SVP Sales Germany

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The SVP Sales will lead the respective business verticals for Germany, reporting directly to the Country Manager.

This leader will create an organization recognized for high-growth, long-term sustainable success and its commitment to Salesforce values: Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, Equality and Sustainability

Key outcomes for the new leader

• Maintain and improve the year-on-year growth % across the country and verticals
• Position Salesforce as the #1 platform for customers to achieve customer success, fostering the adoption of Salesforce
• Align and coordinate product, customer success, and services teams to deliver incredible success for our customers
• Build a sales organization recognized for its ability to attract and retain the most talented individuals in our industry
• Drive long-term employee success with a focus on coaching, development, and building high-performance teams
• Use and scale best practices from across the regional organizations

Core Responsibilities

Position the business to grow successfully beyond its current targets, increasing the revenue of the business significantly year on year. Operating in a high-growth environment, this will likely be achieved by:

• Analyzing and understanding the total addressable market (TAM) for the verticals
• Defining a clear and compelling growth strategy and revenue plan
• Translating business objectives into specific goals for the given area
• Driving a culture of strong execution and operational excellence
• Growing the business across new enterprise accounts, expanding existing ones and ensuring high retention rates on existing accounts
• Managing the Sales teams to help drive and close strategic/complex deals in the respective industry verticals
• Prioritizing and helping direct reports to prioritize effectively
• Providing strategic direction and focus to the Sales team
• Identifying new business opportunities in industry verticals and driving expansion into them
• Identifying and managing new business channels, partnerships and routes to market
• Utilizing internal and external C-level resources to build a compelling, consistent vision for our customers
• Engaging functionally across the German business (Account Management Marketing, Solution Engineering, Customer Success, Sales Strategy, Finance, Employee Success, Recruiting) to fully utilize resources for the verticals
• Continue growing and managing a team of high performers, developing the next generation of talent at Salesforce, and building a balanced team

The candidate

A world-class sales leader with a proven track record in building, inspiring and motivating a complex, matrixed Sales organization recognized for its culture, as well as its results.

Strong analytical with a proven ability to break down the complex examples of inspiring new and existing customers to commit to a journey of transformation, utilizing technology as a platform.

Many years' experience in managing on a day-to-day basis a sales business with a strong cadence of deal closure on a monthly and quarterly basis; track record of consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals

Many years of strategic sales experience and revenue achievement selling multiple enterprise S/W offerings, while building satisfied, loyal and reference-able customers

Ability to genuinely sell to C-suite and possessing high-level executive presence

Consultative sales skills and ability to construct and articulate strong business case and ROI, strategic account planning and execution skills

Excellent operational/analytical skills - reporting, forecasting, and data analysis skills; operations management experience

C-level engagement and negotiation, account strategy, domain expertise, executive selling, large deal management and team leadership

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Posting Statement

At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at www.equality.com and explore our company benefits at www.salesforcebenefits.com.

Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.

Salesforce welcomes all.