Senior Enterprise Sales Director
SUB-DEPARTMENT
Intl Outside Sales – Ent Core
JOB TYPE
Full Time
LOCATION
Paris
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Seismic, a rapidly growing Forbes Cloud 100 company, is the global leader in enablement, helping make sales teams better by becoming more productive and engaging with buyers in a compelling way. Seismic’s platform provides continuous guidance to improve behavior, content, and skills to win more deals and deliver better experiences. Nearly 2,000 organizations including IBM and American Express have made Seismic their enablement platform of choice. Seismic integrates with business-critical platforms including Microsoft, Salesforce, Google and Adobe. Seismic is headquartered in San Diego, with offices across North America, Europe, Australia and China.
Seismic is committed to building an inclusive workplace that ignites growth for our employees and creates a culture of belonging that allows all employees to be seen and valued for who they are. Learn more about DEI at Seismic here.
Senior Enterprise Sales Director
Our sales and marketing teams help companies understand how Seismic can power collaboration internally through the use of content. We’re thoughtful and committed to telling the Seismic story, with the goal to ultimately help brands focus on enabling their go to market teams. In your role, you’ll be influential in spreading the word about our cutting edge technology and expanding our footprint.
Seismic’s sales reps are passionate about our product and take a consultative approach to selling our solution across several verticals, including Financial Services, Manufacturing, High Tech, and more. If you are ready to spread awareness of our world class sales enablement tool, apply today to learn more about Seismic.
Who You Are:
- An experienced Enterprise sales rep possessing strong Saas solution sales experience, 5 years in the high tech and/or software space, with a history of driving, managing and repeatedly closing enterprise deals.
- A driven, energetic, resilient individual with proven ability to hit or exceed sales quota.
- An articulate individual who is able to convey our value proposition to C-Level, Sales and Marketing executives.
- Someone who has proven consultative sales solution skills in a SaaS/Cloud environment.
- Someone who loves being on the road. Will be responsible for large geography. Would consist of working with sales employees, attending business meetings, industry meetings or working with key customers.
- Someone who believes that growth and winning mindsets are the starting point for reaching and exceeding a sales target. You demonstrate it in your daily attitude when you are working on your own, with colleagues or partners.
- Someone who possesses a Bachelor’s Degree.
- Someone fluent in English and comfortable working in a matrix organization
- Spanish is a plus
What you will be doing:
- Selling Seismic Software, #1 Sales Enablement Solution to various enterprise accounts within a large territory
- Manage complex sales cycles starting with discovery, building and managing relationships, to the close of business.
- Acquire new business by building a network of customers and industry contacts to facilitate sales development and successes.
- Partner closely with the Sales Engineering team to customize product demonstrations and architect solution packages based on client requirements
- Partner closely with the Customer Success team to support value realization and grow existing customer accounts by building long-term strategic relationships
- Prepare proposals that outline consultative solutions to meet client needs
- Think out of the box to maximize the business opportunities within your given territory.
- Mobilize internal stakeholders and leverage their experience and expertise to maximize deals size and accelerate sales cycles.
- Weekly report accurately your sales activities and provide predictable forecasts
What you bring to the team:
- 5+ years of Saas solution sales experience with a history of driving, managing and closing enterprise deals
- Experience selling software (cloud/SaaS) to large, strategic Enterprise accounts in the South EMEA region.
- Proven ability to proactively develop and strengthen your pipeline with the obsession to hit,or exceed sales quota.
- Ability to articulate value proposition to C-Level, Sales and Marketing executives
- Proven consultative sales solution skills in a SaaS/Cloud environment
- Travel required, which consists of working with sales employees, attending business meetings, industry meetings or working with key customers.
- Bachelor’s degree
What we have for you:
- Take time to rest and recharge w/ Paid time off, paid bank holidays, end of year company shutdown
- Fertility and family planning benefits with financial assistance for adoption and surrogacy
- Group healthcare and risk benefits
- Equity program and performance-based bonuses
- Mental health support with 12 free counseling sessions for you and your family members
- Paid parental leave
- Metro Reimbursement
- Annual professional development reimbursement
- Bring Your Own Device technology stipend
- Seismic Cares Program with charitable donation matching
- Communities of Belonging (employee resource/affinity groups)
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the application or recruiting process, please contact us at [email protected].
Headquartered in San Diego and with employees across the globe, Seismic is the global leader in sales enablement, backed by firms such as Permira, Ameriprise Financial, EDBI, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and T. Rowe Price. Seismic also recently expanded its team and product portfolio with the acquisition of Percolate, Grapevine6, and Lessonly. Our board of directors is composed of several industry luminaries including John Thompson, former Chairman of the Board for Microsoft.
Seismic is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, age, race, religion, or any other classification which is protected by applicable law.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.