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Director, Sales Licensing Executive

United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Apr 2025

💰 $150,000/yr($120,000/yr – $150,000/yr)

About the role

Company Overview: When it comes to IT solution providers, there are a lot of choices. But when it comes to providers with innovative and differentiating end-to-end service offerings, there’s really only one: Zones – First Choice for IT.TM Zones is a Global Solution Provider of end-to-end IT solutions with an unmatched supply chain. Positioned to be the IT partner you need, Zones, a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) in business for over 35 years, specializes in Digital Workplace, Cloud & Data Center, Networking, Security, and Managed/Professional/Staffing services. Operating in more than 120 countries, leveraging a robust portfolio, and utilizing the highest certification levels from key partners, including Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Lenovo, Adobe, and more, Zones has mastered the science of building digital infrastructures that change the way business does business ensuring whatever they need, they can Consider IT Done. Follow Zones, LLC on Twitter @Zones, and LinkedIn and Facebook. Position Overview: The Director Software Sales is a PPM Director position that leads a sales overlay team of Licensing Executives and Licensing Advisors, to land, and expand software sales and solutions. This is a rewarding opportunity to work with one of the leading IT companies in the world. You will be responsible for building the comprehensive Go-To-Market strategy to increase software sales across all of Zones software partners with the goal of landing and expanding net new software sales, while staying ahead of market dynamics and partner changes. You will build and identify additional opportunities by fostering and expanding on customer and partner relationships, cultivating additional revenue opportunities and collaborating with our Sales and Technical sales divisions. We will expect you to achieve aggregate revenue growth, margin, and profitability objectives, effectively manage all key financial metrics, and ensure your teams perform the same tasks. You will be responsible for staying on top of new market solutions, defining, and adapting the software strategy to ensure Zones have the right software partner mix and offerings based on customer demand and partner focus. You will work with Sales Enablement to ensure sales, and your team have the proper training to succeed in selling our software solutions based on customer outcomes. This role requires rapid adaptability to pivot based on market conditions to ensure profitability and that we are taking advantage of partner rebates and incentives. Additionally, this role requires working with pre-sales and our cloud team to drive your team to execution with key cloud and software strategies, and institute repeatable factory like sales motions across the entire line. Along the way, you will support your team by providing leadership, coaching, and development opportunities. What you’ll do as the Director of Software Sales: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Set direction to guide and execute the go-to-market strategies for all software categories of responsibility to attain software growth targets.

Establish and execute best in class go-to-market strategy for the software category
Establish Managed/Strategic Partners
Develop strong channel relationships and executive engagement
Work across categories where partner relationships span multiple categories to maximize vendor exposure and growth/profitability
Develop, execute, and oversee procedures and best practices to expand software sales and increase customer margin
Lead team to attain and exceed software sales and margin targets
Work with PPM to exceed key managed software partner targets to exceed VIR and rebates.

Achieve aggregate revenue and profitability growth objectives for all software categories of responsibility by ensuring that you team do the following:

Ensure that License Executives (LE’s) and License Advisors (LA’s) promote and manage high-velocity software partners and solutions on a daily basis
Work closely with the Revenue and Retention team to ensure customers are adopting and renewing software.
Utilize Zones Marketing vehicles to create a broad awareness campaign to drive customer acquisition and development through Zones channels (SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, Healthcare and Public Sector)