Our CCH Tagetik office is based in Dubai Healthcare City.
We are looking for a General Manager to lead the Enterprise Corporate Performance Management business within the MEA region. The General Manager will progressively lead a distributed team of experienced sales professionals that have responsibility for new sales of high-growth software solutions. Specifically, this role is responsible for driving growth and meeting/beating financial objectives, delivering Corporate Performance to prospective and current customers. Will be responsible and accountable for building an effective sales deployment strategy, executing, and achieving annual sales targets/quotas, and leading/building a high performing team.
Our General Manager is expected to have a deep knowledge of the CPM/EPM market and be able to "talk-the-talk" with large, complex, multi-billion-dollar organizations. At CCH Tagetik, one of our many differentiators is finance domain expertise and that starts with our Sales.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design, implement, and drive an effective sales organization (talent and processes) to execute against annual sales quotas, as well as deliver excellent prospective and current customer experiences.
- Create a partner network to speed up the market penetration in MEA.
- Travel and meet with prospective and current customers to provide leadership, industry, and company expertise to instill confidence and drive strategic sales results.
- Lead by example through sales coaching, mentoring, and sales skill development of the sales organization.
- Credible industry and functional expert, with strategic and analytical capabilities helping to establish best sales strategies & methodologies to accomplish annual and long-term goals.
- Develop strategies and tactics for increasing market share within existing accounts and markets, while expanding into new accounts and markets.
- Seek continuous improvement in staff capabilities and provide ongoing coaching and development opportunities for sales reps and managers.
- Run daily and weekly activities, pipelines, forecasts, and closing deals to ensure above-quota results based on successful pipeline management.
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Experience:
- 10+ years of enterprise software sales leadership experience, successfully selling solutions at the C-level.
- Experience managing a high performing multi-product sales organization selling to the Office of the CFO and/or enterprise corporate segments preferred.
- Advanced sales pipeline and forecasting ability.
- Experience in territory management and planning, at the regional and account level.
- Demonstrated hands-on leadership skills driving daily activity (and prescribing correlated processes and KPI’s) required to deliver monthly quota commitments.
- Metrics driven; highly disciplined process orientation.
- Ability to operate at both a strategic/conceptual level and at a detailed, operational level.
- Outstanding communication, presentation, networking, and organizational skills.
- Proven ability to perform in a consultative, collaborative manner and engender trust and cooperation from colleagues and stakeholders in a highly matrixed environment.
- Engaging leadership style that builds and sustains credibility with staff, colleagues, clients and other stakeholders.
- Significant experience with Salesforce.com.
Preferred Experience:
- Success in leading sales organizations in Corporate Performance Management software and/or ERP.
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college/university (Business, Accounting, Finance preferred) OR equivalent relevant experience.
Travel:
50%+ within the MEA region.