Sales Director

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  • Job type

    Permanent
  • Location

    Saudi Arabia
  • Specialism

    Sales
  • Industry

    Technology & Internet Services
  • Pay

    SAR

Sales Director - KSA

The Sales Director is responsible for cultivating leads and generating opportunity pipelines by creating high-quality sales proposals and closing orders. As the sales lead for the Middle East region, this role will partner with product experts to schedule and conduct needs analysis and follow the clients' Value Based Selling model. This senior-level role will be familiar with the full and varied product range and will build an excellent understanding of the Middle East’s public transport market, developing strong professional client relationships at a senior level and throughout the target organisations.

Key Duties and Responsibilities
Reporting to the Managing Director in the Middle East and working collaboratively as part of a cross-functional team, they undertake the following high-level responsibilities in a professional manner:
  • Pursue and close new business, building trust, loyalty and solid long-term relationships with key decision-makers.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with new and existing accounts to find, build, manage and close sales opportunities on a consistent basis.
  • Work with sales and marketing colleagues, and independently to proactively hunt for new opportunities.
  • Prepare tender responses, including win and pricing strategies.
  • Develop and maintain Account Plans to drive customer engagement planning aligned with the sales and product strategy of the account base.
  • Manage the complex sales cycles of technical selling.
  • Manage accounts, opportunities, activities, tasks, contacts, leads, etc. in the corporate CRM.
  • Strategise on strategic accounts and major opportunities with the Director of Sales and Business Development
  • Build Contract Forecasting Plans to drive the closure of deals when forecasted.
  • Develop a deep understanding of the opportunities that will be coming to market.
  • Present the company's business and products to clients and prospective clients across the web, in the press and at industry conferences and trade shows.
  • Lead and coordinate customer presentations, including product demonstrations where appropriate.
  • Attending conferences with the end goal of meeting leads, MQL and SQL targets.
  • Establish relationships with potential business partners in the region.
  • Undertake any other reasonable tasks consistent with the training and skill levels required for this position as requested.

Education and Experience
  • Accomplished as a seasoned sales professional with 5 years + of experience in technology sales in a B2B environment.
  • Proven ability to deliver or exceed quarterly and annual sales targets.
  • Demonstrated understanding of how to conduct business in the Middle East region, with a preference towards the Saudi Arabia market.
  • A proven track record of building strong relationships and the ability to use interpretative skills to understand and relate to industry/client requirements are essential.
  • Demonstrated pre-existing relationships in the market with contacts that can open doors to current government-run transport organisations.

Personal Attributes
  • Highly skilled at influencing, teaching, and motivating others towards accomplishing a common goal.
  • Expertise in applying adopted sales stage methodologies to ensure maximum revenue is generated from every opportunity created and be willing and able to share this knowledge with others.
  • A passionate ‘can-do’ mindset focused on understanding and addressing customer needs.
  • Skilled at logically communicating technical information and ideas to all stakeholders, so others will understand.
  • Skilled at successfully working and promoting a client's environment and requirements internally within inter-functional groups.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and well-developed interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Skilled at working effectively both independently and in a team environment with a co-operative approach to “go the extra mile” to achieve results.
  • Positive attitude, self-motivated, organised, and innovative
  • A mature and professional approach to work with an ability to instil a high level of confidence in others.
  • Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills within a multi-faceted environment
  • Highly competent at working with Marketing to build pipelines and enhance the sales funnel.
  • Strong customer and partner support as you would expect to receive in return.

Travel
  • The position will require extensive travel within the region.
  • Overseas travel may be required from time-to-time.
  • All air travel is economy class.


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