will drive the strategic account strategy collaborating with all of the resources required to succeed while representing the entire range of IRM’s emerging portfolio of technology products and solutions.

As an experienced leader, the role will build lasting executive-level relationships with our clients to align their strategic priorities with our Iron Mountain solution suite and enable both the client’s and Iron Mountain’s growth. Success will ultimately be measured and rewarded by clearly defined key performance measures that include quota attainment, account revenue & margin growth, and customer satisfaction, retention & loyalty.

Responsibilities

• Go to market strategy & planning, Market Opportunity / Propensity to Buy
• Financial and capacity planning, territory design, and quota settings
• Process standardization and simplification. Communicate new and improved sales processes and tools to Global and regional sales and account management teams.
• Coach sales managers in sales performance management, and sales people in their use of core sales processes and tools: Territory and Account Plan, Pipeline Management, Deal Progression, Forecasting and Performances Management,
• Monitor the effectiveness of sales teams’ use of processes and tools to understand needs
• Administer changes required to support sales performance management and improve sales productivity.
• Support requirements for ad hoc performance reports.
• Reporting cadence (weekly, monthly, and quarterly business review)

Functional Knowledge, Skills & Competencies

• Results-oriented:  maximizing the business (Revenue and Margin) within the account; bent on growth; self-motivated and proactively seeking new opportunities with an urgency to move the market quickly
• Executive Presence:  creating new and strengthening existing executive level relationships to deeply understand motivations and preempt competitive inroads; coordinate the account team appropriately.   Ability to create and maintain formal and informal networks
• Collaborative:  internal team building to get the right people involved at the right time to produce the best outcomes; lead planning sessions that identify, qualify, position and close large strategic, transformative technology based solution deals
• Cross-functional, regional collaboration skill-set and excellent executive communications skills. Ability to navigate and collaborate across a large global organization and deal with ambiguity
• Program Management: working with the account management team, organizes the process to capture new Revenue from the customer; organize the cross-functional plan, the team required, and ensures things are done to completion. Build accountability into every plan, from the account plan to individual projects
• Customer Obsessed: expert at opportunity qualification in order to validate “fit for purpose” application of IRM’s offerings against defined customer strategic requirements. Strong presentation skills displaying complex solutions and business case frameworks internally, and in the course of client presentations

Business Expertise

• Bachelors in Business Administration or related field required, MBA preferred 
• 15+ year’s technology