Key Responsibilities
- supportingand assisting the commercial sales teams in closing opportunities.
- Grow revenue by maximizing the potential of existing relationships while concurrently seeking to gain additional buyers and accounts. Identify long-term market needs and develop distinctive strategies to achieve a competitive advantage.
- Build good sales discipline – implementing strong sales rigor to deliver growth and accurate sales forecasting.
- Drive operational and sales cadence – understanding pipeline generation and activity/opportunity to drive growth.
- Increase the capability of NetApp to successfully sell in an evolving, multi-products and services environment, and in a highly competitive and demanding market.
- Work closely and effectively with NetApp's strategic partners and lead the relationships with the specific partner community to maximize revenue and customer satisfaction.
- Experience carrying significant revenue responsibility in a high value, high transactional velocity setting, while developing and executing sales strategies to profitably grow revenues and expand the account base in target markets.
- Disrupt the mindset of customers and sales teams by bringing innovative ideas that showcase case for change and NetApp’s unique value proposition.
- Influence and educate customers to align them on best practices. Identify ways to optimize each step in the customer lifecycle and drive engagement.
- Build trust-based relationships with Sales Leaders Product Engineering, Product Management, Centralized Commercial Office, Customer Success, Partner Management, and Marketing teams to ensure a collaborative approach to setting an innovative vision for NetApp’s GTM in the commercial business.
- Lead talent and development initiatives to support and align talent needs with future business objectives; assess the key talent strengths and gaps to ensure a long-term succession and internal talent pipeline.
Key Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in senior leadership roles preferred Directors or higher preferably in enterprise solution sales, SaaS, hybrid or Cloud
- Proven track record of overachievement of quota and KPI’s
- Demonstrated record of building and leading high performing and multifaceted teams
- Demonstrated ability to surpass goals, seizing opportunities to push the envelope and define new opportunities to serve customers through partners and achieve results
- Leadership capability that hires diverse talent, fosters career development with an attitude to win
- An aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
- A high degree of familiarity with the changing IT infrastructure including migrations to public cloud, private cloud and hybrid architecture is a plus
- Strong track record of leading sales efforts for market-leading companies in the broader enterprise technology space
- Demonstrated track record of success in developing and implementing a comprehensive scale commercial GTM strategy within a large SaaS company
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with clarity, simplicity, energy, and passion
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