The Print Sales Executive is responsible for managing the printer business unit portfolio in an assigned regional geography to achieve business objectives including assigned written business targets. The sales executive is expected to be capable of understanding strategic business direction, align go-to-market strategies to the territory requirements and drive execution plans to achieve objectives.
The Print Sales Executive is the leader that builds and maintains relationships with end users, the regional sales and pre-sales teams, product management, customer marketing and service teams to formulate strategies to optimize account development, client satisfaction and loyalty. This role will spend 80% in a direct to client sales role, driving results as an individual contributor and ~20% of their time acting as a product specialist that supports the corresponding sales team. This is hunter sales role!
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES- Sales Growth - Achieve growth in sales attainment (written business) from all segments of current customers, competitive targets and new clients.
- Revenue / Margin Growth - Achieve consistent year-on-year growth from all revenue sources, including services and consumables, while maintaining or improving gross margins.
- Own stage 2 (identification) through stage 6 (closed won) steps of the sale, specifically including discovery, demonstration, cost justification/ROI/proposal generation. Drive account sales activities for inkjet opportunities for both new opportunities as well as existing Bluecrest inkjet placements. Own Client base for inkjet installations.
- Solutions Growth - Achieve consistent solutions growth, cross-selling new applications and taking market share from competitive solutions users.
- Training & Development - Ensure development plans are in place and executed so that growth and personal development targets are achieved.
- Sales Reporting & Pipeline Management - Ensure timely/accurate recording, tracking and reporting of sales activities and customer information through ongoing usage of sales automation tools by all sales representatives and sales support. Provide an accurate forecast of region sales results. At all levels, review and analyze the sales pipeline to provide an accurate forecast of monthly results.
- Consistent and effective execution of sales methodologies and use of systems (Microsoft D365 CE) to ensure higher win rates, higher average order values, greater deal velocity and effective forecasting.
- Account Planning - Create and manage account plans with extended team to fully penetrate the Market. Coordinate activities among sales support resources.
- Communication - Demonstrate strong executive communications and leadership skills. Strong English written and verbal are required and French language skills are preferred.
QUALIFICATIONS (SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS)The ideal candidate will possess the following experience:
- Education & Experience - A bachelor's degree from a four-year accredited university. A demonstrated minimum of 5+ years of successful, very high-volume production inkjet print sales experience in a hunter sales role including personal territory management.
- Success in working across matrix-based solutions sales teams, team building, coordinating resources.
Specialized Skills:
- Successful production digital inkjet equipment selling experience with a focus on the transactional workflow and customer communications management markets. Print and Mail industry knowledge and knowledge of the competitive technology providers is required.
- Demonstrated experience in client ROI/financial management and business case development.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, along with the ability to represent BlueCrest at th highest customer management levels.
- Work Environment/Physical Demands - Frequent travel (50+%) to interact with customer/prospects across the assigned geography in USA and Canada. Ability to effectively work in an agile work environment using a variety of communication tools.
The ideal candidate will possess the following experience:
- Education & Experience - A bachelor's degree from a four-year accredited university. A demonstrated minimum of 5+ years of successful, very high-volume production inkjet print sales experience in a hunter sales role including personal territory management.
- Success in working across matrix-based solutions sales teams, team building, coordinating resources.
Specialized Skills:
- Successful production digital inkjet equipment selling experience with a focus on the transactional workflow and customer communications management markets. Print and Mail industry knowledge and knowledge of the competitive technology providers is required.
- Demonstrated experience in client ROI/financial management and business case development.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, along with the ability to represent BlueCrest at th highest customer management levels.
- Work Environment/Physical Demands - Frequent travel (50+%) to interact with customer/prospects across the assigned geography in USA and Canada. Ability to effectively work in an agile work environment using a variety of communication tools.
