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Job Overview and Purpose
The purpose of this role is to build, inspire and lead a dynamic sales team to achieve sales targets, delivering revenue growth and increased market share across the EMEA region.
Key Objectives & Accountabilities
- Maximize sales of Pearson technology solutions in the Medium Enterprise space.
- Recruit, coach, lead, and develop a team of new and existing technology salespeople across EMEA to deliver outstanding results.
- Build a high-quality enterprise sales pipeline through outbound sales development.
- Develop and execute strategic and operational plans in collaboration with key Pearson Go-To-Market stakeholders, including Marketing, Product, Customer Success, Professional Services, Presales, Revenue Operations, Finance, Legal, and Enablement.
- Demonstrate best practices and lead by example in all key competency areas.
- Deliver effective performance monitoring and management to maximize engagement, achievement, and retention within assigned sales representatives.
- Deliver world-class business management through forecasting and analytics across a rolling 12-month future window.
- Co-innovate and collaborate with a wide range of Pearson commercial stakeholders to deliver unique and innovative solutions to Pearson customers and prospects.
- Develop quality relations with C-suite contacts to deliver long-term customer value.
Skills & Competencies
- A natural sales leader who is rational, assertive, determined, charismatic, and confident, capable of persuading customers and articulating business needs to management.
- Excellent coaching and people management skills.
- Ability to apply Situational Leadership principles to maximize salesperson effectiveness within complex B2B sales cycles.
- Strong analytical skills, including historical sales analysis, pricing, and forecasting.
- Strategic thinking with the ability to develop innovative multi-level strategies to build medium-long term business pipelines.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to operate in a matrix-reporting environment.
- Able to operate effectively alone and work through challenges independently, as well as part of a multi-country and multi-function wider team.
- Able to work as part of a cross-functional matrix structure in a global environment.
- Excellent spoken and written command of English (and French, preferably)
Job reference no: 17013
Location: London , UK,
Mode: Hybrid
Diversity and Inclusion
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