Head of Business Development and Sales at Saab, leading product development and global growth initiatives across international markets. Collaborating with cross - functional teams to ensure robust lead pipelines and customer satisfaction.
About the role
- Proven track record of consistently hitting and exceeding quota
- Responsible for market share and revenue growth by creating new opportunities in territory.
- Experience in high velocity sales and/or high value and/or annual contracts and/or ~30 day sales cycle
- Works with customers to identify challenges and understand their business needs to establish the best solutions that automotiveMastermind can provide
- Responsible for post-sale process to bring newly signed partners from signed agreement to "ready to launch"
- Experience solution selling with a consultative approach creating buy-in for a long-term contract that provides a full package of solutions, not individual items
- Effectively communicates the value proposition of our product through proposals and presentations at dealerships
- Proven experience selling into a challenging customer base
- Understands go to market strategy for current and previous products
- Will represent the company at conferences, trade fairs, and networking events
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Marketing or a related field
- 5+ years of professional work experience in sales in a luxury retail environment. Auto retail experience is strongly preferred but not required
- Significant working experience with CRM tools and reporting
- Thinks quickly, works fast, and embraces change
- Exceptional oral and written skills
- Great at execution: results driven, detail oriented, organized self-starter
- Leads work and operates through others as appropriate
- Applies solutions to issues or problems that occur and takes an end to end view
- Uses judgment to identify and resolve day-to-day problems
- Understands policies and procedures and operates with these
- Communicates with clarity against the work they are leading and ensures that the priorities of others are taken into account
- Establishes meaningful relationships and easily builds strong rapports with clients
- Experience effectively negotiating and upselling
- Proactively solicits feedback, asks questions, and resolves issues in a non-confrontational way
- Ability to perform as part of a larger team
- Looks at long-term strategic objectives while simultaneously prioritizing individual work to ensure timely delivery
- Regularly self-assess with objective evidence and adapts work product to achieve better results
- Vested interest in the company’s success and commitment to team.
Benefits
- Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
- Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
- Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
- Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
- Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
- Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.
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