Strategic Sales Lead

Canva Canva · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom · Sales

Strategic Sales Lead for Canva Enterprise in EMEA, focusing on revenue growth, customer satisfaction, process optimization, and team building within a SaaS environment. Requires 5+ years of sales management experience with strategic customers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Revenue growth: rapidly grow Canva Enterprise across EMEA, amongst a team of Strategic AEs, to help hit the company’s overall Enterprise revenue targets
  2. Customer enthusiasm: extend Canva’s tradition of high customer satisfaction across teams and continue to prioritise user feedback and excitement as the Canva Enterprise business accelerates
  3. Best-in-class processes, practices, and efficiency: create, educate and refine the team practices, sales playbooks, and KPIs needed for operating as a top SaaS business (including but not limited to): pipeline development, conversion rates, forecasting, hiring, performance management, enablement, training, partnerships, and cross-functional collaboration
  4. Hire, motivate, develop and retain top talent: build a team of A-players and raise the talent bar for the organisation
  5. Build great partnerships: come together with an exceptional sales development and operations team alongside the product and marketing dream team ensuring we are offering an exceptional experience for Strategic customers!

Skills

Required

  • Proven success managing individual sellers in a market-leading SaaS business with Strategic customers
  • Ability to attract, motivate, and manage A+ talent
  • Ability to prioritise focus of effort and inquiry with an eye to business impact / outcomes
  • Clear thinking and communication
  • Ability to communicate complex concepts and insights concisely and with actionable so-what
  • Independent / self-starter
  • Action oriented
  • Experience and comfortable forecasting deals from 0-100 on a weekly basis

Nice to have

  • Humility and willingness to question one’s own assumptions / desire to constantly improve

What the JD emphasized

  • minimum of 5 years proven success managing individual sellers in a market-leading SaaS business with Strategic customers (10,000 FTE's+)