Director/Senior Manager/Manager, Sales Development - Canada

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Sales

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About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

As a 1st or 2nd line Sales Leader you will be leading a team of Business Development Representatives or Business Development Managers selling the entire Salesforce Customer Success Platform across multiple verticals. We are looking for a sales leader with great energy, leadership, and initiative to drive team performance and sales for our enterprise team. You will formulate and implement a strategy to increase business growth. This role works in partnership with Sales, Marketing, Pre-sales, Partner Alliances, Services & HR, therefore cross-company engagement and orchestration is crucial. The candidate will be a high impact individual capable of driving outstanding business results & first-class employee development. The Sales Leader is fully responsible for developing and leading the team to generate revenue and achieve individual team and organizational quotas. Aligning to the sales strategy, the Sales Leader defines and implements plans for the assigned Accounts to achieve sales objectives.

You may be aligned to the following verticals and/or clouds:

• Financial Services
• Healthcare & Life Sciences
• Retail & Consumer Goods
• Comms, Media and Tech
• Public Sector
• Marketing Cloud
• Slack
• Mulesoft
• Tableau
• Marketing Cloud
• Specialization Cloud
  
  

Your Impact

The teams you lead here at Salesforce will directly impact the growth of our overall organization. You will be masterful in client engagement and impact how your customers do business in a constantly evolving environment. You will coach your team to develop in their careers, and inspire your team to do the best work of their life.

• Hire, Train, and Develop a team of Business Development Representatives
• Develop Reps into sales-ready candidates for future Account Executive positions
• Create Industry Specific Pipeline Programs to drive Pipeline and Revenue
• Motivate Individuals and Team to exceed objectives through coaching, regular broadcast of results, and creative incentives
• Regularly report on Team/Individual Results - Pipeline Generation, Quality of Pipeline, Revenue Forecasting
• Work closely with Marketing on defining Campaign follow-up and reporting
• Work closely with Executive Leadership Team and Sales Leaders to ensure Pipeline Quality/Quantity and proper follow-up
• Work closely with Operations to make recommendations on process improvements
• Identify and make recommendations for improvement in the areas of Process, Efficiency, Productivity
  
  

Your Qualifications

Depending on the segment, the years of experience and skills needed to be successful will vary from 3+ yrs of sales leadership experience developing a team of seven or more quota carrying sales people. In addition, a bachelor’s degree is strongly preferred.

• Strong background in leading Account Executives
• Shown ability to create hard-working teams and lead them to success
• Excellent presentation and executive engagement skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• A self-starter that can thrive in a fast paced environment
  
  

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For British Columbia-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is CAD 106,145 to CAD 206,350.