Sales Director - Industry

Role Purpose

To drive expansion in the US and Americas markets, Janes is seeking a high-caliber, driven professional comfortable with selling subscription-based products, enterprise-wide solutions, data content and services to commercial industry markets. Current customers include some of the top companies across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufactures and system integrators, and customers across other sectors that require information to manage and guide their go-to-market efforts and risk profiles.

This is a quota-based role and has account management responsibility while also collaborating and working with other sales directors and partner managers currently working with these strategic customers. This individual contributor role will allow the successful candidate to implement a clear go-to-market strategy, delivering huge value to our customers, and be part of the company’s strategic initiative related to driving growth in our US and Americas business.

How You Will Contribute at Janes

• Identify and engage with key decision makers across the customer base developing strong relationships and leads for the business growth.
• Own existing assigned business in territory, ensuring new business, renewals and targeted uplift for year-over-year growth.
• Develop strategy for new business pursuits and shaping future opportunity.
• Build strong customer relationships which deliver year-on-year value for the business.
• Build strong internal relationships to ensure customers receive maximum value from Janes.
• Couple your knowledge of Janes products and propositions along with your strong understanding of the needs of the A&D industry—their goals and challenges, to continuously position Janes at the forefront of customer decision-making processes.
• Collaborate with the wider Sales team to relentlessly focus on strong lead generation, building value for the business.
• Build a sales pipeline through disciplined sales and business development activity with a focus on revenue recognition to ensure both near (12-18 month) and long term (2+ year) growth within the Industry market segment.
• Continuously manage and focus on accurate forecasting, pipeline and closure of opportunities.

Requirements

• A proven track record of enterprise-wide selling in software solutions, technology data and/or services within the above identified customer segments.
• Previous experience and record of success growing a portfolio in sales as an individual contributor and quota owner.
• Demonstrable experience in interacting with mid to senior executives across the A&D industry.
• Previous experience of building relationships across A&D industry customers.
• Understanding their mission needs and how to connect the value of Janes offerings to their goals.
• Previous experience of interacting with Industry partners in the defense community and understanding their business needs and pipeline/portfolios.
• Ability to work with a global team across business functions, including marketing, legal, customer success, and product teams.
• Demonstrable experience of leveraging product, service and operational capabilities and insights for competitive advantage.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with MS applications required (Excel, Word and PowerPoint).

Preferred Experience

• At least 5 years of sales experience selling to or strategic planning experience in the aerospace and defense markets.
• Experience in using Salesforce to qualify leads, document opportunity progress to closure, and produce forecasts and progress reports.
• Experience working with and/or selling open-source data or complex software.
• Experience with DIB or A&D strategic planning, evaluating defense markets, and/or supporting foreign military sales.

Benefits

• 20 days vacation
• 9 days flexible time off
• 12 paid holidays
• Health insurance (medical, dental and vision)
• 401k retirement plan with company match and immediate vesting
• Hybrid work schedule/flexibility
• Company paid life and disability insurance
• Healthy Half
• Weekly fresh fruit delivery
• Learning & Development opportunities (LinkedIn Learning, Mentoring)

Schedule

Hybrid work schedule/flexibility

Pay

Salary Range: Base salary range: $140,000 – $160,000 per year