07 Oct
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Nameless
|
Chennai
Job Description
The Vice President of Sales will oversee the company’s global sales organization, strategic planning, customer acquisition, and account growth initiatives. This role requires strong leadership capabilities, cross -functional collaboration, and expertise in enterprise sales within AI/ML, semiconductor, embedded systems, video, and industrial technology domains.
The ideal candidate must possess extensive experience managing complex enterprise accounts, building scalable sales processes, driving multimillion -dollar revenue opportunities, and mentoring high -performing sales teams across multiple geographies.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Develop and execute the company’s global sales strategy aligned with business objectives and revenue goals.
- Lead sales planning, forecasting, pipeline management, and business growth initiatives.
- Drive customer acquisition strategies and market expansion across North America, Europe, APAC, and other strategic regions.
- Partner with executive leadership, including the CEO, CRO, and Business Unit Heads, to define and execute go -to -market strategies.
- Identify emerging market trends, customer needs, and competitive opportunities to strengthen market positioning.
Revenue & Business Growth
- Own and achieve annual bookings, revenue, and pipeline growth targets.
- Drive growth across strategic and self -managed enterprise accounts.
- Lead complex deal negotiations and oversee the successful closure of high -value enterprise opportunities.
- Build and maintain strong executive relationships with key customers, stakeholders, influencers, and decision -makers.
- Expand business opportunities across Semiconductor, Automotive, Industry Automation, Media, and Enterprise AI/ML sectors.
Sales Leadership & Team Management
- Build, mentor, and lead a high -performing global sales organization.
- Establish performance goals, KPIs, and accountability frameworks for the sales team.
- Coach sales leaders and account managers on strategic selling, account penetration, and customer engagement.
- Foster a cooperative, results -oriented, and customer -centric sales culture.
- Drive alignment between sales, marketing, sales operations, and business units.
Key Account Management
- Oversee strategic account planning and customer relationship management.
- Ensure deep organizational reach within customer accounts, including executive leadership, R&D;, business, and procurement teams.
- Maintain executive -level organizational mapping for strategic accounts exceeding USD 100K in annualized revenue.
- Conduct periodic business reviews with key customers to strengthen partnerships and identify growth opportunities.
- Manage customer expectations, escalations, and issue resolution in collaboration with business units and executive leadership.
Operational Excellence & CRM Governance
- Lead sales forecasting and reporting on weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue pipelines.
- Ensure CRM accuracy, opportunity tracking, deal progression, and customer engagement visibility.
- Collaborate closely with Sales Operations to optimize sales processes, reporting, and operational efficiency.
- Analyze sales performance metrics and implement corrective actions to improve bookings and conversion rates.
- Drive continuous improvement in sales effectiveness, pipeline quality, and customer engagement processes.
Cross -Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Business Unit Heads and product teams to develop customer -focused solutions and sales enablement materials.
- Collaborate with marketing teams to support market penetration and demand generation initiatives.
- Support product positioning, solution messaging, and strategic partnerships.
- Facilitate communication between customers and internal engineering, delivery, and leadership teams.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Electronics,
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. MBA preferred.
- 15+ years of enterprise software/services sales experience, with at least 5+ years in senior sales leadership roles.
- Strong domain expertise in AI/ML, embedded systems, semiconductor, video technologies, sensor engineering, or enterprise technology solutions.
- Proven track record of driving multimillion -dollar revenue growth and closing enterprise deals exceeding USD 500K.
- Experience managing international sales across US, Europe, and APAC markets.
- Demonstrated success in leading and scaling high -performing sales teams.
- Strong understanding of complex enterprise sales cycles and strategic account management.
- Experience working with Semiconductor, Automotive, Industrial Automation, and Media industries.
- Excellent leadership, negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and strategic planning capabilities.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Revenue & Growth
- Achieve or exceed annual revenue and booking targets.
- Deliver year -over -year growth across strategic and enterprise accounts.
- Expand pipeline opportunities and improve sales conversion rates.
Customer Engagement
- Strengthen executive -level relationships within strategic customer organizations.
- Improve organizational reach across customer business units, R&D;, and procurement teams.
- Increase customer retention, satisfaction, and account expansion.
Sales Operations
- Maintain accurate sales forecasting and CRM hygiene.
- Improve pipeline visibility, opportunity management, and deal velocity.
- Drive operational efficiency and sales process optimization.
Leadership & Team Development
- Build and retain a high -performing sales organization.
- Improve sales productivity, coaching effectiveness, and team performance.
- Foster collaboration across sales, operations, marketing, and business units.
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