Eaton's ES AMER NAS division is currently seeking a Sales Manager, Whitespace Strategic Accounts. This is a remote position that can be based anywhere within the continental United States.
What you'll do:
The Datacenter Whitespace Sales Manager will have responsibilities for driving growth and expanding engagement opportunities within our whitespace business development team. This role will work with our Distributed Infrastructure field sales and distribution sales team to develop, grow, and expand the Critical Power and Distributed Infrastructure product portfolio's footprint into the datacenter whitespace market. Managing a team of individuals responsible for the end-to-end sales quotation process of a technical power infrastructure portfolio offering to multi-tenant data center, hyperscale and strategic customers with a cumulative sales number of $100+ million.
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Job Responsibilities:
- Direct revenue responsibility for $100M+ in datacenter whitespace strategic account responsibility
- Develop and implement a rigorous sales operating cadence and playbook on all critical sales processes to monitor revenue targets and track key customer engagement performance metric for owned whitespace accounts.
- Lead global coordination with regional leaders for end-to-end support model for high profile customers including Amazon, Microsoft, Equinix, Digital Reality, Verizon, etc.
- Sponsor cross-functional workstream alignment (operations, order management, marketing, sales enablement, product management) to execute initiatives to improve existing sales processes and increase our global share of wallet for owned whitespace accounts.
- Lead / participate in monthly forecasting and pipeline management providing technical sales detail support and rollout schedule as appropriate.
- Stakeholder in continuous improvement of digital quotation and CRM toolsets to provide multi-channel quotation support for the Distributed Infrastructure and Data Center sales verticals.
- Identify new business opportunities within the datacenter whitespace and evaluate strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and joint ventures to drive growth in the space.
- Guide effective marketing content development connecting all of Eaton's business unit offerings within datacenter whitespace deployments (D-IT, CPS, GEIS, and ARS).
- Partner with the product management organization to capture voice of customer and whitespace product development progression to support developing high density/artificial intelligence market deployment requirements.
- Lead a team of Account Managers responsible
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in electrical sales, with experience managing strategic accounts
- Sponsorship is not available. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. on an ongoing basis without requiring sponsorship.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of 2 years' leadership or supervisory experience
- Knowledge of electrical products
- Ability and demonstrated experience to identify existing and future growth market opportunities and tailor strategic sales plan and resources to maximize Eaton's top-line and market share position
- Ability to establish rigor, consistency, and a business cadence that drives the team forward and achieves results.
- Capability to synthesize information and leverage data-driven arguments to make and guide informed decisions.
- Ability to work with all levels of the customer organizations to sell and support products as well as to understand the customer's current and future business needs
- Negotiation skills and expertise; ability to cope with high levels of ambiguity, and successfully resolve problems and manage conflict, navigating resistance and developing buy-in, both internally and externally.
Skills:
Position Criteria:
- Proven leadership skills, detail-oriented, high level of integrity, strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Able to work well with people across multiple functions, strong communication and presentation skills.
- Proven experience setting and executing a sales strategy in a high-growth environment and/or start-up environment.
- Attention to detail, thorough and accurate in accomplishing task
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to multitask and complete business deliverables within required timeline
- Ensure Process execution and documentation for responsible team's digital tool engagement (Salesforce, SAP, and CPQ)
The compensation range for this full-time position includes base pay and target sales performance incentive. This position has a target total compensation range of $148,500-$217,800.
Base salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on December 6, 2024
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