Sales Director - California

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Job Title

What does a great Senior Sales Leader do?
You will lead a team of Sales Professionals focused on the delivery of predictable and profitable sales attainment for the SMB market. This is a "hunter" role and you will have the opportunity to utilize your SMB market expertise. You will have national sales responsibilities and work with clients from the east to west coast.

As a Senior Sales Leader, you can look forward to:

• Executing the sales plan.
• Assigning clients, territories and sales targets to sales staff and ensuring sales goals are met.
• Planning and directing sales activities across the US to ensure staffing requirements are fulfilled.
• Managing and proactively helping drive the creation of sales pipeline.
• Defining and executing sales strategies and tactics to increase new merchant sales and add-on revenue.
• Supervising, developing, motivating and mentoring sales staff.
• Building and maintaining a working relationship with referral partners to ensure high lead flow and a positive partnership experience
• Administering compensation.
• Assessing sales performance and executing action plans to improve performance.
• Actively managing sales staff in all phases of sales lifecycle, including new lead generation, nurturing sales opportunities, closing business and activating new merchants.
• Providing guidance and eliminating obstacles in high value opportunities.
• Producing key management reports, including sales forecasts, pipeline analysis and sales productivity.
• Ensuring salesforce.com usage and data accuracy.
• Providing thought leadership around key market & industry insights

You're the kind of person who:

• Has experience selling merchant acquiring solutions to the SMB market. You are looking for a "hunter" role within a fast-paced sales environment. You can build a sales culture of independent sales executives.

Basic qualifications for consideration:

• Minimum 12 years of sales and sales management experience.
• Experience selling merchant acquiring solutions to the SMB market.
•  Experience managing a successful sales team selling direct to SMB merchants.
• A proven track record of exceeding sales targets on a consistent basis.
• Demonstrated success at leading field sales organizations of at least 50 sales professionals.
• Ability to travel 50%+ across the US.
• High school diploma or equivalent is required.

Preferred qualifications for consideration:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Master’s Degree a plus.

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Salary Range: $95,000 - $105,000

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