Wolters Kluwer (AEX: WKL) enables finance, legal, tax, and healthcare professionals to be more effective and efficient. We provide information, software, and services that deliver vital insights, intelligent tools, and the guidance of subject-matter experts. With over 180 years’ experience in the markets we serve, Wolters Kluwer is lifting the standard in software, knowledge, tools and education.
https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en-sg/solutions/cch-tagetik/
What we offer:
• Hybrid Work Model
• Flexible Working Arrangement
• Career & Learning Opportunities
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Diversified Workplace
• Fair Cultural Atmosphere
• Wellness Program
The Associate Director, Sales leads a team of sales professionals that have responsibility for new sales, cross-sell and upsell of high-growth software solutions throughout ASEAN. Specifically, this role is responsible for driving growth and meeting/beating financial objectives delivering Corporate Performance Management solutions to prospective and current customers. Will be responsible and accountable for building an effective territory strategy, sales strategy, executing and achieving annual sales targets/quotas, and leading/building a high performing team.
Job Responsibilities:
- Deliver on all strategies and GTM plans for all product lines associated with the business.
- Travel and meet with prospective and current customers to provide leadership, industry, and company expertise to instill confidence and drive strategic sales results.
- Leads by example through sales coaching, mentoring, and sales skill development of the sales team.
- Credible industry and functional expert, with strategic and analytical capabilities helping to establish best sales strategies & methodologies to accomplish annual and long-term goals.
- Collaborate effectively across the business unit, division and overall organization working with the functional leaders (ex. Sales Ops, Marketing, Finance, HR, etc.) to build a cohesive sales strategy which meets the demands for today as well as creates capacity for the future.
- Develops strategies and tactics for increasing market share within existing accounts and markets, while expanding into new accounts and markets
- Implements a cohesive demand generation strategy, within sales and insides sales, and execution within ASEAN market to drive increased market share.
- Build strong relationships with partners to leverage their networks for lead generation and business development. Collaborate with partners to co-develop joint marketing initiatives, sales campaigns, and events aimed at increasing pipeline opportunities.
- Work closely with partners during the sales cycle to ensure alignment on value propositions, pricing, and customer needs, leading to joint success in closing large enterprise deals.
- Gain visibility and drive sales KPIs and demand generation leading indicators to ensure path to quota achievement.
- Responsible to lead ASEAN region in Q+1 reviews, QBRs and key deal reviews
- Accurately forecasts anticipated new sales, accounts, and profitability for on-premise and cloud-based software products and services
- Establishes clear sales metrics and benchmarks for measuring progress and maintaining focus
- Seeks continuous improvement in staff capabilities and provides ongoing coaching and development opportunities for sales reps.
- Collaborates with product management and marketing to provide insights on unmet needs of the market.
- Works closely with all other departments to leverage the total capabilities of the company in creating a winning go-to-market strategy and drives flawless sales execution.
Job Qualifications:
- Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience required
- 14+ years of experience and a proven track record in subscription cloud-based enterprise software sales management.
- Experience managing a high performing multi-product sales team selling to the Office of the CFO and/or enterprise corporate segments preferred.
- Success in leading sales organizations in ERP and/or other enterprise channel environments preferred.
Knowledge of any of the following CPM Applications preferred:
- CCH Tagetik
- Oracle: Hyperion (Financial Management/ HFM, Planning, Essbase), FCCS, PBCS
- SAP: SAP BPC, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
- IBM: IBM Planning Analytics (Cognos TM1), IBM Cognos Controller
- Others: OneStream, Anaplan, Adaptive Insights, Board, Jedox or other CPM & BI solutions
Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Takes initiative to drive sales in Singapore & Malaysia
- Advanced sales pipeline and forecasting ability
- Ability to coach sales reps on both demand generation and sales skills
- Demonstrated hands-on leadership skills driving daily activity (and prescribing correlated processes and KPI’s) required to deliver monthly quota commitments.
- Metrics driven; highly disciplined process orientation.
- Ability to operate at both a strategic/conceptual level and at a detailed, operational level.
- Outstanding communication, presentation, networking, and organizational skills
- Proven ability to perform in a consultative, collaborative manner and engender trust and cooperation from colleagues and stakeholders in a highly matrixed environment.
- Expertise in navigating complex contract negotiations, pricing strategies, and terms of service in a way that balances customer needs and company objectives.
- Engaging leadership style that builds and sustains credibility with staff, colleagues, clients and other stakeholders.
- Significant experience with Salesforce.com
