Company: Direct IT Recruiting

Location: Toronto, ON

Expected salary: $175000 per year

Job date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:25:35 GMT

Job description: OverviewLocation: Toronto, OntarioSalary: $175K + Commission (no cap)
Reports to: EVP
No direct reports, this is an individual contributor role, hunter sales
Interview process: 3 interviews
Travel: As required within CanadaDescription:The IT Sales Director is a key sales role within the Technology sales team, responsible for executing sales and business development strategies for the target markets. The candidate will target sales of the company’s product portfolio of Data solutions, Product Engineering, Cloud transformation, including professional services for the target organization/market. The position’s primary responsibility is to achieve new sales results for the company’s products and services.The IT Sales Director is responsible for researching and pursuing new business leads for the growth of the business. The role involves active coordination across teams and demands exceptional inter-personal skills. The executive is expected to work on new business proposals and presentations which are a persuasive representation of an organization’s COI/services.Responsibilities:

• Responsible for adding new ISVs and NEPs through consultative selling and adoption of our Digital Solutions & Services. This new hire will focus on bolstering new client acquisition capabilities in the Technology vertical.
• You will be directly interacting with senior client executives to understand their strategic business goals, and business/technology/operations priorities and help them design solutions, and services to meet these goals by leveraging the company’s capabilities & competency areas.
• Develop, own & manage account plans, and sales strategies, respond to and deliver on client requests; respond to RFI’s/RFP, technology & service needs. Proactively identify opportunities, and make solution proposals, and presentations to clients in line with account & client strategy.
• Own the entire account operations process – budgeting, forecasting, MSA/contracts/SOW, invoices
• Oversee the delivery of the company’s commitments to clients by working closely with various service delivery teams, practices, architecture, engineering, UX, and information security.
• As Sales lead your role will be to pursue GTM strategy for Named Accounts from pursuit to closure
• Leading sales and market development efforts including segmentation, demand generation, and sales progression
• Developing, and leading marketing campaigns designed to generate leads and new qualified opportunities within customer segments/micro verticals and named account list
• Pipeline management – maintaining the accuracy of the sales management system to document the status of campaigns, leads, and opportunities
• Mapping client/prospect business, technology, and operations need to the company’s capability areas. Shaping digital solutions and services that address specific problems, challenges & pain areas
• Engaging with internal teams in constructing the solution scope, presenting those solution proposals to the client/prospect and consulting with the client/prospect in explaining benefits, and execution methodologies associated with the solution scope
• The role also requires being a strategic advisor, providing management consulting, and becoming a coach/guide to stakeholders in the process.
• You will need to be a Thought Leader in the HiTech space with a good understanding of macro & micro-trends, the impact of various technologies and key drivers of Digital Transformation.
• Strategic alliances & partnerships. This role may require teaming up with strategic partners or alliances for purposes of a sale to provide advisory/consulting/solution design and execution – e.g., partnership with a mobile device manufacturer, MEC/cloud provider, or SaaS-based Platform provider etc.
• You will need to contribute to Digital marketing to develop mindshare for Digital Transformation solutions offerings/assets through Webinars, Campaigns, Seminar presentations, road shows etc.
• You will be required to continuously lead and manage C-Suite relationships, the steering committees for engagements, and grow & nurture the relationships opened through the new client acquisition process.

Qualifications:

• Requires solid understanding of HiTech Domain -including a high degree of domain-led consultative selling
• Requires significant interaction with business, technical, and operations stakeholders. Communication will be key.
• Requires good understanding and prior experience in selling to NEP, ISV/OEM, and Consumer Electronic accounts including R&D, product management and vendor management
• Requires solid understanding of digital solutions areas and use-case based consulting/selling in select domains
• Requires good understanding of Digital Transformation, relevant technologies, industry leaders in Sales & Services (e.g. CRM), Digital Experience Platforms, Cloud, Infrastructure Services, API Management, DevOps, Data/Analytics, Omni Channel Solutions, RPA/Automation, Customer Experience, UX, Managed Services, Application Services

• 10+ years of experience in managing multiple customer engagements
• Exposed to / involved in “new age” service providers
• Has a solid sales and business development experience of similar size and scope
• Knowledge of industry-specific go-to-market solutions is a plus
• Track record of interacting and building relationships with CxO-level client contacts
• Experience managing large multi-location consulting engagement teams desirable
• Hands-on experience with proposal creation and leading proposal presentations
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills

Tagged as: Data Anlytics, Digital Transformation, Omni Channel, SaaS, Sales Director, technology, UX

The IT Sales Director role in Toronto, Ontario offers a salary of $175K + Commission with no cap. This individual contributor role involves sales and business development strategies for IT solutions. Responsibilities include new client acquisition, account management, sales strategy development, and market development. Qualifications include a solid understanding of the HiTech domain, experience in consultative selling, and knowledge of digital solutions areas. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of sales and business development experience, strong leadership and communication skills, and experience working with CxO-level client contacts.