Area Vice President - High-Tech, Mfg, Communications, Energy - Eastern Us

at Teradata in Boise, Idaho, United States

What You'll Do

The Area Vice President (AVP) reports to the US Industry Vice President - High-Tech, Manufacturing, Communications, and Energy. The AVP is responsible for attainment of revenue objectives, growth targets, services sales targets, and gross margin goals within the assigned area or territory. The AVP partners closely with the Industry leadership team, leads a customer facing sales organization, and has matrix management responsibility for cross functional sales, services and support resources aligned with annual and long-term strategies to retain, develop, and grow Teradata's customers and prospects. The AVP will also develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with our Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, Finance and Services teams in support of tight alignment between our customers and our extended teams. The AVP provides domain expertise and thought leadership to the customer sales teams and helps to articulate and deploy business strategies throughout the Industry teams. The AVP develops business plans and GTM optimization strategies for coverage and team alignment priorities within their assigned Area. The AVP provides direct support and guidance to the organization as it relates to aligning sales support and resources (people, tools, methodologies and processes). Forecasting accuracy and pipeline management as well as accountability for associated performance metrics are critical elements of achieving and reporting on revenue and growth components of the role. Deals Desk interaction and complex deals structure support, (coaching and expertise) should be core competencies and are an integral component and qualification for the role.

Areas of Focus

Sales Leadership:

The ability to motivate and empower a sales team to achieve a common goal. This includes providing a shared vision, modeling the way, and challenging the status quo to champion new initiatives. This competency involves providing clear direction, championing change, influencing others, and creating an environment that fosters professional and personal success. This involves driving new customer footprints through solution-led sales, developing local relationships with Partners to expand our coverage of territories and/or solution portfolio and building a sustainable Professional Services Consulting business.

Sales Coaching and Development:

The ability to individually coach, mentor and develop sales associates to enhance their performance. This includes coaching both sales skills and selling strategy. This also includes evaluating performance and providing individual mentoring and development plans. This involves providing strong leadership in sales engagements, ensuring account executives are accountable for establishing winning sales strategies, shared expectations with Key Decision makers and executing sales engagements.

Managing Sales and Business Results:

The ability to effectively manage order/revenue generation and business profitability while meeting strategic business objectives. This includes territory design, pipeline management, forecasting, resource planning, asset management, pricing decisions and expense control. It also includes an understanding of the meaning and implications of key financial levers that impact overall business performance. This includes but is not limited to the following:

+ Set, direct, or review and revise to assure teams execute winning sales strategies

+ Drive execution of Land, Adopt, Expand and Renew efforts in pursuit of accounts/business and growth

+ Assign territories and accounts to Account Executives

+ Manage the sales funnel and the line of sight

+ Accurately forecast business results/outlook

+ Manage budget and expense control

Key Responsibilities:

+ Leads the Sales organization consisting of Account Executives and aligned Solution Engineers and supporting organizations in Consulting Services, Advanced Analytics and Customer Success.

+ Develops and builds the Sales business plan for the area providing focus in the development of capabilities, including recruiting, investment decisions, pricing, and coaching others in professional development.

+ Manages, fosters and grows relationships at the executive level with high visibility, key clients across all industry sub-segments.

+ Develops and evolves strategies and offerings that are relevant to Teradata customers and steers the sales campaign to anticipate or respond to changes in business conditions.

+ Develops long-term strategic relationships with key customers, industry partners, and external organizations.

+ Facilitates a work environment that enables the recruitment, development and retention of top talent as a means to drive revenue growth and increased profitability.

Who You'll Work With

+ This position will work in a virtual office environment, including home office, TD offices when/ where available & customer sites. The Territory includes named and strategic accounts as well as mid tier, commercial accounts or prospects across High-Tech, Manufacturing, Communications, and Energy segments. A combination of independent work and team collaboration will be required.

+ Routinely interface with Sales and Consulting Services Leadership Team (e.g., Account Directors, peer AVPs, Consulting Services Managing Partners, Analytics Sellers, Solution Center Director/Consultants, Pricing and Americas Executives).

+ Partner with Human Resources, Learning, Marketing/Communications, and Finance & Accounting Managers/Consultants.

+ Ability to work and lead in direct and matrix team environments is essential.

+ Strong interpersonal relationship skills are required to gain common ground with customers, fellow team members, and internal partners.

+ Ability to coordinate all necessary internal resources is critical.

What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

A successful candidate should be a strategic thinker, self-starter who is creative and driven. The candidate must have the ability to lead, advise and advocate for customers. The desired candidate should be innovative and skilled at seizing opportunities and transforming strategy into results.

+ BS, MBA, or MS in business, technical or professional discipline or equivalent work experience. Highly seasoned professional with significant experience leading multi-functional teams.

+ Minimum of ten years of general management / leadership experience and, ideally, similar tenure of sales management experience (training/development/performance management of sales/consulting team).

+ Minimum of 5 years of hands-on, major account, goal ownership experience.

+ Minimum of five years as an (or working closely with) internal or external consultant with broad exposure and experience in a variety of circumstances

+ Must be able to travel to meet customer requirements.

What You'll Bring

+ Must be results oriented and a "self-starter" who can function and thrive in an environment characterized by transformative change, flexibility, and business agility.

+ Proven to lead by example with ability to close sales, deal with challenging customer situations, and assist in driving growth through increased consumption from new analytics workloads.

+ Must be able to travel to and meet with customers across the area and maintain a presence and competence with C suite and other executive engagement opportunities.

+ Requires a sense of urgency, attention to detail and commitment to excellence.

+ Creative thinking "outside the box" and a "can do" attitude is necessary.

+ Understanding of industry business challenges customers experience and how data and analytics can solve those challenges.

+ Hands-on management experience in a number of disciplines such as software developme