Mid Market Sales Manager - South Central

Abnormal AI · Vertical AI · United States · Remote · MidMarket

This role is for a Mid Market Sales Manager responsible for leading a sales team, driving revenue growth, and exceeding sales targets within a specific region. The manager will focus on team development, pipeline generation, account strategy, customer relationships, and forecasting. Experience in selling security, networking, or software solutions, and leading sales teams focused on new business acquisition is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Recruit and hire a world-class team of sellers, on time and on budget
  2. Clearly articulate, manage and enable sellers to hit all key productivity metrics and milestones of growth
  3. Instill a disciplined approach to pipeline generation, leveraging all available resources, including field sales, marketing, channel partners, and sales development to accelerate new business.
  4. Develop an overall account strategy for the region resulting in strong execution and collaborative team selling.
  5. Partner closely with Sales Engineering to deliver outstanding product demonstrations and a repeatable technology validation/proof-of-concept program.

Skills

Required

  • Sales leadership
  • Team management
  • Pipeline generation
  • Account strategy
  • Customer relationship management
  • Forecasting
  • Partner management
  • Sales methodologies
  • Presentation skills
  • Communication skills

Nice to have

  • Familiarity and experience using consultative, value-based sales methodologies (Force Management, Challenger Sale, etc.)

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum 3+ years of sales experience with a demonstrated track record of success exceeding sales quotas selling security, networking and/or software solutions.
  • Minimum of 3+ years leading a sales team focused on growing new business and new logos.
  • Strong hunter mentality: direct experience managing teams responsible for creating new demand, new customer acquisition, and sourcing new pipeline.
  • A winner, someone who holds themselves accountable to consistent over-achievement.
  • Successful experience closing complex sales with multiple buying influences in new or emerging solution categories.
  • Experience managing and closing deals of $50K+ as well higher value transactions above $100K+.
  • Experience establishing and fostering strong relationships with potential partners and customers at executive levels.