SVP Commercial: MESA at Clickatell

Purpose:

The Senior Vice President: Commercial MESA (Middle East and South Africa) will be a key part of the Sales Organisation’s leadership team. This position will be responsible to for build a world class client-facing organization focused on developing a business strategy aligned to financial gain and customer satisfaction on all our verticals.

The role of our Champion:

• Developing national or international sales plans, justifying those plans to the Chief Commercial Officer.
• Supervising regional sales teams to ensure that they are successful.
• Build a world class client-facing organization focused by developing a business strategy focused on financial gain and customer satisfaction on vertical
• Develop annual sales plan in support of organization strategy and objectives.
• Builds, develops and manages regional sales team capable of carrying out needed sales initiatives.
• Direct implementation and execution of sales plan through direct reports.
• Direct business development activities with respect to key accounts.
• Contract negotiation and conclusion of commercial deals.
• Effective coordination with other functions in support of sales (marketing, technical support, financial reporting etc.)
• Contribute as part of the executive sales team towards the meeting of joint business development objective

The capabilities of our Champion:

• High level communication skills.
• Strong Interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lead large multi-dimensional teams work together in the most efficient ways possible.
• People-person who is skilled at impressing clients and satisfying customers.
• Strong business/commercial acumen or instinct.
• Problem Solving/Analysis skills.
• Results driven.
• Technical Capacity

Our Champions journey thus far:

• Proven and solid track record in closing complex deals internationally.
• experience with the full sales cycle
• Experience managing large teams
• Ability to eloquently convey complex ideas

Why you will love being here:

• Competitive salary paid monthly
• Medical aid contributions
• Commission eligibility
• Pension fund contribution
• Group life cover
• Communication allowances
• Undercover parking
• Half day off on your birthday
• Being part of a team that is unlocking possibilities with cutting edge technology
• Staff events, lunch on Fridays, cool offices, awesome sense of team