Regional Sales Director - Tableau & Analytics

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Sydney, Australia

Salesforce is seeking a Regional Sales Director for their Tableau & Analytics business in Sydney, Australia. This role involves leading and mentoring a team of Account Executives, driving sales strategies, forecasting, and pipeline management. The ideal candidate will have people management experience, a strong track record of exceeding quota, consultative sales skills, and analytical abilities. Experience in SaaS, BI, analytics, AI, and customer data is highly regarded. The company emphasizes its AI capabilities and its role in workforce transformation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Inspire, mentor, and grow a team of Account Executives focused on businesses within our Tableau & Analytics organisation
  2. Drive a high-performance culture with a growth mindset, consistently pushing the team to exceed targets
  3. Build strategies with cross-functional partners, aligning support across Sales Development, Marketing, Solution Engineering, Sales Programs, Productivity, and Partner Alliances
  4. Own forecasting and reporting on the critical drivers of your business, delivering insight and clarity to leadership
  5. Bring an analytical, data-driven approach to pipeline management and business planning, leading by example

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years of people management experience
  • demonstrated ability to develop and motivate high-performing sales teams
  • A strong track record of consistently exceeding quota across a team
  • Consultative sales approach
  • ability to build compelling growth strategies
  • articulate ROI
  • drive strategic business planning
  • Sharp analytical skills
  • comfortable synthesising sales data to optimise the funnel and inform decisions
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • ability to build influential relationships across a matrixed, cross-functional environment

Nice to have

  • Prior experience in Software/SaaS, Infrastructure (IaaS), or Platform (PaaS) technology environments
  • Domain expertise in business intelligence, analytics, AI, and customer data

What the JD emphasized

  • proven Sales Leader
  • accelerating growth
  • exceed targets
  • analytical, data-driven approach
  • strong track record of consistently exceeding quota