Sales Leader

Our client is a leading national provider of innovative IT solutions and services to Global 2000 and mid-size companies. Partnered with the top-tier technology providers, our unique solution-based methodology, combined with our experience and expertise, has enabled thousands of industry-leading organizations to effectively address their business needs, optimize the returns on their IT investments, mitigate risk, and focus on growth and profitability.

 

Responsibilities

  • Maintain/exceed annual revenue and total contract value targets
  • Build trusted relationships with client leaders that have meaningful impact to their business
  • Develop and execute a Regional sales plan to penetrate existing and new markets
  • Create and present market and competitively differentiated solutions
  • Develop and present professional proposals and pricing to profitably win new logos and contracts
  • Manage the operational transition and monitor client service delivery
  • Provide feedback to management to improve the success of sales, solutions, pricing and go-to-market strategies
  • Work with and sell to C-level and senior level management
  • Develop trusted relationships, share insights that have meaningful impact to the customer’s business while positioning the company’s solutions to address business challenges.
  • Articulate and present the cost justification/risk mitigation related to the company’s solutions
  • Create differentiation, educate the customer on potential solutions and influence the decision making process.
  • Build excellent client relationships offering value-added, insightful and strategic input to their business strategies

Job Requirements:

  • 5-10 years of proven IT products and services selling experience, preferably , data center and end-user computing focus, technical solution architecture, managed services in the areas of network operations and security operations, cyber security services, “virtualization”, , , transition to the cloud and/or disruptive technology products/services
  • Experience serving as senior sales executive with demonstrated ability to integrate sales strategies with company-wide growth programs, new strategic initiatives and “out-of-the-box” thinking to achieve growth targets in excess of industry averages
  • Record of consistently outperforming program budget targets, sales quotas and margin targets after controllable expenses; achievement driven; highly competitive, team focused
  • Proven track record of contract signings, demonstrated ability to shape the deal from the onset
  • Background in consultative selling
  • Ability to understand enterprise-wide issues and to structure innovative, integrated solutions that provide complex decision support to global organizations
  • Demonstrated experience teaming with technologists in a sales environment
  • Experience in the financial engineering aspects of deal development and pricing models
  • Experience “hunting” and closing complex, multi-year IT managed services transactions
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Executive leadership
  • Demonstrated good judgment, strong initiative in problem solving
  • Experience working with and selling to large enterprises (F500)
  • Expertise in enterprise IT products or services
  • Strong interpersonal and influence skills to cultivate relationships, facilitate negotiations, and build partnerships with customers as well as key stakeholders
  • Ability to use own judgment and initiative in problem resolution
  • Outgoing and confident personality, exudes trust and leadership to customers and team alike, self- assured and creative

Locations: New York City, Chicago, Dallas, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Cincinnati

Compensation: Attractive base compensation and incentive plan

If you are interested or know someone who might be, please let us know! Thank you!

Larry Janis, Managing Partner, 516-767-3030, janis@issg.net 

Jeff Bruckner, Partner, (973) 761-5613, bruckner@issg.net