Sales Director NSP
At a glance
Director-level Sales Leadership role at Adtran (ADTRAN). Remote, United States · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $150,795–$241,313 across the United States.
Adtran (ADTRAN) has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
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What you'll do
- Build durable relationships throughout national service provider accounts and turn their priorities into customer value
- Lead complex sales involving Optical Transport, Carrier Ethernet, Broadband, CPE, and Software offerings
- Create near- and long-term sales programs with senior management to grow profitable product revenue
- Assess service provider market conditions, competitor moves, and customer requirements to find winnable opportunities
- Shape new-product ideas and existing-product opportunities with product management for national service providers
What you bring
- A bachelor's degree in a listed business, finance, marketing, engineering, or computing field, unless equivalent experience replaces it
- At least five years selling in the field to service provider accounts
- Working knowledge of Adtran's business approach, technologies, and position in the marketplace
- Proficiency with SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
Who this fits
You'll suit a senior field-sales leader who can handle complex service provider deals, collaborate with sales, solutions engineering, product management, marketing, and senior management, and contribute to planning. Extensive travel is required. A master's degree in finance, marketing, or computer information science is preferred.
From the employer
Welcome!
Our Growth is Creating Great Opportunities!
Our team is expanding, and we want to hire the most talented people we can. Continued success depends on it! Once you've had a chance to explore our current open positions, apply to the ones you feel suit you best and keep track of both your progress in the selection process, and new postings that might interest you!
Thanks for your interest in working on our team!
Job Summary
The Sales Director will be responsible for identifying, developing, and executing new sales opportunities within the assigned national service providers with the goal of achieving sales volume and profits consistent with company objectives. The Sales Director will contribute to the company's overall strategy development and provide sales and business-planning expertise to the rest of the sales / solutions engineering team, marketing managers, and product management organization.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Build strong, lasting relationships across the target customer organization. Understand their needs and objectives and leverage this information to deliver exceptional value to the customer.
- Manage complex sales situations for the broad Adtran portfolio, including Optical Transport, Carrier Ethernet, Broadband, CPE, and Software.
- Work closely with other members of the sales team, solutions engineering, and product management to formulate plans, initiatives, goals, and objectives for Adran sales activities to rapidly expand market share.
- Develop and execute both short and long-range sales plans and programs in conjunction with Senior Management, to ensure the profitability and growth of the company's products.
- Oversee market analysis, monitor competitive activity, and identify customer needs within the service provider market.
- Identify the strategic business opportunities and potential tactics needed to win new business opportunities.
- Work with product management to identify and evaluate new opportunities for existing products. Identify and communicate the opportunity for potential new products and solutions for the national service provider markets.
- Maintain a current working knowledge of Adtran products, current technology, future industry trends, relevant competitive solutions, products, and services.
- Other projects and assignments may result and be assigned to accommodate the changing needs of the department and the Company.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Marketing, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Science or related field required.
- 5+ years of field sales experience calling on service provider accounts.
- Equivalent experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Must be knowledgeable of Adtran's business philosophy, familiar with Adtran technologies, and understand how Adtran fits into the marketplace.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office: SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word required.
- Extensive travel is required in this position to support Adtran's sales objectives.
Preferred Qualifications (Highly Desirable)
- Master's Degree Finance, Marketing, Computer Information Science is preferred.
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