
RVP, Sales – Higher Education
Salesforce
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Colorado • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $208,150 - $278,450 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- managing and developing a team of Account Executives
- participate and lead in client and prospect meetings
- work cross-functionally with internal partners and corporate resources
- responsible for ongoing mentoring and development of the sales team
- report on sales activity and forecast to senior sales management
- responsible for setting and implementing the Salesforce mutual Go-to-market sales strategy for the Customer 360 product family
- lead, build and grow a sales organization for this product family in the Enterprise Higher Education (Central US) segment
- provide support and mentorship to direct reports
Requirements
- 2+ years experience in Sales Leadership
- 10+ years in software and/or applications sales; ideally an IT centric solution/application software, selling primarily to the CxO level (ideally CIO)
- Recent experience with the Enterprise customer segment
- Experience selling to customers in the Public Sector, ideally Higher Education vertical
- Strong track record of success in leading complex top account teams within a high-growth, matrixed environment.
- Consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals.
- Strong track record of recruiting, developing, coaching and retaining a high performing sales organization
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills to drive collaboration across multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent presentation and executive engagement skills
- Excellent negotiation skills
Benefits
- time off programs
- medical
- dental
- vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Sales LeadershipSalesforceGo-to-market strategySales forecastingAccount managementRevenue generationQuota achievementCoachingMentorshipSales organization development
Soft Skills
Team managementCross-functional collaborationPresentation skillsExecutive engagementNegotiation skillsCoachingMentoringCommunicationLeadershipRelationship building