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Location: Post Date: 01/23/2018
Job Title: Area Vice President, Enterprise Sales - Quip
Location: California
Role Description: Quip is Salesforce's collaboration and content platform for the "new worker"and is quickly emerging as the application to drive increased employee, team productivity and helping to dispense with long emails chains and endless meetings. As a newly acquired company by Salesforce, Quip enjoys being a part of a well respected, innovative thought leader while remaining a nimble, fast growing and emerging Team. In partnership, Quip stands poised to become the new way to "get work done better and faster.
Job Profile: - The AVP Enterprise Sales for Quip will be responsible for setting and executing Salesforce's enterprise sales strategy for Strategic, Key, Select, Financial Services, Canada and Retail Consumer Product Goods. This executive will assume leadership of a growing sales organization of 7+, including first line managers, to help drive complex enterprise deal transactions.
- Set and execute an aggressive customer acquisition strategy to generate 30%+ annual growth in revenue and bookings for the segment
- Maintain key customer relationships, develop and implement strategies for expanding the Quip's customer base
- Provide detailed and accurate sales forecasting
- Manage overall sales process, set appropriate metrics for sales funnel management
- Keen focus and drive demand creation and a specific point of view across segments regarding the value of collaboration
- Plan and manage at both the strategic and operational levels
- Ability to work in conjunction and partnership with "Core" Sales Management , Account Executive Teams and other eco-system partner.
Required Skills/Experience:
- 2nd or 3rd line leadership experience leading teams in enterprise strategic sales in the Enterprise Business of the US and Canada
- Strong track record of recruiting, developing and retaining a high performing enterprise sales organization
- Consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals
- 15+ years in software and/or applications sales (ideally in a CRM, ERP and/or B2B SW company), selling primarily to the Senior and CxO level
- Proven track record of building satisfied, loyal and reference able customers
- C--suite level resources, aligned with Salesforce/Quip executives, AEs, and internal leadership teams to present a single front internally and help represent a single vision for our customers
- Proven success working within a highly matrixed organization and establishing strong relationships across all functions
- Strong operational and analytical abilities
- Strategic enterprise sales experience and revenue achievement selling multiple enterprise software offerings
- Experience selling cloud based enterprise applications is strongly preferred
- Bachelor degree preferred
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