Schneider Electric (SE) is accelerating the growth of its award winning Data Centre Infrastructure Mgt. (DCIM) software (SW) suite and has an opportunity for a Software Sales & Business Development person to join the Secure Power Canada team.
Our SW suite revolutionizes the way IT and data center professionals monitor and manage their critical IT infrastructure whether it be on-premise, in the cloud, or at the edge.
Our vendor-neutral architecture delivers a new standard for proactive insights on critical assets that impact the health and availability of an IT environment with the ability to deliver actionable, real-time recommendations to optimize infrastructure performance and mitigate risk.
This person will be the subject matter expert for all commercial activity related to our SW offers.
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This is a hybrid Sales role that will be responsible for both Business Development (ie. new funnel creation) & Sales of the SW opportunities within the Territory of Responsibility.
What will you do?
- Target Attainment for Territory of Responsibility
- Understand & own the renewal strategy (existing SW clients)
- Promoting & upselling opportunities to the other existing client base (ie. HW, Services & other SE clients)
- Work with all Routes to Market, (ie. SE Sales, Service, Channels, Elite Partners, etc) to generate & close business
- Cold call, (as required), into a provided listing of existing clients to develop & progress funnel
- Interact with Product team (LOB) in an effort to drive roadmap requirements
- Understand and document landscape to help differentiate Schneider's offering from the competition
- Build awareness of Schneider's capabilities to both new & existing clients
- Solve customer problems and participate in key negotiations in support of progressing & closing SW opportuniites
- Assist with planning of Sales Strategy within the territory
- Drive cross Business Unit Sales
Territory of Responsibility: Canada, (composed of West, Central, East Regions, C&SP Segment, Channel Partners, including a set of pre-defined large value-added resellers (VARS) (referred to as DMRs)
Who will you report to?
- Director, BD & Strategy, (SP Canada) along with a dotted line to US SW Sales Director
What qualifications will make you successful for this role?
We know skills and competencies show up in many ways and can be based on your life experience. If you do not necessarily meet all the requirements that are listed, we still encourage you to apply for the position.
- Bachelor's degree (with minor in business is an asset)
- 3+ years of experience in creating funnel and selling SW solutions
- Comfortable selling both perpetual licensing & SaaS SW solutions
- Self-Starter & someone that is motivated to achieve & exceed Targets
- Previous experience selling to End Users, Verticals large VARs & Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
- Understanding of the TCO/ROI model & how to help clients with their budgeting requirements
- Knowledge of IT and/or infrastructure monitoring software
- Comfortable taking a proactive approach to engaging clients even when SE does not have an existing client relationship
- Strong business acumen and presentation skills
- Able to travel 25% to 40% of time (mainly within Territory & rest of Canada & USA as required)
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