Director of Enterprise Sales

As the Regional Director of Enterprise Sales you will drive our enterprise sales adoption and report directly to the VP of Sales. You will leverage relationships with CPG executives and develop new relationships with business leaders to understand their unique company challenges and to influence their perspective of Skupos Enterprise solutions. You will do this with deep industry understanding, communicating the business value of our platform to drive value. 

You will help drive our Enterprise market penetration with overall responsibility for building broad product adoption in the Midwest Region. The Regional Director of Enterprise Sales will require both strategic and day-to-day leadership to continue to grow our platform adoption. Responsibilities include selling to the largest CPG accounts, expanding partners, and collaborating cross-functionally across Product, Operations, Marketing and Engineering to drive sales growth.

What you’ll do in the role: 

• Lead and manage the entire Enterprise sales-cycle in the Midwest Region (organizational planning, execution, and closing key CPG accounts)
• Influence the companies sales methodology and drive best practices on selling, forecasting, and account management within large key accounts.
• Continuously design, build and execute Go-to-Market Enterprise strategies for the region in collaboration with cross-functional leadership. 
• Strong leadership - Scaling best sales practices across the organization and driving our key account strategy overall. 
• Drive and own business metrics, sales forecasting, functional review meetings, deal review, customer account reviews, weekly team meetings and periodic company-wide kick offs.
• Travel within the Midwest Region and/or U.S. could be expected (up to 50% post-Covid) 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience 
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in quota carrying sales and strategic account management 
• Minimum of 10 years of success selling into consumer packaged goods (CPG) with a focus in the areas of Brand Marketing, Market Research, Category Management, Shopper, & Consumer Insights

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Strong interpersonal communication skills and executive presence
• Extensive knowledge / Experience selling enterprise solutions (SaaS)  
• Knowledge of SaaS business models and B2B channel structures
• Deep understanding of Salesforce CRM 
• Proven ability to sell to large strategic customers in the CPG space
• Proven track record of significant over-quota achievement and demonstrated career stability / growth.
• Driven, entrepreneurial spirit
• Comfortable working in hyper-paced, startup environment
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality results in a timely manner, including consecutively exceeding past sales quotas
• Deep understanding of multiple facets of consumer products with prior experience selling into marketing, shopper and/or consumer insights
• Deep knowledge base of the sales process with the ability to engage senior level executives in strategic meetings to ensure top down alignment 
• Skilled at building and managing customer relationships
• Strong oral, written, and presentation skills
• Understanding of household panel data (Nielsen and/or IRI)