Sales Manager

  B2B Sales Manager Job Description  Build, motivate and mentor a high functioning inside sales team to lead and drive sales conversations (team size of 10 sales specialists)  Lead team members through example. Lead and coach team members through strong call coaching of their customer sales calls. Coach sellers and ensure every seller meets productivity targets monthly. Document coaching outcome and agreed next actions. Accurately assess risk and identify exceptional performance plans in weekly reviews with senior management and with the agents  Drive operational excellence of key center metrics such as pulling leads, conversion rate, pipeline, velocity and accuracy.  Empower your teams to spend more time with customers and partners by removing productivity blockers & unnecessary rhythms.  Spend time learning your team’s capabilities & actively build talent pipelines  Ability to design and set productivity and sales targets/quota in line with market trends and program requirements  Ability to work as part of a team – work in partnership with Quality coach and/or Readiness Managers to improve agent performance  Skills Needed  4+ years of technology related sales or business development experience  4+ years of sales management, experience in IT industry with proven track record of successfully leading teams of 8 or more. Familiarity with modern B2B sales techniques and tools preferred  Strong interpersonal skills, excellent written and verbal communications skills - ability to coach team to successfully drive sales over phone, email, video and modern demonstration tools  Superior leadership skills with the ability to enable high performers to deliver and motivate under-performers to improve  Experience, background and confidence to initiate and drive business strategy discussions with C-level executives and business decision makers around industry drivers and workloads  Ability to identify the key aspects of a potential opportunity, nurture the opportunity to close, engage channel partners as needed and manage the customer relationship through success.  General knowledge of the IT industry and cloud technologies, with the capacity to learn and retain knowledge about individual systems, processes, products and services quickly and accurately. Works well in a diverse team and enjoys a dynamic and changing environment.  Achievement and success-driven personality, motivated by performance rewards for exceeding annual sales goals through strategic sales leadership and strong cross business collaboration  Advanced user of Microsoft Office Suite applications, Windows OS, 4+ years of experience using a CRM tool (Dynamics, SalesForce or other) is required.  Language requirements (written + verbal): English and supported market language fluency is required.  Bachelor's Degree or Associate’s degree in computer sciences preferred MS-900 Certification preferred