Company: The Descartes Systems Group
Location: Waterloo, ON
Expected salary:
Job date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:55:48 GMT
Job description: Descartes Unites the People and Technology that Move the World
The need for efficient, secure, and agile supply chains and logistics operations has become ever more critical and complex. By combining innovative technology, powerful trade intelligence and the reach of our network, Descartes helps get goods, information, transportation assets, and people where they’re needed, when they’re needed.We’re one of the most broadly deployed logistics and supply chain technology companies in the world. More than 26,000 customers around the globe use our cloud-based solutions to transform the way they move inventory and information to enhance productivity, better serve customers, thrive competitively, keep pace with evolving regulations, and respond to rapidly changing market conditions. Descartes is publicly traded (Nasdaq:DSGX, TSX:DSG) with headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and offices and partners around the world. With record financial performance for more than 16 years, we lead the industry in innovation investment. Every day, logistics service providers, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and other logistics-intensive businesses of all sizes rely on our scale, stability, and comprehensive solution footprint to move what’s most important to them. Learn more atWe’re growing fast and invite you to join our amazing team.Position Overview:
Reporting directly to the Director of Sales, you will play a critical role in expanding our footprint within the Brokerage and Forwarding market. As an Account Executive, you will represent our solutions to Freight Forwarders and Customs Brokers, owning the entire sales cycle—from prospecting to closing—with the full support of a collaborative team that includes marketers, customer service specialists, and customer success professionals.We are looking for:
An experienced sales professional with a proven track record of success in selling enterprise SaaS solutions or logistics services. You are a highly energetic, skilled individual with a customer-centric and consultative approach to sales. Ideally, you bring domain expertise in international logistics, customs brokerage, or supply chain management. You have the gravitas to engage senior executives and operational leaders, identifying opportunities where Descartes’ solutions can drive operational efficiency and bottom-line results.You have the following attributes:
- A self-starter and team player with a history of overachieving pipeline generation and consistently exceeding quota targets.
- Highly energetic, confident, and driven to excel under pressure.
- A critical thinker with innate curiosity and the intellectual horsepower to grasp complex business challenges, ask insightful questions, and devise tailored solutions.
- A relationship builder with charisma and a personable nature that enables you to establish meaningful connections with senior executives and expand professional networks.
- A strategic thinker who balances attention to tactical details with an understanding of overarching business objectives, aligning your efforts to deliver impactful results.
- A collaborative mindset, bringing fresh ideas and fostering opportunities by leveraging internal and external resources.
What’s in it for you?
At Descartes, we value the contributions that each of our employees make towards achieving our corporate goals. We strive to ensure that each member of our team is given the tools and support they need to make valuable contributions. Descartes is committed to providing a stimulating and rewarding work environment, including competitive salaries and benefits.
As part of the Descartes team, you will have the opportunity to work with globally recognized market leaders who take pride in delivering quality services and market-leading innovations.You will bring:
- 3+ years in B2B sales, with strong understanding of SaaS and subscription business models.
- Track record of consistently meeting/exceeding sales quotas.
- You are a team player, able to work in a virtual team with colleagues and partners from diverse functions and backgrounds.
- Skilled at business planning and diligent at measuring and communicating progress towards the plan, identifying roadblocks, and coming up with appropriate solutions.
- Success adapting in fast-growing and changing environments.
- Domain knowledge and experience of International Logistics, Customs Brokerage, and supply chain management is a strong asset.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
Location and Compensation:
This remote opportunity is open to applicants authorized to work in the U.S., with a preference for those on the PST or MST Time Zone. The base salary ranges from $80,000 to $85,000 USD, plus uncapped sales commission. Your OTE (On Target Earning) could be $160,000-$170,000 USD“Compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills as well as the years of experience you have. Similar positions located in different geographic regions will not necessarily receive the same compensation. #LI-RemoteReady to make a difference in the logistics and supply chain industry? Apply today to join Descartes and take the next step in your career!Join Us
As we scale, we’re looking for new doers, collaborators and innovators to join Descartes in uniting the people and technology that move the world as the Global Leader in Logistics and Supply Chain Technology. We’re entrepreneurial, hardworking, geeky-in-a-good way problem solvers. Guided by our values, we nurture a TEAM focused culture that invests in people and creates opportunities for advancement across a broad spectrum of career paths. We prioritize work-life balance and foster an environment with the space to take ownership, to be heard, and to carve a path for your individual accomplishments to help drive our success.Descartes also has a deep sense of environmental responsibility. Learn more about how we helped our customers save over 552,000 metric tons of CO2 in 2020 by reducing fuel and paper consumption: . Join a team that’s committed to working with customers to conserve resources and enhance sustainability.At Descartes, everyone has a voice and the best idea wins, regardless of who makes it. We offer competitive compensation, great benefits, remote and flexible work hours, and the opportunity to join a company on an awesome mission with a great existing team and trajectory. If you feel you have 70% of the qualifications we are looking for, and Descartes sounds like the team and the mission you want to be part of, apply now. We can’t promise it will be a fit, but we do promise to consider your experience.Through COVID-19, we implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview and onboard candidates by video using Microsoft TEAMS. We record interviews and use them strictly for quality assurance, training and general record keeping purposes. Should you have any questions about this process, please connect with our hiring team in advance of scheduled interviews. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together.We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please review our , , . Descartes participates in the E-Verify program. Please click below to learn more about the E-Verify program. .
Descartes is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. Applicants in North America with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can email us at hrna@descartes.com. Provide your name and contact information along with the accommodation needed to assist you with the application process. Your request will be responded to as soon as possible. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
