Chief Sales Officer
Supplier.io · United States · 3 mo ago
RemoteRemoteBusiness Development$100k/yrFull-time
The Opportunity
Roles and Responsibilities
Commercial Strategy and Revenue Leadership
- Own and deliver the annual revenue plan across Supplier.io’s full product portfolio.
- Define and execute an integrated go-to-market strategy that addresses both new logo acquisition and growth within the existing customer base.
- Develop and maintain a clear ideal customer profile and pricing framework aligned to Supplier.io’s target segments and growth objectives.
- Partner closely with the CEO, CFO, and Board to set revenue targets, report on forecast accuracy, and communicate pipeline health with rigor and transparency.
- Ensure the commercial motion across both product lines is coherent, differentiated, and built on a foundation of value-based selling and not feature-led transactional sales.
- Protect and grow revenue from Supplier.io's established supplier diversity and intelligence platform.
- Develop and execute a retention and expansion strategy for existing customers, working in close coordination with Customer Success to drive renewals, upsells, and multi-product adoption.
- Identify and close net-new logos within the core supplier diversity and intelligence space, maintaining strong pipeline coverage and a disciplined sales process.
- Ensure sellers across the team are fluent in communicating the differentiated value of Supplier.io's diversity certifications, ESG attributes, risk and compliance data, and enriched firmographic intelligence.
- Stay close to the regulatory, policy, and market dynamics shaping supplier diversity requirements across industries and translate those into relevant commercial messaging and opportunity identification.
- Build and own the commercial motion for Atlas from the ground up, including sales playbook, messaging framework, pricing structure, and deal architecture for $100K–$1M+ ACV engagements.
- Close the first set of strategic Atlas enterprise logos personally, demonstrating and documenting a repeatable path to market that the broader team can inherit and scale.
- Lead complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles engaging CIOs, CPOs, Chief Data Officers, and digital transformation leaders across procurement, IT, finance and AP, and supply chain.
- Drive net-new pipeline within a target ICP of organizations in the $1B+ revenue range, where vendor master data quality is a mission-critical operational and strategic concern.
- Leverage Supplier.io's existing Fortune 100 relationships as warm introductions and reference accounts for Atlas while building an independent pipeline capable of sustaining long-term growth.
- Lead, coach, and develop the full Supplier.io sales organization, setting a clear performance culture defined by accountability, intellectual curiosity, and customer obsession.
- Recruit and retain top sales talent, building the team deliberately and with a long-term view as revenue scales across both product lines.
- Establish consistent processes, tools, and disciplines across the sales organization, including pipeline management, forecasting, and deal review cadences.
- Partner with Customer Success to ensure seamless handoffs, cross-sell alignment, and a unified post-sale experience for customers.
- Partner with Product to ensure that buyer feedback and market signals are systematically incorporated into the product roadmap for both Atlas and the core platform.
- Partner with Marketing to shape demand generation, account-based marketing strategy, and content development across the full portfolio.
- Represent Supplier.io at key industry events, conferences, and executive forums in the supplier diversity, data intelligence, MDM, and procurement technology space.
- Build and maintain executive relationships with key customers, prospects, and strategic partners that advance Supplier.io's market position and commercial pipeline.
- Serve as a credible, visible voice for Supplier.io's value proposition with senior buyer audiences, including C-suite stakeholders in procurement, finance, IT, and supply chain.
- 12+ years of quota-carrying enterprise SaaS sales experience, with at least 5-7 years in senior sales leadership roles carrying full P&L or revenue responsibility.
- Demonstrated success leading and growing sales teams in the $20M–$200M ARR range.
- Proven track record closing and overseeing $150K–$1M+ ACV deals with multi-stakeholder enterprise buying committees (CIO, CPO, CDO, CoE) across 6–12 month sales cycles.
- Experience building a repeatable sales motion from the ground up at a high-growth company.
- Strong command of value-based, consultative selling (i.e., you sell business outcomes and data trust, not features and workflow automation).
- Experience managing both a growth-stage product and a mature product line simultaneously, with the strategic clarity to allocate resources and attention effectively across both.
- Track record of protecting and growing an established enterprise customer base while simultaneously driving aggressive net-new logo acquisition.
- Deep familiarity with enterprise procurement, finance, IT, and supply chain buyer dynamics, and the ability to build champions and navigate complex organizations.
- High tolerance for ambiguity and a genuine bias toward action.
- Background selling data-intensive enterprise solutions, including MDM, entity resolution, data quality, data governance, data enrichment, supplier or vendor data platforms, or adjacent categories.
- Familiarity with how enterprise organizations think about supplier diversity, ESG reporting, and procurement compliance, and the regulatory and stakeholder pressures that drive investment in these areas.
- Experience selling into enterprise buyers in Financial Services, Manufacturing, CPG, Healthcare, or Life Sciences, where data accuracy and vendor master quality are mission-critical.
- Experience selling solutions that directly address ERP modernization, source-to-pay deployments, or AI-driven procurement initiatives where data quality is the foundational blocker.
- Network and credibility within the procurement technology, supplier diversity, or enterprise data management ecosystem.