Sales Director

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary point of contact for all client requests, technical matters, and new business inquiries in a pre-defined set of accounts.
• Develop overall knowledge of assigned accounts including products sold, asset classes traded, clients, and business issues; proactively and regularly communicate account status to senior management.
• Leverage and keep tools and repositories up to date to aid in account planning, opportunity development, and forecasting (e.g. SalesForce.com, Confluence).
• Build proposals, price, and deliver a curated value proposition to clients/prospects.
• Interact with various stakeholders on the client side at all levels from junior resources up to C-level; identify decision makers; build and maintain client relationships.
• Run executive briefings to CxO level to provide updates and roadmaps on technology.
• Drive activities of regional sales managers in a manner that creates brand awareness and creates strong lines of communication from the field to senior management.
• Align business requirements to solutions to help customers define technology strategies. Develop messaging for new solutions and technologies to educate customers and prospects on how it resolves their business challenges.
• Collect data on and analyze sales-related information and statistics in order to accurately and effectively plan interactions and to develop action plans for regional sales managers.
• Win business with the overall goal of maintaining and growing monthly recurring revenue in your account base relative to established sales targets.
• Work with sales management, legal and logistics to negotiate commercial terms in Master Services Agreements and Service Orders.
• Partner with sales engineering to define mid- and low-level technical requirements for the proposed solution.
• Develop and nurture strong customer contacts and positive, proactive relationships with prospects ensuring open streams of communication.

Requirements

• Proven track record selling to Financial Markets is a must.
• Demonstrated experience selling Financial Services solutions including Market Data, Connectivity, high-end software and/or hardware solutions into Trading firms (across asset class).
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite and strong PowerPoint and Excel skills critical.
• Superb communication skills and ability to interact with all levels or organizations.
• Track record of exceeding quotas year after year.
• Exceptional skills in sales presentations and experience in using salesforce.com.
• Consistent performer who overachieves sales revenue targets and goals, with strong business acumen and exceptional organization skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Exceptionally customer focused.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and interact with all levels of management.
• Self-starter, team player, energetic, enthusiastic and organized.
• Emphasizes on attention to detail & comfortable acting as a de facto project coordinator who will advocate for both the company and client.
• Driven and proactive, comfortable escalating issues in context of possible solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) would be an advantage.