Director of Software Solutions creating sales strategies and enhancing software offerings at Border States. Leading teams, managing key relationships, and driving digital transformation efforts.
Responsibilities
Builds and brands the software solutions business for the organization, ensuring business proposition and strategy differentiates Border States from other software solutions business in the marketplace.
Selects and leads the System Integrators that are partners in software solutions business, including defining and aligning all parties to the selection process.
Works to gain and maintain a complete understanding of a customer’s industry; understand changes, issues, opportunities and key success factors to ensure we provide value-added services that differentiate Border States from competitors.
Oversees the development, execution, and compliance of co-managed objectives of software reseller appointments.
Manages the sale of the software, hardware installation of each solution, and coordination with the overall company to ensure success and customer satisfaction.
Responsible for the management of all customer contracts, ensuring adherence to company policy.
Supports defining and articulating the vision, mission, and long-term strategic roadmap for business unit.
Identifies and prioritizes target industries, customer segments, and solutions verticals aligned to market demand and offerings.
Establishes market analysis needs to assess competitive landscape, whitespace opportunities, technology trends, and customer digital maturity levels.
Develops and executes market entry and expansion strategies to ensure scalable and sustainable growth.
Establishes services and solutions portfolio structure, including but not limited to customers and system integrators.
Understands how industry changes and challenges manifest within the market.
Collaborates with company leadership and uses industry knowledge to develop and execute a sales and go-to market strategy to improve customer outcomes and business results.
Rallies and navigates the sales force; increasing adoption and understanding of the software strategy to improve results and differentiate Border States.
Achieve sales growth goals for assigned product categories and segments.
Directly responsible for the growth of gross profit, gross margin % and market share within assigned area.
Identifies, monitors, and communicates key performance metrics to the organization.
Develops, manages performance to, and ensures accountability of a forecast for their business.
Owns the operational and financial performance of the Software Solutions business unit, including forecasting development, expense management, and alignment of resources across integrated teams to achieve strategic and financial objectives.
Recruits, develops, aligns, and leads the team responsible for successful execution of the strategic sales plan.
Approves incentive compensation, base pay and quota levels for direct reports to ensure compliance with forecast results.
Defines and supports training programs allowing staff to achieve their full potential and support company objectives.
Develops executive level relationships with the top customers, strategic vendor partners, technology partners, and integrated suppliers.
Monitors customer, market, and competitive activity and provides feedback to company leadership team and other regional team members.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, marketing, or related discipline preferred, or equivalent, relevant work experience.
5-10 years of proven sales leadership in the software business space with specific experience in software sales in the manufacturing and end user space.
5-10 years of experience successfully implementing and working with System Integrators.
Previous leadership experience required.
Leverages enterprise systems, data, and analytics to inform strategic decisions and drive business performance.
Strong working knowledge in Microsoft Office and SAP.
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