Regional Sales Director - UK in London

Description

Gigamon, recently certified as a Great Place to Work, helps the world’s leading organizations run fast, stay secure, and innovate. We provide the industry’s first elastic visibility and analytics fabric, which closes the cloud visibility gap by enabling cloud tools to see the network and network tools to see the cloud. With visibility across their hybrid cloud network, organizations can improve customer experience, eliminate security blind spots, and reduce cost and complexity. Gigamon has been awarded over 90 technology patents and enjoys world-class customer satisfaction with over 4,000 organizations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide. Gigamon seeks a motivated individual to fill the position of Regional Sales Director for our UK region. As a direct sales position, you will identify, qualify and capture tactical sales opportunities that will align Gigamon strategically. In this role, you will also command and manage all the moving parts through the full life cycle to closure. We are searching for an entrepreneurial self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, completing multiple complex tasks simultaneously, who can use his or her direct sales talent to expand adoption of Gigamon capabilities. Duties also include development of business strategies and solutions for complex and multi-faceted customer problems, and internally provide advice to support the overall growth strategy for driving Gigamon’s business activities in the UK region.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Advanced level of specialized knowledge, with record of sales success; expert in the field

Responsible for the sales of company’s products within an assigned geographic territory and within an assigned group of named accounts within the region. Achieves sales budget by the growth of existing accounts and the development of new accounts

Maintains database of customers. Enters interactions with customers in SalesForce database

Uses available resources to develop effective sales calls. These resources include opportunities identified by previous sales calls, invoices, Tech Service cases, webinar attendees and sample requests 

Sells new and existing products, discovers new opportunities, and secures incremental business

Explores, identifies, and communicates potential opportunities with the Regional Business Managers and Product Managers

Consistently performs effective sales calls throughout the assigned territory and closes new business opportunities

Attends trade and vendor shows and meetings as required

Provides timely communication and follow-up to customers, consistently meets the customers’ expectations

Provide pertinent market and competitive information to the organization

In collaboration with Product Managers, develops short and long-range strategies for product expansion; assesses potential application of the company products to meet customer needs and prepares detailed product specifications for the development, implementation, and customization of customer solutions

Collaborates with Product Managers on presentations, product demonstrations, and on-site customer visits

Represents Sales group on cross-functional team interfacing with R&D, production, and manufacturing to develop new products or enhance existing products or product lines

Researches and analyzes the territories and the company’s markets, competition and product mix; makes presentations on new and existing products to current and potential customers

Provides innovative problem-solving approaches to enhance organizational capabilities; uses peer network to expand technical and sales capabilities and identify new sales opportunities

Devises new approaches to problems encountered, shares approach with Regional Business Managers

Uses a wide application of complex principles, theories and concepts in the specific field

Creates opportunities to enhance technical methodology or content through expansion of existing or development of new efforts

Assists in providing training to lower level Sales staff

Other duties as assigned

Education / Experience

10+ years of direct selling experience in the Networking or/and Network Security space.

Track record of success as “rookie of the year”, President’s club, YoY attainment of quota.

Excellent consultative, solution selling skills to all levels within organizations.

Exceptional communication and presentation skills a must.

Reside in region, track record of relationships with local major accounts and channel partners.

Experience with SalesForce. Disciplined around forecasting.

Bachelor's degree in Business, CIS, or related field preferred.

Background in sales engineering, or training in CS, IT, EE a plus

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