District Sales Manager (Great Lakes)
5 days ago
Austin
Job DescriptionDescription: About Salient The company manufactures and markets video surveillance and video management systems. Salient is an innovative entrepreneurial enterprise, having experienced its initial growth in the 2010s during the analog to IP transition of cameras. Salient offers multiple versions of its systems, including a classic on-premise version, a hybrid cloud version, and a camera to cloud solution. This enables an end user to choose the appropriate version to best meet their individual needs. The company’s products are open-architected and encourage best of breed integrations from leading software providers around the world. About the Job The DSM job at Salient provides an opportunity for an individual early in their sales career but with experience in Inside Sales, Business Development, Outside Sales or Sales Support. The DSM will work closely with Resellers, Integrators, Security Consultants, Architects and Engineers, Technology Partners and End Users to drive sales growth and support channel activities in their designated district. This role can be based out of either Detroit, MI metropolitan area, or Indianapolis, IN metropolitan area. Key Attributes, Talents and Characteristics for Success A successful DSM should be money motivated, ambitious, a team player, a hunter, and a closer. Candidates will show strong potential in the following areas: • Having an interest in video surveillance, security, analytics, business intelligence, and technology in general,, • Being self-motivated, self-starting, and self-improving,, • Possessing exceptional skills for presentation and communication,, • Having a mastery of the written word, attention to detail, an ability to speak well, and the ability to explain complex concepts and ideas,, • Being exceptionally organized is a key skill,, • Being able to understand the needs of a partner, a prospect, or a customer, identify specific pain points or wants, and communicate what can be done to help, The DSM’s responsibility is to effectively sell Salient’s products through its channel partners on both an assisted and a leveraged basis, and to maximize sales results. The successful DSM will report to an experienced sales leader overseeing a section of the US market and be part of that sales leader’s team. That leader will mentor and manage the efforts of the DSM to maximize his/her results. The DSM job combines the expansion of business through key existing users combined with a very strong emphasis on new resellers/integrators and especially on new end users. The DSM’s objectives also include maintaining important relationships in the market with security consultants, architects and engineers, and technology partners. Internally, the DSM will maintain direct relationships with his/her Sales Leader, RSMs, Sales Engineer(s), supporting Business Development team members, supporting Inside Sales Representatives, and various other support people throughout the Salient organization. Relationship and Account Management The successful DSM will have the following specific relationship responsibilities: Resellers/Integrators – These organizations are the primary channel for sales, and the DSM is responsible for maintaining strong relationships with resellers/integrators to sell new and existing end users. The successful DSM will recruit the best and most responsive resellers/integrators in their region and will then maintain a steady cadence of communication and general management. The DSM will deliver qualified and developed leads to the resellers/integrators, and engage with integrator/reseller prospects provided to the DSM. Security Consultants, Architects and Engineers - These organizations are a primary source for large prospective projects. The objective when working with these professional organizations is to get specified in the projects they are working on. The successful DSM will assist these organizations by transferring both general and detailed knowledge about Salient’s products to them, and educate them about the regular releases that provide an established cadence of steady product improvements. This knowledge transfer will enable the security consultants/A&Es to help them advise their end user clients with confidence about the purchase of video surveillance products from Salient. Technology Partners – These organizations are a primary source for prospective projects. Engaging with camera and access control partners, among others, can create a natural process for obtaining new prospects from the technology partner. Salient is a neutral non-threatening VMS partner for both access control and camera companies without a competitive VMS or without any VMS. End Users – Once identified as qualified prospects, End Users become a sales target for the DSM. The successful DSM will effectively manage the prospective End User from discovery and qualification through to sale. Pipeline Management The successful DSM will manage a multi-million dollar business pipeline. The management of this pipeline is critical for the DSM’s success. Specific responsibilities include: • The successful DSM must be proficient in all aspects of the Salesforce CRM use and maintenance., • The DSM must maintain all reseller/integrator contact information, and record and manage regularly scheduled meetings as required to insure a growing pipeline and regular harvesting of all sales., • Prospective End Users will become Opportunities within Salesforce, and the establishment and maintenance of this database is required to achieve sales success at Salient. Your leaders will depend on the successful DSM to maintain critical integrity of the information surrounding all Opportunities., • More specifically as to Opportunities, the successful DSM must understand near term, one month, and quarterly closing opportunities to keep sales leadership fully informed on closing opportunities affecting a rolling 90-day forecast going forward., • The DSM must maintain all Security Consultant and A&E contact information and must maintain a regular cadence of lunch and learn meetings for effective knowledge transfer through presentation, demo and general education about Salient products. The maintenance of these relationships and this activity will ensure substantial growth of the consultant generated hard specified projects these professionals produce., • The successful DSM must maintain all Technology Parter relationships necessary to co-develop his/her opportunity pipeline with each partner contact. As with all other DSM relationships, regular communication with these partners will ensure a successful pipeline is built and joint sales success will occur. Being a successful DSM at Salient involves a very high level of activity and travel. A DSM should plan, more specifically, to: • Be in the field 3-4 days per week., • Maintain an active meeting schedule every week. Experience • 2–4 years of inside sales, business development, or sales support experience in the video surveillance or broader security technology industry., • Excellent presentation abilities, and written communication and speaking skills., • Proven skills to explain complex problems or solutions in an easy-to-understand way., • Demonstrated emotional intelligence that enables strong relationships with channel partners, consultants, technology partners, end users and colleagues., • Proficiency with Salesforce, • Ability to qualify prospects and support advancement through the pipeline, • Demonstrated understanding of the video surveillance market., • Demonstrate knowledge of video surveillance systems in general, and be able to discuss features, benefits, and solution selling skills to solve end user problems or eliminate end user pain points., • Consistent performance over time in top 10% of sales peer group., • Proven history of expanding market share in a region or territory., • 1-2 years of channel sales experience with manufacturer or integrator selling video surveillance., • 1-2 years of additional other experience as a sales/systems engineer, a system designer, or doing system installations, operations and support., • Candidates will be subject to a background check in accordance with federal and state regulations. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and transfer. Salient Systems makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.