Hiring Sales Executive Rock Star
A Sales Executive manages existing relationships with clients, works to expand existing business, and identifies new opportunities with new contacts altogether. While the ability to build and manage relationships is crucial, the ability to open doors is paramount. Let us warn you now; this job is not for just anyone. In fact, if you are just looking for a job—or a paycheck to cash, or a checklist of tasks to tick off, or anything even close to just punching a time card—forget you ever saw this. Are you still here? Okay. So, if you are looking for a place where you can make a difference, heck, where you can be different, this might be for you. If you are looking for a place where innovation is not just encouraged, but expected, you’re getting warmer. If you are looking for a place where you can be integral to a building a team, a culture, a company, an industry…then let us introduce ourselves. We’re Verdeeco. That’s (ver • DEE• co). And we are doing some pretty exciting things. Actually, we’re pretty exciting ourselves. We are an Atlanta-based smart grid startup who just closed a Series-A round of funding the with ATA (Atlanta Technology Angels), Auburn Angel Network, and the Upper Carolina Angel Network, and who has been rated as one of the hottest startup companies to watch for 2011 by the Smart Grid News. We’re pretty excited about all that, but we’re more excited about what we’re doing. The smart grid is basically taking the “dumb” electric grid and adding communication, monitoring, analysis, and control to attempt to predict and intelligently respond to the behavior and actions of electric consumers. But these devices that go onto the grid produce data. BIG DATA. Big data that the current back end systems used in the industry are not equipped to handle. But there’s more. Once you have that data, the potential for analysis and application of the information to create predictive business intelligence is limitless. The industry recognizes the data problem, and see the need for advanced analytics, but hasn’t been able to produce a solution. That’s where we come in. We provide a cloud-based data storage and analytics platform with a SaaS application offering to the industry. In addition to the storage of petabytes of data, our solutions use a novel metrology to query, mine, and store results in cache for fast access. Not only are our data analytics solutions based on heuristics and predictive analytics algorithms, they also incorporate machine learning to further make our applications learn and better their predictions for the next time around. We are building this technology from the ground up and are looking for someone who has what it takes to make an impact in this environment. Job Description - Looking for Sales Evangelists Who Love “The Hunt” and loves to win leveraging personal relationships and the team. As the Senior Director of Sales at Verdeeco you will be covering accounts from across the United States, reporting directly to the Vice President of Sales and Business Development. You will have responsibility for delivering against a major part of the annual operating plan, and will be well-compensated for exceeding this commitment. Position Responsibilities: · Leverage client relationships to drive new business · Close profitable new business · Work collaboratively with Business Development personnel to drive new business · Develop competitive strategies and tactics to position Verdeeco offerings as industry leading solutions · Works closely with the VP of Sales to maintain high level of accuracy in sales forecast and timely updates to CRM · Produce monthly and quarterly forecasts · Develop tactics to achieve goals defined by VP of Sales · Prepare responses to customer Request for Proposal and Request for Information · Coordinates sales activities with channel partners for targeted accounts · Effectively communicates feedback on solutions from client to development team · Travels (up to 75% of the time) to meet company goals and objectives for Sales · Represents Verdeeco at industry events in a speaking or thought leadership role. Position Requirements · BS in business management, engineering or related degree · Proven track record in enterprise level solution sales · Sales experience in NA Electric Distribution · Consistent record of quota achievement · 5+ years knowledge of and experience in utilities · Excellent negotiation and communication skills (both oral and written) · Flexibility in changing priorities · Strong work ethic
