The Principal Consultant plays a critical leadership role in driving client impact, revenue growth, and strategic transformation for sales organizations.
This position is responsible for working with sales and client success to grow Sandler’s consulting practice while also leading complex consulting engagements focused on sales effectiveness, revenue growth strategy, go-to-market transformation, and commercial performance improvement for enterprise clients.
The Principal Consultant will act as a trusted advisor to senior executives, helping them solve their most pressing go-to-market challenges by combining data-driven insights with proven best practices.
This role requires expertise in sales strategy, strong business acumen, and the ability to influence executive stakeholders while leading high-performing consulting teams.
Responsibilities: Lead consulting engagements focused on revenue growth, sales strategy, and organizational transformation.
Serve as a strategic advisor to client executives, aligning solutions to their business objectives and driving measurable outcomes.
Develop actionable insights from diagnostic assessments, benchmark analyses, and best practice frameworks.
Facilitate executive workshops, design sessions, and board-level presentations to drive alignment on strategy and execution plans.
Maintain overall accountability for project success, client satisfaction, and achievement of engagement objectives.
Partner with enterprise sales and client success to expand client relationships and grow existing accounts.
Drive proposal development and executive presentations to secure new engagements.
Contribute to the firm’s intellectual capital by developing frameworks, methodologies, and benchmarks that enhance client delivery.
Core and Position Specific Competencies: Executive presence with the ability to influence C-suite stakeholders and drive alignment on strategic initiatives.
Exceptional business acumen and analytical thinking to identify drivers of revenue performance and operational efficiency.
Expertise in sales effectiveness, territory design, incentive compensation, account segmentation, and go-to-market optimization.
Ability to design and deliver compelling value propositions for solutions and services.
Strong leadership skills, with proven success in building and managing high-impact consulting teams.
Self-driven, results-oriented, and comfortable navigating complex, ambiguous client challenges.
Exceptional facilitation, presentation, and communication skills.
Requirements
Executive presence with the ability to influence C-suite stakeholders and drive alignment on strategic initiatives.
Exceptional business acumen and analytical thinking to identify drivers of revenue performance and operational efficiency.
Expertise in sales effectiveness, territory design, incentive compensation, account segmentation, and go-to-market optimization.
Ability to design and deliver compelling value propositions for solutions and services.
Strong leadership skills, with proven success in building and managing high-impact consulting teams.
Self-driven, results-oriented, and comfortable navigating complex, ambiguous client challenges.
Exceptional facilitation, presentation, and communication skills.