Remote Enterprise Open Source Sales Manager

Summary

Join Canonical's global sales team as a Regional Sales Team Manager to lead a team of enterprise sales representatives in Europe, Middle East, India, Asia, ANZ, Africa, Latin America, Central America, and North America. As a key player in driving open source adoption, you will be responsible for building relationships with enterprises, developing territory plans, and managing pipeline development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's level degree, preferably in engineering or computer science
• Leadership and management skill
• Experience of open source technology and solutions
• Detail oriented with effective planning, organisation and reporting skill
• Experience in enterprise software or technology sales planning and execution
• Track record of achievement in sales targets and new account wins
• Self-discipline and motivation to be successful in a distributed team
• Professional written and spoken English, as well as any language that may be appropriate for your target market
• Ability to travel for customer engagements, industry events and company events

Responsibilities

• Build and execute a territory plan to prioritize outreach and prospecting
• Allocate portions of territory and accounts to sales representatives on your team
• Identify and prioritise new logo accounts in your territory for account-based marketing and prospecting
• Ensure that sales representatives have high quality account plans for existing accounts and priority prospects
• Monitor new pipeline development by your team, through outreach, prospecting, local marketing, and industry events
• Support contract closure to meet and exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets
• Be mindful and proactive in achieving tactical and strategic objectives
• Work with customer success to identify growth opportunities
• Ensure your team maintain accurate pipeline data and forecasts within Salesforce
• Represent the company, its solutions and software

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team meetings in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events