Senior Sales Manager

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Sr Sales Manager driving complex B2B sales for First Advantage, a background-screening and workforce-risk solutions company. Building pipelines, winning contracts, and expanding markets.

Responsibilities:

  • Plan, organize and control selling operations to achieve targeted sales turnover with controlled overhead costs
  • Win new contracts through self-generation of leads
  • Manage consultations, business case delivery, proposal/tender preparation and contract negotiation
  • Prospect and self-generate leads across multiple industries and target markets
  • Research and administer an active and relevant sales pipeline
  • Proactively identify new sales and business opportunities
  • Execute marketing and sales plans, tracking and reporting effectiveness
  • Manage toward achieving sales closures monthly, quarterly and annually
  • Interact with senior management audiences, including Chiefs, VP’s and Directors
  • Build internal relationships with colleagues across all regions within the organization
  • Maintain industry and product knowledge to provide clients with insight and expertise
  • Ensure external communications and marketing materials align with company standards
  • Negotiate financial, legal and commercial aspects of contract documents to achieve closure
  • Attend industry trade and consumer events and networking opportunities
  • Complete complex sales with little to no supervision

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Minimum 10+ years highly skilled at sales process of B2B sales consultative rather than transactional selling
  • Experience selling risk management and/or HR related services with an extensive personal network of human resources and/or corporate compliance decision makers
  • Multinational client sales experience desirable
  • Experience managing participation in Client RFP/s, closing complicated deals with long sales cycles
  • Proven track record of taking an existing service/proposition to a new market
  • Experience using CRM tools & business analytics to track and manage leads and pipeline
  • Demonstrates strong understanding of company products/services
  • Excellent B2B negotiation skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Industry and marketing knowledge
  • Exceptional written and oral communication
  • Competence in using a range of IT applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio
  • Travel may be required to meet with prospective clients and generate new leads, pipeline and increase market knowledge