- Lead and drive Service Provider sales strategy to develop and close new business
- Architect a winning sales team through hiring and inspiring team members
- Plan and lead regularly scheduled forecast meetings
- Coach direct reports regarding key account strategies to drive closure
- Report on sales activity and forecast to Intermedia’s leadership team
- Align and leverage internal resources to build, develop, and close strategic account and wins, namely for both Channel and Direct sales groups
- Deliver inspiring sales training sessions to drive channel and direct sellers activity
- Lead and inspire the sales organization to achieve quarterly and annual revenue growth targets by establishing sales goals and monitoring their achievements
- Provide focused leadership to the sales team that will foster success based on a culture of customer success
- Evangelize and embed a sales pipeline management process by developing and maintaining executive and senior-level client relationships key accounts
- Maintain a personal presence and be visible with the sales team through customer engagements
- Directly participate in closing deals with target accounts and driving business initiatives for future success
- Work closely with Product Marketing and Product Management to provide prospect and customer feedback and market trend guidance.
- 10+ years of Channel and Direct Sales experience
- Mastery of channel management principals, demonstrate you have a strong brand in the channel
- Strong understanding of UCaaS and CCaaS vendors and their solution sets
- Have a strong grasp of solution and value-based selling, for both SMB and enterprise business applications space.
- Deep knowledge of Unified Communications & Contact Center in the Carrier/Service Provider space
- Experience in scaling hiring and overlay sales role
- Exhibiting executive presence both customers facing and internal stakeholders.
- Superior Verbal/written communication and listening skills are also a must, given the diverse role types this individual must engage with on a daily basis.
- Occasional trade show panelist and speaker duties
