At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the microphone and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
Senior Enterprise Sales Manager - DACH
Why We Have This Role
Qualtrics is hiring a proactive individual to lead one of our Strategic Enterprise Sales teams in Germany. In this role, your primary focus will be on leading the team to success, with a focus on coaching and mentoring as well as driving net new revenue for Qualtrics. Our Sales team is a group of highly driven individuals dedicated to closing experience gaps. Our SaaS platform is used to help some of the largest organizations in the world drive action with pre-built experience management (XM) programs and projects that anyone can use. The ideal candidate would be someone who is results driven, and has a strong operating rhythm. Adaptability, leading with empathy, and a positive approach will be paramount.
How You’ll Find Success
- Relationship Building: Master stakeholder mapping to cultivate relationships with multiple contacts within an account, ensuring lasting partnerships.
- Negotiation Skills: Navigate negotiations with professionalism, understanding the art of give-and-take.
- Multi-Selling Approach: Drive engagement with various business stakeholders in parallel to create multifaceted selling opportunities.
- Empathetic Competitiveness: While being competitive, possess the ability to empathize and understand others’ perspectives.
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Take initiative to grasp the expected outcomes and context, working independently to drive results.
- Effective Communication: Influence effectively at all levels, creating trust and collaboration within the team.
How You’ll Grow
- By joining Qualtrics, you become part of a team that dares to pursue groundbreaking experiences.
- Our mission is to build technology that positively impacts businesses and makes them more human.
- As a member of our global sales organization, you will take ownership of a dedicated team. Your responsibilities will include developing a robust team strategy designed to drive demand and revenue.
- We encourage big-picture thinking and foster an environment that embraces innovation and creativity. You will build relationships with multiple decision makers in an account and educate them on the value of Qualtrics.
Things You’ll Do
Lead a team of Strategic Account Executives.
Coaching direct reports in sales strategy, pipeline management, opportunity management, and career planning/development.
- Operating rhythm is a critical success factor for this role.
Recruit, retain, and nurture your team of experienced strategic ales professionals with high potential and strong performance history.
Provide skill training and mentoring on complex sales motions, including collaboration with legal, product presentations, juggling multiple relationships with internal teams, and quarterly sales forecasting.
Interface and develop professional relationships with existing clients and prospects throughout at all levels of an organization.
Display a systemic approach to handling meaningful contract negotiations/deals with multiple reps at a time.
Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of Qualtrics' solution offerings.
Maintain a real-time understanding of the competitive landscape to assist in building win-based proposals and pricing.
Serve as an executive sponsor during complex deals.
Maintain a real-time understanding of the competitive landscape to assist in determining win-based proposals and pricing.
Develop and maintain positive relationships with other functional areas internally at Qualtrics, e.g., Professional Services, Implementation, Subject Matter Experts, etc, to ensure a collaborative approach to secure large enterprise engagements
Demonstrate experience successfully managing through change in a fast-growing environment.
Entrepreneurial approach to effectively managing a business.
What We’re Looking For On Your Resume
A validated winner that has led teams to breakthrough results. Strong track record closing and/or managing multi-million deals.
At least 6-8 years of individual enterprise-level sales experience
At least 4-5 years managing a sales team to achieve great results
SaaS selling experience with long, complex sales cycles and multi-stakeholder negotiations.
Record of over-exceeding quarterly team quotas through metric based skill development and internal team management
Experience and understanding of working on complex contract negotiations
Experience using MEDDIC sales processes, or similar
Experience using Salesforce.com and measuring system compliance
Fluency in German and English
You are open to travel up to once/twice a month
Nice-to-haves
- Background in CX, Experience Management (XM), market research, analytics, or related enterprise SaaS solutions
- Experience selling to automotive, manufacturing, utilities, financial services, or public sector.
- Prior experience at scale-ups or hypergrowth SaaS companies
What You Should Know About This Team
- We work with a team of highly motivated, ambitious individuals. Keeping that energy and spirit alive is critical, while balancing an expectation of meritocracy as it pertains to performance management.
- Our customer satisfaction rate is incredibly high and a point of pride for our teams. Identifying ways to continue to delight stakeholders is key.
- Creating space and encouraging/ expecting innovation to come from different areas of the team is critical to our team’s and company’s growth and success.
- The day-to-day in this role is dynamic and fast paced - the ability to prioritize and focus is critical to success
Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Qualtrics Experience Program - A bonus each year for an experience of your choosing
- Worldwide and diverse community that enjoys helping each other
- At Qualtrics we are constantly working to create an environment where everyone feels safe and comfortable coming to work and can, as a result of our culture, make their best
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life. #hybrid
Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
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Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.
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