Director, Enterprise Sales
At a glance
Leadership Sales Leadership role at Databricks. Amsterdam.
Pay not stated
Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Lead enterprise account executives through coaching, skill development, and clear expectations for success
- Set territories, team design, individual quotas, patches, and required investment capacity
- Build revenue forecasts and report on strategic go-to-market programs with accuracy
- Coordinate cross-functional teams across the full revenue and customer-success process
- Create growth and investment plans, then execute them with EMEA function leaders
What you bring
- You have led high-growth enterprise software sales teams serving Benelux customers in Data, AI, or Cloud
- You have repeatedly surpassed sales targets in comparable high-growth technology businesses
- You can recruit salespeople locally and coach using MEDDPIC and a Challenger approach
- You bring value-selling experience with business, IT, and C-suite stakeholders
- Native Dutch and business English are required, along with experience in consumption-based revenue models
Who this fits
This role suits a senior enterprise sales leader who has managed teams, influenced executives, and built strategic customer and partner relationships. You will lead people rather than work solely as an individual contributor, and business travel is required. The position is based in Amsterdam and covers the Benelux region.
From the employer
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Do you want to help solve the world's toughest business problems with Data and AI? This is what we do every day at Databricks.
We are looking for an Enterprise Sales Director to join our growing business in the Benelux Region. Leading a team of Enterprise Account Executives, you will be measured by achieving your team's overall quota and growing Databricks consumption. This is a team of account executives who are passionate about building a data ecosystem, technically knowledgeable and have a strong desire to drive value for our customers.
You will oversee the Enterprise sales team, implementing sales plans, expanding existing business and delivering accurate sales forecasting and reporting.
This is a fantastic opportunity to build upon a highly successful team achieving significant year on year growth, in a fast growing business which is a hugely impactful part of the EMEA sales organisation. We are looking for owners, who will go the extra mile and want to be the very best at what they do.
The position will report to the Regional VP for the Benelux and Nordics.
The impact you will have:
- Lead a team of account executives, ensuring you coach them to develop the skills and behaviours they will need to succeed
- Establish company territory plans, team structure, individual quotas and patches for your team, including investment capacity requirements
- Report on revenue forecast and strategic GTM programs
- Partner with cross-functional teams to manage a complete revenue and customer success process
- Inspire a culture of teamwork, leading with value and achieving desired customers outcomes
- Develop trust-based relationships with customers and partners to ensure long-term success
- Encourage learning and ongoing understanding of technical product details and our future product roadmap
- Establish a revenue growth and investment plan in the first 90 days
- Deliver our strategic growth plans, in collaboration with the other function leaders across EMEA, ensure forecast accuracy and a predictable, high-growth business
What we look for:
- Experience as a high-growth enterprise software sales leader with experience leading sales teams serving Enterprise customers in the Benelux within the Data, AI or Cloud Industry
- History of exceeding sales quotas in similar high-growth technology companies
- Ability to engage with and hire sales talent in the market
- Focus and emphasis on methodology-based sales coaching, MEDDPIC and a Challenger mentality
- Experience of value-based sales with both the business and IT stakeholders including C-suite
- Experience in leadership roles focused on managing sales organisations to influence, develop, and achieve objectives within Data, AI, Cloud, or SaaS sales
- Extended Executive relationship network with key customers
- Knowledge of the partner ecosystem to help grow Enterprise strategic territories
- Success implementing strategies for consumption and commitment-based sales revenue models
- Business travel is also required
- Native Dutch and business English language required
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
Benefits
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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
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