Sales Director

Summary

Join NICE Actimize as the Director of Sales and lead a mid-market sales team, driving revenue and operations. You will develop and deploy sales strategies, manage team performance, and build customer relationships. This role requires extensive experience in software sales within the financial services sector, strong leadership skills, and the ability to articulate complex solutions. You will collaborate with internal partners and drive account planning to achieve revenue goals. NICE Actimize offers a dynamic and collaborative work environment with opportunities for growth and development within a market-leading company.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience selling multiple software products and services into sophisticated financial services accounts
• Experience selling to MBCA and other mid-market institutions & banking associations
• Comprehensive leadership abilities around coaching employees and proactively managing performance as well as departmental development of objectives, goals and KPIs
• Substantive exposure and engagement with the planning, execution and management of complex software sales and marketing projects
• Exceptional communication and presentations skills that build confidence and credibility. Highly articulate and able to confidently explain complex models in a clear simplified manner
• Demonstrated ability to develop relationships with the ‘C’ or VP level business users to articulate business value and influence strategic application of NICE Actimize solutions
• Inherent self-sufficiency, flexibility and confidence with a preference for autonomy to take ownership and manage activities & processes to achieve revenue results
• Strong domain expertise combined with advanced strategic and project management skills. Able to manage multiple, complex sales opportunities simultaneously
• Travel up to 50%

Responsibilities

• Presides over the revenue and operations of a Mid-Market sales team
• Effectively manage this team to expand the product saturation in the territory, build the customer base in untapped markets and displace NICE Actimize competitors while holding their own account base
• Extensive strategic development and deployment of the organizational sales strategy as well as best practices methodologies that demonstrate NICE Actimize’s extensive capabilities as an advanced solution provider
• Leverage sales and leadership experience to drive exceptional sales process and performance management within their department population
• Provides results driven and thoughtful direction to sales individual contributors that improves sales skills and drives quota attainment
• Master a deep understanding of the qualitative strategies and initiatives of the NICE Actimize sales team, including an understanding of the performance metrics or KPIs that will be used to measure the success of execution
• Drive and develop account plans with the sales executives that position NICE Actimize capabilities in anticipation of customer’s business strategies and goals
• Consult and plan with internal sales partners and develop methods to address and resolve account challenges outside the capacity of the sales executive
• Confidently speak in great detail regarding all of NICE Actimize’s products while working in deep collaboration when necessary with the functional, industry or technical partners
• When necessary, engage account team, partners, and internal company resources in creating and executing account strategy
• Provide critical insights to the sales executives and customers that generate best-in-class credibility and contribute to a market leadership position for the company
• Drive the analysis of customer’s business situations from multiple viewpoints to identify gaps and new opportunities
• Create and execute high revenue, multi-year business plans with the sales executives
• Communicate information about internal NICE Actimize changes and actions while protecting customer from negative impact

Preferred Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years of previous experience leading a software or technology sales team
• Experience/knowledge of Actimize solutions

Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment!
• Endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations