Verkada
Director of Mid-Market Sales, UK
London. Posted 2 months ago
The role
The Director of Mid-Market Sales will lead, manage, and mentor a team of UK Mid-Market Sales Managers. The role focuses on meeting sales revenue goals for accounts up to 2,000 employees in the Corporate space.
What you will do
- Lead the team of UK Mid-Market Sales Managers
- Recruit, hire, and mentor new sales representatives
- Conduct weekly forecast meetings
- Report sales activity and forecast to the VP of Sales
- Monitor sales activity and track results
- Quote, negotiate, and assist sales reps in closing complex transactions
- Build and maintain executive relationships with channel partners in the UK
- Manage daily and weekly activities, pipelines, forecasts and closed deals
- Coordinate weekly and monthly one-on-one and team-wide pipeline reviews and training
Required qualifications
- Demonstrated success in directly leading a high-performing sales team
- Demonstrated different influencing styles
- History of building and maintaining trusting relationships with colleagues and customers
- Proven experience in working in an indirect sales model
- Experience of leading, coaching, and developing account executives
- Successful track record in a high-volume transaction sales environment
- Excellent presentation and listening skills
- Ability to thrive in a very rapidly changing environment
- Ability to hire and train new sales representatives and coach lower performers
- Successful history of closing business and over-achieving quota
- Demonstrated ability to accurately forecast sales results
- Willingness to travel
Benefits
- Healthcare programs with 100% covered employee premiums under most plans
- 100% covered family premiums under most plans
- Private medical and dental coverage
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Retirement saving options
- Paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Professional development stipend
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter Benefits
Before you apply
- Verkada will sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role
About the company
Verkada transforms how organizations protect people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform. The company has more than 30,000 customers and a $5.8B valuation.