Named Sales Director (Canada)

About the Department
The Cloudflare sales team is comprised of Account Executives, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, and Sales Operations - all working together to acquire customers and help them adopt Cloudflare technologies to create great Internet-enabled experiences.
The sales team at Cloudflare helps customers solve real security and performance challenges while creating the revenue streams that help the company provide free services to millions in our community.
What you'll do
We are looking for an experienced Sales Director to lead and grow the Named business in Canada with responsibility for driving Cloudflare's revenue and brand awareness in the region. Based in the Greater Toronto Area, the Sales Director will require both strategic and hands-on leadership skills to lead the go-to-market strategy, including hiring, leading and growing the sales team, build pipelines, and drive sales to grow the business in the region. In this role you will work actively with prospects, customers, partners and field sales professionals to sell and close deals to build the region.
Additional responsibilities will include:

• Design, build and execute strategies for the Region in collaboration with regional and global functional leaders
• Lead and grow the Canada Named (Enterprise) sales team working with global functional leaders and recruiting resources.
• Serve as the local point person for all Named functions in Canada including customer relationships, pipeline development, account management, sales and partnerships.
• Drive business cadence for forecast calls, business reviews, deal reviews, customer account reviews, weekly team meetings and periodic company-wide meetings.
• Lead programs and campaigns - working across sales, marketing, customer success, solutions engineering, business development and support - to drive awareness, pipeline and sales results.
• Drive sales growth through successful leadership, organizational planning, customer service and outstanding execution of all regional sales and go-to-market strategies.
• Represent Cloudflare as the single point of contact for all Regional operational concerns, ensuring proper and timely escalation and resolution.
• Ensure that corporate policy and regulatory initiatives are consistently applied and followed by team members.
• Outstanding leadership that inspires interpersonal effectiveness, develops talent and effects change. Willing and able to be a "doer" and "influencer".
• Represent Cloudflare at external conferences, media and PR events.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of direct B2B sales experience, selling to large Enterprise accounts
• 5+ years of direct sales management experience leading an Enterprise field sales team.
• Experience managing and coaching long, complex, high value Enterprise sales cycles
• Experience selling into top tier accounts in key verticals including Financial Services, Retail, Industrial. Energy and Media.
• Understanding of IaaS, Networking and Information Security services.
• Aptitude for learning technical concepts/terms (Technical background in engineering, computer science or MIS a plus).
• Strong leadership, presentation, interpersonal communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills.
• Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment.