AVP – Enterprise Sales, West

Role Overview

• Guide and manage activities of the RVP to ensure company revenue goals and objectives are exceeded
• Ensure each team member is prospecting, conducting discovery calls, organizing demonstrations, building a pipeline, and moving opportunities towards a win
• Prepare, coach, and support the sales team by phone and on-site interactions in their sales meetings with prospects
• Encourage and participate regularly with on-site customer meetings, including at least two meetings per month with each team member
• Provide accurate forecasting in Salesforce.com including deals in commit, upside, and pipeline
• Ensure Salesforce.com is embraced by yourself and the team including Leads, Activities, Opportunities, Products, and Forecasting
• Develop and execute a business plan to expand business into new accounts by leveraging company generated leads, business development, partners, channels, associations, and other sales generated leads
• Manage the closing of current-quarter deals while nurturing longer-term opportunities
• Coordinate, manage, and conduct one-on-one and team meetings, and training sessions to ensure ongoing improvement and best-practice sharing amongst the team
• Attract, hire, onboard, train, and retain top sales talent while managing attrition
• Display a thorough understanding of business needs and revenue potential for accounts
• Work with team members individually for ongoing development while always promoting a healthy team environment
• Prepare Sales Directors and yourself for Quarterly Business Reviews
• Other duties as assigned by leadership

Requirements

• 10+ years of enterprise software sales experience successfully selling solutions at the C-level
• 7+ years of direct sales management experience
• Successful track record in a high volume transaction sales environment and longer term strategic sales with success in leading and closing at least 10 deals per year
• Experience managing and building a team of successful SaaS and/or Cloud sales professionals
• Total comfort demonstrating SaaS/cloud-based software and discussing it with prospects
• Strong track record of exceeding company sales quotas in a complex sales environment
• Proven leadership ability to influence, develop and empower team members to achieve objectives with a team approach
• Experience in territory management and planning, at the regional and account levels
• Proven expertise with teaching, coaching, and training sales methodologies
• Willing to travel at least 50% and as needed throughout the region
• Excellent C-level communication skills
• Strong written, verbal, presentation and organizational skills required
• Bachelor's Degree required.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• SFDC

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage, beginning on the first day of employment. Five9 covers 100% of the employee portion of the health, dental and vision coverage and shares a high portion of the dependent cost.
• Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance, and a 401k saving plan with employer matching.
• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
• Generous employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid Time Off, Company paid holidays, paid volunteer hours and 12 weeks paid parental leave.