Enterprise Sales Director (Existing Business) - (Remote 25-55)

*** Home Based Office

Working with and reporting to the Division Vice President of Sales, the Enterprise Sales Director (ESD) will represent, present, demonstrate, negotiate, and sell Spok’s suite of solutions to current customers, prospects, consultants, and business partners.  The role is focused on growing the current customer base; opportunities vary from upgrades, add-ons, and enterprise deals. This role will identify expansion opportunities in our existing client base to ultimately build a sales pipeline and generate new revenue. This role will identify, develop and close new business opportunities within the territory.

 Responsibilities

>Maintain accuracy of the sales pipeline, contacts, and activities in Salesforce and other reporting tools.

>Maintain complete knowledge of each account's current and long-term purchase plans and objectives, keeping management informed of all changes in plans, objectives, and key buying influences.

>Develop and maintain consultative sales relationships with all key buying influences in each account, at the executive and senior management levels, and other levels within the customer's organization.

>Demonstrate the entire company solution, services, and hardware portfolio.

>Attend company tradeshows and conferences regionally and nationally when required.

>Respond to and lead RFP/RFI’s and price systems and configurations.

>Educate and coach business partners, and assist in their prospecting, qualification, proposals, presentations, and closing opportunities.

>Exceed Annual Booking Targets.

>Responsible for increasing revenue and market share within assigned territory.

>Direct sales activities include prospecting, deal qualification, deal velocity, contract negotiations and closing business within current customer base and new business growth outside of the current base for Spok.

>Establish a relationship with consultants to help influence opportunities.

>Develop and maintain a relationship with key internal resources to ensure successful collaboration to meet customer needs.

>Develop a selling relationship with the Channel Partners.                                              

 Required Skills/Experience

>Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; and 4- 5 years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

>MUST HAVE Direct healthcare sales experience selling enterprise software solutions 

>Demonstrated proficiency in managing complex sales cycles typically defined as six months or longer with multiple stakeholders, decision-makers, and influencers.

>Proven history of large, multi-product enterprise sales greater than $100,000, or previous Spok software sales experience

>Current active contacts with healthcare industry executives within the territory; CMO, CNO, CIO and/or CEO

>Demonstrated understanding of workflow redesign involving technology/software solutions.

>Committed to sales methodology such as Helping Clients Succeed, Solution Selling, The Complex Sale, etc.

>Proficient in use of internal systems for accuracy in forecasting (CRM, Salesforce, Quoting tools, etc.)

>Successful record of communicating the business value of strategic software solutions to healthcare executives including CIO, CMIO, CNO, CFO, COO, etc.

>Knowledge of how the ACA, ACO’s, insurance companies and other factors influence decisions that healthcare executives make on their buying of technology.

>Demonstrated understanding of clinical workflow in healthcare organizations.

>Demonstrated understanding of healthcare procurement procedures and sales cycles.

>Ability and passion to call suspects, prospects, and leads generated from Marketing.

>Robust interpersonal skills with evidence of teamwork and collaboration

>Exceptional written and verbal communication ski