Regional Sales Director - Alpine (remote, Switzerland)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Austria, Switzerland · Remote

This is a Regional Sales Director role for CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company. The role focuses on leading sales teams, developing sales strategies, and achieving sales goals within the Alpine region. While the company mentions an "AI-native platform", the role itself is in sales leadership and does not involve building or directly working with AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Providing leadership and management oversight to Regional Sales Managers within the Alpine region to drive all pertinent issues related to sales strategy and goal attainment.
  2. Participating in strategic planning sessions with the sales management team on a quarterly and annual basis.
  3. Communicating corporate strategy to employees within the Alpine region.
  4. Planning and directing activities including sales pipeline generation, forecasting, customer relationship development and satisfaction.
  5. Establishing short-term and long-term goals, metrics and quotas in line with corporate and regional objectives.

Skills

Required

  • Proven experience with, knowledge of, and network within the Alpine market, notably within the tech industry
  • Experience in a first line sales leader role and having worked in a people leadership position is required
  • Passionate relationship building and executive level negotiating skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with functional peers across functions including Channel, Marketing, Sales Operations, System Engineering, Services Customer Support, and Product Development.
  • Experience as a successful Regional Sales Director with a track record of exceeding assigned sales quotas in the Alpine region
  • Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques.
  • An aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems.
  • Demonstrated experience working with Sales organizations and technical teams.
  • A demonstrated ability to manage professional level employees.
  • Ability to foster a positive work environment and attitude.
  • Excellent communications and presentation skills.
  • Written and spoken fluency in German and English.

Nice to have

  • Strong understanding of Cybersecurity technologies and competitive offerings in the marketplace is advantageous.
  • Written and spoken fluency in French.

What the JD emphasized

  • Proven experience with, knowledge of, and network within the Alpine market, notably within the tech industry
  • Experience in a first line sales leader role and having worked in a people leadership position is required
  • Experience as a successful Regional Sales Director with a track record of exceeding assigned sales quotas in the Alpine region