Professional Services Business Development Director

Smartsheet Smartsheet · Seattle · United Kingdom · Professional Services

This role is for a Professional Services Business Development Director at Smartsheet, focusing on selling professional services offerings to enterprise customers to accelerate their adoption of the Smartsheet platform. The role involves creating territory plans, forecasting bookings, managing pipeline, developing new business, leading proposal presentations, and overseeing the transition to delivery resources. It requires experience in SaaS, carrying a significant services bookings quota, and experience with AI workflows and tooling is a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create services-specific territory plans outlining priority accounts, big bets, and stakeholder relationship maps that will contribute into Account Executives’ overall account and territory plans
  2. Accurately forecast professional services monthly and quarterly bookings for your aligned territories
  3. Develop new business and follow-on expansion services pipeline through tailored outbound campaigns
  4. Lead the presentation of Solution proposals with experience landing compelling value propositions at multiple levels of a Customer organization: individual contributor, manager, executive
  5. Monitor projects during delivery, keeping relationships active with key Customer stakeholders, ready to assist with any risk, issue, escalation resolution or follow-on opportunity identification and execution

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience carrying a £3M+ annual services bookings quota for Enterprise (>5k employee) customers, frequently closing Professional Services opportunities >£100K
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills including needs analysis discovery, solution positioning, business justification, and proven closing techniques
  • Experience leading effective outbound services pipeline generation motions
  • Prior experience working in SaaS
  • Ability to travel, as needed, up to 25%
  • Ability to be in the London office at least 1 day per week, preferably 2-3 days per week
  • BS degree or equivalent
  • Legally eligible to work in the UK on an ongoing basis

Nice to have

  • Eagerness to utilize AI workflows and tooling to scale impact

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience carrying a £3M+ annual services bookings quota for Enterprise (>5k employee) customers, frequently closing Professional Services opportunities >£100K