Flowserve

Director, Sales

Flowserve$130K — $180K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of commercial experience in sales leadership roles
  • Successful track record in managing large sales organizations
  • Proven ability to drive sustained revenue and margin growth
  • Experience engaging enterprise customers and strategic accounts
  • Accountability for pricing, pipeline management, and commercial governance
  • Strong influence and collaboration skills across functions
  • Proficient in strategic thinking and operational execution
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and retain high-performing sales teams
  • Solid understanding of P&L, pricing, and margin management
  • Familiarity with data analytics for performance evaluation

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute an enterprise-aligned sales strategy
  • Drive profitable growth across new and existing business
  • Lead and coach a high-performing sales leadership team
  • Establish expectations and manage KPIs for sales execution
  • Build a future-ready talent pipeline through succession planning
  • Engage at the executive level with key customers and strategic partners
  • Represent the company with credibility and strong commercial acumen
  • Leverage market insights to inform strategy and investment decisions
  • Collaborate cross-functionally for balanced operational excellence
  • Contribute to enterprise planning and transformation initiatives
  • Lead change effectively in complex environments

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape and drive sales strategy at an executive level
  • Engagement with senior-level stakeholders and enterprise customers
  • Access to a robust talent development pipeline
  • Potential for career growth in a collaborative enterprise environment
  • Involvement in multi-year growth planning and transformation initiatives
Full Job Description
Position Overview

The Director of Sales is responsible for defining and executing sales strategy to drive sustainable revenue growth, margin expansion, and customer penetration across priority markets. This executive will be accountable for translating enterprise strategy into commercial execution, building high-performing sales leaders and teams, and strengthening customer relationships at the most senior levels.

Key Responsibilities

Commercial Strategy & Growth
  • Define and execute an enterprise-aligned sales strategy grounded in market segmentation and clear customer value propositions.
  • Drive profitable growth across new business, existing customers, and strategic accounts with strong ownership of revenue outcomes.

Sales Leadership & Execution
  • Lead and develop a high-performing sales leadership team with clear accountability, consistent execution, and strong performance management.
  • Establish and reinforce clear expectations, KPIs, operating rhythms, and disciplined opportunity, pricing, and deal governance.
  • Build a robust, future-ready talent pipeline through succession planning, capability development, and selective external hiring.

Customer & Market Engagement
  • Maintain direct executive-level engagement with key customers, strategic partners, and industry stakeholders.
  • Represent the company externally with credibility, executive presence, and strong commercial acumen.
  • Leverage customer and market insights to inform strategy, innovation, and investment decisions.

Enterprise Leadership
  • Act as a collaborative enterprise leader, working cross-functionally to balance growth, margin, and operational excellence.
  • Contribute to enterprise planning processes including AOP, multi-year growth planning, and transformation initiatives.
  • Lead change effectively in complex, matrixed environments.


Qualifications & Experience
  • 10+ years of progressive commercial experience, with significant leadership roles in sales.
  • Proven success leading large, multi-layered sales organizations (regional, global, or matrixed).
  • Demonstrated track record of driving sustained revenue growth and margin improvement in complex B2B environments.
  • Experience with enterprise customers, strategic accounts, and solution-based or engineered offerings strongly preferred.
  • Prior accountability for forecasting, pipeline rigor, pricing, and commercial governance.
  • Highly collaborative leader with an enterprise mindset; able to cultivate influence without relying on authority.
  • Results-driven, accountable, and comfortable making decisions in ambiguous or high-pressure environments.
  • Strategic and critical thinker with the ability to translate strategy into operational execution.
  • Proven ability to build, develop, and retain top sales talent.
  • Strong commercial and financial acumen, including understanding of P&L drivers, pricing, and margin management.
  • Data-driven approach to decision-making, with comfort using analytics to drive performance and predict outcomes.

About Flowserve

Flowserve Corporation is an American multinational corporation that develops and manufactures flow control equipment such as valves, pumps, seals, and automation systems. It serves a wide range of industries including oil and gas, chemical, power generation, and water management. Flowserve has a global presence with over 18,000 employees in more than 55 countries. The company was founded in 1997, but its history dates back to the 1790s with the founding of Simpson & Thompson, a British pump manufacturer. Flowserve is committed to sustainability and has implemented various initiatives to reduce its environmental impact, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions and water usage.
Learn more about Flowserve
Size
15,000 employees
Market Cap
$3.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$115.9 million
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
-2.4%
Revenue
$3.7 billion
NASDAQ

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