Take the lead in driving regional growth across data protection, business continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience solutions in the public sector. This remote leadership opportunity is designed for an experienced sales professional who combines strategic vision with hands-on team development and enterprise selling expertise. You will lead and coach a high-performing team of specialist account executives while driving revenue growth across State, Local, Education (SLED), and Federal government markets. Working closely with enterprise customers, channel partners, and cross-functional teams, you will develop strategic sales initiatives and advance complex opportunities from pipeline development through closing. Your leadership will help organizations strengthen their data security, operational resilience, and hybrid cloud environments. This position offers significant earning potential, broad regional responsibility, and the opportunity to shape sales performance in a competitive technology landscape.
Regional sales strategy and revenue growth: Own quarterly and annual sales targets for the data protection and cyber resilience portfolio, developing regional strategies focused on new customer acquisition, account expansion, and customer retention.
Sales pipeline management: Maintain detailed visibility into individual territories, pipeline development, deal progression, and key performance indicators to improve forecasting accuracy, conversion rates, and overall sales effectiveness.
Team leadership and development: Recruit, lead, coach, and retain a high-performing team of specialist account executives. Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, quarterly business reviews, and strategic deal reviews to strengthen execution and accountability.
Strategic account engagement: Travel alongside team members to develop relationships with key government and enterprise accounts, support complex sales opportunities, and help secure successful deal outcomes.
Enterprise negotiations and deal execution: Provide strategic guidance on large proposals, negotiations, and complex sales cycles, ensuring that technical capabilities, operational benefits, financial value, and business outcomes are clearly communicated to customers.
Sales forecasting and reporting: Deliver accurate, data-driven quarterly forecasts and maintain reliable pipeline and opportunity information within Salesforce. Monitor business performance and implement corrective actions when necessary.
Sales program execution: Oversee strategic and tactical sales initiatives designed to accelerate growth across key product lines, solution areas, and public sector market segments.
Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with internal sales, technical, product, marketing, and operational teams to coordinate resources, strengthen customer engagement, and maximize the effectiveness of the broader organization.
Channel and alliance development: Build and maintain strong relationships with value-added resellers, distributors, managed service providers, and strategic alliance partners to expand market reach and generate new business opportunities.
Customer value creation: Position data protection and cyber resilience solutions in the context of customers' broader technology strategies, including hybrid cloud infrastructure, business continuity, disaster recovery, and cybersecurity priorities.
Sales methodology and execution excellence: Apply structured, value-based selling practices to qualify opportunities, navigate complex procurement processes, manage stakeholder relationships, and improve sales outcomes.
Performance accountability: Establish clear goals, track individual and regional performance, and foster a culture of collaboration, energy, continuous improvement, and consistent quota achievement.