Sr. Manager, Sales - Manufacturing Industry

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Gurgaon, India

This is a sales leadership role for Salesforce's Manufacturing Industry Cloud business. The Sr. Manager will lead a team of Account Executives, drive sales strategies for new customer acquisition and existing customer growth, and focus on team coaching and development. The role requires a strong sales background, experience managing sales teams, and understanding of SaaS/CRM solutions within the manufacturing sector. While the company mentions AI and agents, the core function of this role is sales management, not direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Planning and executing in a high-growth and high transaction velocity environment.
  2. Build a culture of collaboration across BDR, Sales dev, Co primes, Specialist products, Solution Engineering, Partner Alliances, Marketing & Employee Success teams.
  3. Building relationships and alliances with industry bodies, startup associations etc to expand sales reach
  4. Collaborate with Solution Engineering, Partners and Alliances to curate solutions apt to industry verticals
  5. Defining a clear and compelling annual plan along with driving a culture of flawless execution and performance

Skills

Required

  • Sales management
  • Team leadership
  • Sales strategy
  • Customer acquisition
  • Account management
  • SaaS sales
  • CRM domain knowledge
  • Business process understanding (manufacturing)
  • Consultative sales skills
  • Business case and ROI development
  • Forecasting
  • PaaS/SaaS understanding
  • Business value selling
  • Presentation skills
  • Executive engagement skills
  • Business Management skills

Nice to have

  • Experience working with Resell partners, Channel executives and associated ecosystem
  • Experience in the SaaS or CRM domain

What the JD emphasized

  • proven, successful background in sales of 14+ years
  • Track record of consistent over-achievement of quota and revenue goals.
  • Managing a team for acquisition of net new customers while growing Install base customers