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Sr. Mobility Sales Director Vocera Communications
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The Mobility Sales Director is the primary sales executive for Vocera responsible for qualifying sales opportunities, developing sales pipeline, managing the sales cycle and achieving booking and revenue goals, assisting with the development and execution of the company's strategies for acquiring net-new customers within the retail, library, nuclear power and manufacturing industries.
The MSD will develop executive relationships with all key stakeholders, influencing with key decision-makers and influencers at the executive and local level. The MSD will leverage these relationships to identify sales opportunities, and during the sales process, utilize relationships with executive level decision makers to help close business.
The MSD leads Vocera in developing the proper network of relationships/partnerships within the vertical ecosystem including wireless technology and complementary software vendors to facilitate adoption of Vocera within the industry.
Responsibilities
- Identifies, qualifies, and closes sales opportunities to generate sales revenues that meet or exceed assigned goals
- Develops strategic account plans for assigned verticals
- Takes a top down (corporate level) and bottoms up (individual location level) approach to developing sales opportunities within verticals
- Prospects to identify and qualify end-user opportunities
- Engage with corporate level IT, Operations Teams to approve Vocera as one of their preferred solutions
- Ensures positive and thorough account liaison communication between the brand's corporate goals, end user needs, and Vocera deliverables
- Conducts introductory and high-level presentations including the demonstration of Vocera solution
- Negotiates agreements and Master Service Agreements
- Dedicates the preponderance of time in face-to-face and/or direct communication with customers and prospects
- Forecasts business and sales pipeline as required, updating management on the status of all prospects, in-process sales cycles and potential revenue
- Conducts continuous prospecting activities and builds a sales pipeline sufficient to support achievement of sales revenue goals
- Delivers timely technical and administrative product and solution information to create long-term, on-going business relationships and set the stage for future opportunities
- Works internally with GM and Marketing Team to define strategy, go-to-market plans, and product development initiatives that enable Vocera to become a best-of-breed solution communication solution
- Be primary company liaison to key industry networking groups
- Identifies and develops partnership opportunities with complementary industry vendors, such as mobile device OEM's, wireless technology vendors, and 3rd party software vendors which enable sales, deployment and value of the Vocera solution to the industry
Education, Skills & Experience
- BA/BS degree or combination of experience
- A proven track record of successfully selling into large companies at the executive level, with demonstrated track record of success by consistently exceeding performance metrics
- Minimum of five (5+) years of complex solution-based selling, following a defined sales methodology
- Sales experience in technology, software, services, devices, or wireless communications
- Proven track record of consistently meeting and/or exceeding sales performance metrics; i.e., quotas, pipeline, forecast accuracy, etc.
- Proven track record of taking a product within a brand from pilot phase to a scaled rollout
- Demonstrated success in developing opportunities through all phases of the sales cycle from cold calling, qualification, through closure
- Demonstrated proficiency in managing complex sales cycles typically defined as six months or longer with multiple stakeholders, decision-makers and influencers at multiple levels
- Experience (basic or advanced) with Salesforce.com, and virtual meeting and presentation tools like WebEx, LiveMeeting, etc.
- Disciplined use of a formalized sales methodology; e.g., The Complex Sale, Target Account Selling, Power-Base Selling, etc., for opportunity planning and management
- Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills especially in the ability to present concepts and articulate business value
- Display effective interpersonal skills sufficient to build positive, productive, and effective professional working relationships
- Ensure a mutually agreeable deliverable is achieved with the brand's corporate direction and, in turn, the end facility's input for overall satisfaction
- Display a sense of creativity and innovation, with integrity and respect for others
- Develop a passion for Vocera and the targeted markets, along with the ability to display agility to adjust/adapt approaches to growing Vocera's position in the market
Belief in Diversity
Vocera Communications is an Affirmative Action employer and is committed to workforce diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.
| Location: | Chicago, IL United States |
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Vocera Communications
Investors: Avalon Ventures, GGV Capital, Intel Capital, RRE Ventures, Venrock AssociatesAll Jobs: at Vocera Communications
| Web Site: | www.vocera.com |
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| Headquarters: | 525 Race Street Suite 150 San Jose, CA 95126 United States |
| Industry: | Networking and Equipment |
