Federal Sales Director - Aerospace and Defense

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What you get to do in this role:

• Build a team of direct Sales Executives to drive rapid new business sales growth in the region
• Build and drive sales strategy for the region in conjunction with Sales Operations to effectively Go-To-Market including understanding the competitive landscape, presence and strength within the region
• Actively engage in territory planning, relationship development and opportunity development and driving revenue by supporting and assisting Field Sales Teams in closing opportunities
• Recruit, coach and mentor team members to drive excellence
• Development of territories and quota for the sales team and effectively communicate to set performance expectations within the team
• Manage and report accurate forecast and pipeline to the business
• Achievement of annual sales goals on a quarterly and annual basis is required
• Engage and align effectively in C-level meetings in order to properly understand customer business requirements
• Build effective working relationships with Solution Consulting, Business Units, Professional Services, Marketing, our Partner community and the ServiceNow executive team
• Retain and grow existing customer base with regular non-sales customer engagement activities to deliver an excellent customer experience

To be successful in this role you have:

• Extensive track record of new business sales success including presentation and negotiation skills within industry and at C Level
• Strong success in recruiting, coaching and managing an exceptional sales team
• Strong strategic thinking including analytical and financial planning skills to meet and exceed quotas and goals.
• Ownership of accurate CRM reports including current and future quarterly forecasts and opportunity inspection
• Experienced in driving sales process and drive effective working relationships with Sales Operations
• Ability to understand the 'bigger picture' and business drivers around IT
• Ability to build long term strategic and senior level relationships
• Ability to adapt and work effectively within a rapidly changing and growing environment
• Demonstrates strong business and financial acumen
• Built self-motivated sales teams that embrace a culture of collaboration, enthusiasm, and overachievement
• Champions and promotes top performers, constantly develops and coaches the team and themselves, and topgrades appropriately
• Proven partner relationships and networks, and ability to grow the impact of revenue streams and territory development through the partner ecosystem
• Ownership of driving successful pipeline generation activities developed by marketing or the partner community

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