Commercial Sales Manager - Japan

Qualtrics Qualtrics · Seattle · Tokyo, Japan · APJ Sales - Japan

Commercial Sales Manager for Qualtrics' Experience Management platform, focusing on driving revenue growth through client success and leading a team of Account Executives in Japan. This role involves strategic planning, team coaching, client relationship management, and complex contract negotiations within the enterprise software sector.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team of 6-8 Commercial Account Executives.
  2. Coaching direct reports in sales strategy, pipeline management, opportunity management, and career planning/development.
  3. Recruit, retain, and nurture your team of experienced sales professionals with high potential and strong performance history.
  4. Provide skill training and mentoring on complex sales motions, including collaboration with legal, product presentations, juggling multiple relationships with internal teams, and quarterly sales forecasting.
  5. Serve as an executive sponsor during sales deals.

Skills

Required

  • Sales strategy
  • Pipeline management
  • Opportunity management
  • Sales coaching
  • Recruiting
  • Negotiation
  • Contract management
  • Sales forecasting
  • Client relationship management
  • MEDDIC sales process
  • Salesforce.com
  • Japanese language proficiency
  • English proficiency

Nice to have

  • Experience using AI tools for sales enablement

What the JD emphasized

  • Strong track record of exceeding quota
  • Ability to acquire clients
  • Strong negotiating skills
  • Ability to sell a complex platform
  • At least 6-8 years of individual with field sales experience
  • At least two years managing an field sales team
  • Experience using MEDDIC sales processes
  • Experience over-exceeding quarterly team quotas
  • Experience working on complex contract negotiations
  • Native level Japanese language skills, and business or above English proficiency