Avp Cloud

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Sales

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The AVP will lead the Core Cloud sales (Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud and Service Cloud) organisation for Germany.

This leader will create an organisation recognised for high-growth, long-term sustainable success and its commitment to Salesforce values: Trust, Customer Success, Innovation & Equality

**Key outcomes for the new leader**
- Build a world-class high performing team recognised as a talent destination
- Be a key interface with the industry sales organisation offering critical specialist sales skills, go to market and alignment of product sales aligned to customer solutions
- Build a business that executes against culture, cadence and detail
- Understanding of how the pandemic has changed the business world; the willingness to anticipate & to respond quickly to rapidly evolving market demand
- Maintain and improve the Year-on-year growth of the business.
- Build an organisation recognised for its ability to embody the Salesforce #Ohana culture and values + achieve results (growth).
- Take the strategic + enterprise accounts organisation to the next level.
- Ensure the framework is in place in the sales organisation to support and drive continued high retention of Salesforce customers.

**Core Responsibilities**
- The AVP is responsible for setting and executing Salesforce’s Cloud sales strategy. This executive will assume leadership of a growing sales organization, including Regional Vice Presidents and Account Executives, to help drive complex deal transactions.
- Become a figurehead for this business to transform it to ensure the highest levels of customer engagement
- Demonstrate a deep comprehension of the process of planning including how to align resources, teams and functions to maximise the opportunity by product and industry
- Position the business to grow successfully beyond its current targets, increasing the revenue of the business significantly year on year.
- Excellent operational/analytical skills - cadence. reporting, forecasting, and operations management experience.
- Operating in a high-growth environment, this will be achieved by:

- Defining a clear and compelling vision and setting priorities.
- Translating business objectives into specific goals for the given area.
- Strong track record of recruiting, developing and retaining a high performing sales organisation
- A leader with a proven track record in building a complex, matrixed sales organisation recognised for its culture, as well as it's results.
- Day-to-day, driving and managing a sales business with a strong cadence of deal closure on a monthly and quarterly basis; track record of consistent over-achievement of quota and revenue goals.
- Strategic sales experience and revenue achievement selling multiple enterprise software offerings, while building satisfied, loyal and referenceable customers.
- Consultative sales skills and ability to construct and articulate strong business case and ROI, strategic account planning and execution skills.
- Excellent operational/analytical skills - reporting, forecasting, data analysis skills; operations management experience.
- C-level engagement and negotiation, account strategy, domain expertise, executive selling, large deal management and team leadership.

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