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Enterprise Open Source Sales Director at Canonical

CanonicalLagos, Nigeria Digital Marketing
Full Time
We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'​. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.

What your day will look like:

  • Build and execute a territory plan to prioritize outreach and prospecting
  • Allocate portions of territory and accounts to sales representatives on your team
  • Identify and prioritise new logo accounts in your territory for account-based marketing and prospecting
  • Ensure that sales representatives have high quality account plans for existing accounts and priority prospects
  • Monitor new pipeline development by your team, through outreach, prospecting, local marketing, and industry events
  • Support contract closure to meet and exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets
  • Be mindful and proactive in achieving tactical and strategic objectives
  • Work with customer success to identify growth opportunities
  • Ensure your team maintain accurate pipeline data and forecasts within Salesforce
  • Represent the company, its solutions and software

What we are looking for in you:

  • Bachelor's level Degree, preferably in Engineering or Computer Science
  • Leadership and management skill
  • Experience of open source technology and solutions
  • Detail oriented with effective planning, organisation and reporting skill
  • Experience in enterprise software or technology sales planning and execution
  • Track record of achievement in sales targets and new account wins
  • Self-discipline and motivation to be successful in a distributed team
  • Professional written and spoken English, as well as any language that may be appropriate for your target market
  • Ability to travel for customer engagements, industry events and company events

Additional skills of interest:

  • Specific vertical experience, in particular finance, telco, health, energy, public sector, tech
  • Experience speaking at conferences or industry events

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