Senior Manager, Strategics Sales

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Are you driven, high-reaching, and thrive in a collaborative environment? If so, Cohesity is looking for you! We are seeking a Senior District Manager, who will have the unique opportunity to build and be responsible for an experienced sales team in a whitespace patch. This role will be responsible for developing and implementing Cohesity's sophisticated territory strategy, ensuring goals, objectives, and quotas are met by the sales teams. We are looking for someone with outstanding leadership skills, to be pivotal in recruiting and leading the direct sales management team, who will, in turn, optimize the recruitment, hiring, development, and performance of the sales team.
HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

• Build and manage an experienced sales team
• Build Cohesity's territory strategy to ensure both short and long term goals, objectives and quotas for the sales reps
• Recruit, lead & develop the sales team
• Maintain good balance between managing a team and customer interfacing calls
• Works closely with their extended sales team (including SE Manager, PSO Manager, Inside Sales Manager, Channel Manager, Recruiting, etc.) to generate new business opportunities

WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making
• 7+ years of sales management experience of 6 or more direct sales manager reports in a fast paced, highly competitive, ever-changing sales environment
• Experience in leading team quota with demonstrated achievement
• Shown ability to lead a horizontal, extended resource team to support the direct sales team
• Extensive experience directly and indirectly through a negotiating large 7 figure deals with very sophisticated terms, conditions, price pressures and considerations
• Consistent record working directly and indirectly through a management team with OEMs to build strategic and cooperative sales campaigns together
• History of direct and indirect coordination with an internal set of multifunctional teams such as Systems Engineers, Inside Reps, Field Marketing, Professional
• Services, and Channel Management to ensure target quotas as achieved and exceeded Strengths
• Self-starter who takes initiative and works with limited direction
• Highly trusted individual who maintains and expects high standards for self and team
• BA/BS degree or higher
• Ability to travel 50%+ of the time

The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.

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