Sales Manager_Chennai

Roles and Responsibilities

• Effectively manage prospects, accounts and opportunities using Salesforce.com and LinkedIn
• Build pipeline and understand totality of sales process and sales velocity in order to hit sales goals
• Proven track record of at least 3 years of Consultative selling & New revenue
• Be responsible for understanding the business needs and in doing so build a strategic plan
• Build pipeline and understand totality of sales process and sales velocity in order to hit sales goals
• Collaborate closely with internal teams across the business but particularly within the sales leadership team, Pre-Sales/Solutions Consulting, Professional Services, legal and partnership to identify key trends and opportunities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to prospects and clients, demonstrating ability to build long term sustainable clients.
• Ability to generate new relationships with decision makers in organizations.
• Identifying and developing new business through networking and courtesy and follow-up calls.
• Ability to build a pipeline and execute on each phase of the sales process.
• Manage a team of 5-8 executives and work along with them to achieve the team targets

Required Candidate profile

• Candidate should have min 7-10 years of experience in Software Solution or Product Sales
• Should be working in the role of a Sales Manager since last 3 years with a mid-sized organization (Employee strength > 1000 and < 10000 employees)
• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university
• Proven track record in Strategic Account Management, Sales consulting background
• Ability to communicate effectively at an Executive level and build relationships throughout an organization
• Proven history of success maintaining and exceeding sales targets
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects
• Should work in US timings / India night shift
• Proficient with MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to meet deadlines