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We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

We are seeking a proven, tactical and strategic Regional Sales Director to lead a team of Account Executives who are tasked with generating growth in our mid market accounts.

The appointed RSD will play a key role in driving strategic sales initiatives within the region. Lead a highly visible and motivated team that generates revenues and achieves individual, team and organizational quotas. You'll be a valuable contributor to the corporate sales strategy while providing definition and implementation of the plan for Sales to achieve corporate objectives. Ideal candidates should possess solid business-to-business application sales and management history. We are proud to contribute to the success of companies of all sizes, in all industries, around the globe. Salesforce provides a compelling opportunity for Sales Professionals with a proven track record of exceeding quota in technology sales.

It is a key role, leading highly visible and motivated sales executives in our expanding sales operation in Germany for the Mid-Market sector that generates revenue and achieves individual, team and organizational quotas. Our ‘Ohana’ Culture is a pivotal element of our success at Salesforce so your leadership will encompass strong energy, passion and the ability to lead a dynamic workforce.

Your Impact:

• Supporting Account Executives by participating and leading in client meetings and engaging other corporate resources as required

• Ongoing mentoring and development of sales team which includes recruiting, hiring and training duties

• Conducting weekly revenue forecast meetings for respective territories

• Coach and professionally develop Account Executives regarding strategies to drive closure rates and opportunity identification

• Reporting on sales activity and revenue forecast

• Consistently monitoring and enhancing the sales activities of the team

• Develop the Go To Market strategy for the respective territory

• Identify hiring and competency / skills gaps in Sales team

Basic Requirements:

• Strong demonstrated and proven software sales experience

• Deep knowledge of how to win new accounts

• Demonstrated people management experience of a sales team (min. 5 people)

• Demonstrated experience of implementing management theories

• Solid understanding of what we at Salesforce do

• Bachelor’s degree qualified is preferable

• Ability to travel EMEA wide when required

Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes’s “World’s Most Innovative Company” five years in a row and one of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” eight years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and this level of growth equals incredible opportunities to grow a career at Salesforce. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for "family") made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world.

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