Vice President of Sales - Central

About the role

Zycus is hiring a Vice President of Sales - Central to lead and scale enterprise revenue across the Central United States. This role owns regional strategy, execution, and results, managing a high-performing team of Senior Enterprise Account Executives selling into large, complex enterprise accounts. This is a front-line, player-coach role, not a VP-of-managers role. Success here is personally running deal reviews, coaching Sr AEs one-on-one, and being the executive-alignment partner on the big deals.

Key Responsibilities

• Regional Revenue Leadership
  • Own and deliver US Central regional revenue targets
  • Define, execute, and continuously refine the regional sales strategy
  • Drive predictable pipeline generation and forecast accuracy
• Team Leadership & Development
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of Senior Enterprise Account Executives
  • Drive performance through deal coaching, pipeline inspection, and accountability
  • Support hiring, onboarding, and ramp of senior enterprise sellers
• Executive & Deal Leadership
  • Personally engage in strategic, high-value opportunities
  • Coach reps through complex negotiations and executive-level conversations
  • Build trusted relationships with CIOs, CPOs, CFOs, and CEOs
• Cross-Functional Alignment
  • Partner closely with Pre-Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Product
  • Provide market insight and customer feedback to influence GTM and product priorities

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise B2B SaaS or software sales experience
• 5+ years leading enterprise sales teams
• Proven success selling into Fortune 1000 and large enterprise accounts
• Experience owning regional quotas
• Strong understanding of the US Central enterprise landscape
• Player-coach mindset with strong deal engagement
• Executive presence with exceptional negotiation skills
• Disciplined approach to forecasting, pipeline management, and CRM
• Ability to attract, coach, and retain senior enterprise sales talent

Why Join Zycus?

• At Zycus, you won't just sell software — you'll help reshape how the world's largest companies run procurement.
• Work with a proven leader. Recognized by Gartner and Forrester as a Leader in Source-to-Pay, including the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ — two decades of trust behind every pitch you make.
• Sell the future, not the past. We're the pioneer of Agentic AI in procurement. Our Merlin Agentic AI Platform gives you a genuinely differentiated story that opens doors and shortens cycles.
• Big logos, big deals. Engage Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 enterprises — Delta, Heineken, and more — and close deals with measurable, reference-able impact.
• Be rewarded for winning. Competitive base, uncapped upside, and performance incentives — because top closers deserve top rewards.
• Great reps want great products, big logos, and real upside. That's Zycus. Come do the best sales work of your career.