Workday Regional Sales Director. Remote/Home based position.
Full time, permanent position.
Skillsearch are working with a market leading Workday Partner to find an experienced Regional Sales Director (Workday).
We’re a creative, committed, and diverse group of individuals who succeed as a team.
Our vision is to create a world-class business development and marketing capability, fuelled by a diverse range of highly talented and motivated professionals working collaboratively and innovatively to ensure we continue our growth trajectory.
We do this via an open and supportive environment where colleagues can share information, learn from one another and excel in their own career. With consistent ways of working aligned to industry best practice, we build sustainable and predictable sales pipelines for our market-leading offerings.
As a Workday Regional Sales Director, you will be responsible for helping achieve the vision of helping our customers tackle their most challenging projects and reimagining how organisations operate in the digital age.
You will achieve this by driving new business growth within the region, delivering the business development strategy, achieving set targets, and building a team recognised as the best in the sector.
Most importantly, you will lead a team with intelligence, energy and compassion, creating an open and supportive environment where the team will thrive, share information, learn from one another, and excel in their careers.
You will build and maintain a rich pipeline of opportunities across your region, enabling you to forecast accurately for future quarters, achieve agreed-upon sales targets, and maintain predictability of future revenue.
Providing Business Development Leadership - You’ll manage, coach, and develop a small number of staff, focusing on pipeline management, CRM Hygiene, and forecast accuracy. You'll also manage employee performance and assist in their career development.
Pipeline Generation - utilising best industry practices and processes, you will develop sector/region-specific prospect and account plans and lead pursuit teams (where applicable) to develop pipelines and deliver revenue.
Putting deals together – these deals will need to meet sales, revenue, and profitability objectives and ensure that the work contracted is compatible with our strategy and goals.
Building and developing strategic partnerships— You will build and maintain successful partnerships with other businesses in our ecosystem to position us as a trusted go-to partner and continually add value.
Experience in delivering and/or selling digital services of scale and complexity (£multi-million) for at least five years in a previous role
Proven track record of exceeding targets, opening new markets, and maximising growth opportunities that align with strategic goals
Expert in the business development process and deal commercials, including constructing complex commercial offers, with a demonstrated ability to:
Create business development strategies and account plans that ensure success in winning £ multi-million deals, recognising that such a campaign may need to be built up over an extended period and deliver against quarterly and annual targets
Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of the organisation, including executive and C-level
A demonstrated ability in managing, mentoring and coaching a sales team and wider
Excellent negotiation skills, both from a commercial and contract perspective, as well as resolving escalations and diffusing issues
Expert networking skills and the ability to build strong and appropriate relationships with senior stakeholders
ERP Industry knowledge, s pecifically Workday, is highly desirable.
We have majored in this space for close to 30 years and are proud to be a certified Workday Staffing Partner.