Strategic Accounts Sales Director
2 Days Old
Job Description
- Fuel Business Growth: Take the lead in identifying, qualifying, and closing complex sales opportunities within strategic accounts. You will develop and execute effective sales strategies to penetrate new accounts, with a focus on greenfield opportunities and building new doors within the top 50 QSR brands.
- Cultivate Relationships & Manage Accounts: Manage a portfolio of strategic accounts, ensuring customer satisfaction and retention. You will build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor and tailoring solutions to meet their needs.
- Travel and Network: Proactively identify opportunities to meet with clients and prospects face-to-face. This will involve significant travel (up to 20%) to client meetings, trade fairs, and exhibitions, sometimes on short notice.
- Forecast and Report: Accurately forecast sales and pipeline activity for your portfolio. You will prepare regular sales reports, presentations, and analyze sales data to identify trends and opportunities that will help shape the go-to-market strategy.
- Product Expertise: Quickly learn the products and become comfortable pitching and demonstrating them autonomously to clients. You will identify opportunities to meet face-to-face, as well as identify exhibitions to attend to generate new leads.
- A Proven Network and Experience: A minimum of 7-10 years of proven commercial sales experience, with a track record of success working with the largest U.S. QSR brands. You must have a dense, existing network within numerous leading QSR brands, and be comfortable closing large, complex deals with big targets.
- Hunger for New Business: A relentless drive to prospect and initiate new conversations, with a strong desire to overachieve on targets. You are excited by the challenge of starting from a limited existing footprint and building a pipeline from the ground up.
- Consultative Selling Skills: Experience selling software and a consultative sales approach with the ability to identify customer pain points and provide strategic insights and recommendations.
- Resilience and Adaptability: A resilient and hard-working attitude, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment. You are a problem-solver who is coachable and manages time efficiently.
- Strong Communication: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to articulate complex solutions, negotiate with stakeholders, and present to clients.
- Willingness to Travel: Comfort with frequent travel, including at short notice, to attend meetings and industry events.
- Nice to Have: Experience with CRM platforms (e.g., Hubspot) and ticketing systems (e.g., Zendesk). Experience in or strong understanding of the hospitality, food tech, or POS systems landscape.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
- Location:
- Atlanta
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Business
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