Portfolio Director Germany, Enterprise Sales
The successful candidate is responsible for building and leading a team of experienced account managers, and other professionals in support of WeWork’s enterprise revenue strategy and targets.
This is a unique opportunity to build the structure and pipeline of an untapped enterprise market who are looking to address the evolving needs of their employee culture and real estate footprint.
The successful candidate should have a proven track record of consultative sales and complex contract negotiations; experience building and leading enterprise sales teams; the ability to articulate WeWork’s strategy and vision to a variety of audiences; and a willingness to embrace disruptive, fast-paced technology companies.
Responsibilities:
- Develop the Enterprise strategy and grow Enterprise membership of Fortune 1000 companies, while continuing to support the WeWork brand and community.
- Build and motivate an Enterprise Sales team in support of the strategic plan. Assist and coach team members in all phases of the selling process to achieve agreed-upon targets and performance metrics.
- Provide strong leadership, mentorship, vision and direction.
- Ensure operational excellence in the day-to-day management of the business including forecasting, pipeline development, training, hiring, performance management and team collaboration.
- Develop and implement best practices to maximize pipeline creation, conversion rates, forecasting accuracy, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Work with various internal teams to drive Enterprise member satisfaction to ensure opportunities for additional business growth.
- Collaborate with our Physical Product group to provide input on layout, design, and construction of spaces that are optimized for Enterprise members.
- Support direct reports by participating in and leading prospect meetings and engaging other corporate resources as required to close large and complex deals.
- Assist and close complex, multi-million dollar transactions.
- Serve as leadership sponsor to large Enterprise accounts and help drive key executive relationships.
- Offer strong thought leadership within the global sales team and marketing team.
- Understand target companies’ business needs, develop proposals and accurately articulate WeWork’s value proposition at the executive level.
- Maintain a high level of knowledge of the WeWork offerings while staying current in understanding the competitive landscape and industry trends.
Qualifications:
- Extensive sales and enterprise sales management experience, with a history of overachieving targets in a market-leading business-to-business sales organization.
- Proven success scaling out an Enterprise Sales team and consultative sales success in establishing effective relationships with key decision-makers.
- Demonstrated ability to continuously increase the effectiveness of team, recognizing opportunities for creating new systems, structures, and processes.
- Strong knowledge of Salesforce reporting and dashboards, and highly focused on numbers and process.
- Proven track record working in a high-growth, fast paced environment
- Strong executive presence - experience and comfort level working with C-level and executives