Sales Leader - Canada

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · ON, CA · Sales Management

Sales Leader for Microsoft Advertising's Performance Solutions in Canada, responsible for driving revenue growth, managing a team of Account Executives/Managers, developing sales strategies, and fostering client relationships. Requires significant sales and leadership experience in digital media and advertising.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring as well as attracting and retaining great people. You will drive business growth by leading sales planning and strategies to achieve consumption and sales targets. Sets direction, creates vision, inspires others and demonstrates presence.
  2. You will hold team accountable for forecasting expected sales revenue within the portfolio/customer segment(s) within their markets by defining expectations and goals to guide the development strategies to manage pipeline and meet sales goals by reviewing forecasts, assessing and mitigating risks, and ensuring strategy alignment with business priorities and share best practices while maintaining a high level of commitment and accountability.
  3. With your expert understanding of digital media platforms and technologies including competitor potential impact, you will leverage this to understand industry trends and how they shape market making opportunities.
  4. You will direct long-term customer satisfaction growth and maintenance strategies and drive business portfolio management to contribute to overall business growth as you manage relationships with customer stakeholders and the collection of feedback within the portfolio to identify and understand the drivers of satisfaction and/or dissatisfaction.
  5. You will direct the development and implementation of strategies for maximizing selling and customer add opportunities and ensure plans highlight solutions to solving additional business and technology issues while providing guidance on storytelling strategies to lead account conversations, evaluating account performance, developing short- and long-term strategies, and acting upon optimization opportunities.

Skills

Required

  • Master's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 7+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 8+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years direct/formal people management experience.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 10+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Computer Science, Engineering (e.g., Electrical or Mechanical), Business Management, Economics, or related field AND 6+ years experience in sales, marketing/advertising, managing high performance sales and technical-sales teams, and/or leadership roles in multi-tiered large organizations OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years experience leading teams and/or managers in a Sales organization.
  • 4+ years direct/formal, indirect/informal, and/or project team people management experience.

What the JD emphasized

  • direct management of a group of Account Executives and/or Account Managers
  • proven track record of building, managing, and growing high-performing sales teams
  • people management
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