Pitney Bowes

Strategic Sales Director

Pitney Bowes$105K — $150K *
US-Anywhere
+ 4 other locationsRemote
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in competitive intelligence, product marketing, or market strategy
  • Expertise in building competitive intelligence infrastructure
  • Strong understanding of buyer psychology and decision drivers
  • Familiarity with postal regulations and pricing structures
  • Experience with platforms like Klue, Gong, or Salesforce
  • Exceptional executive-level communication skills
  • Advanced degree in business or strategy preferred

Responsibilities

  • Own and update competitive intelligence profiles
  • Monitor market signals for regulatory and pricing changes
  • Analyze early competitive indicators from various sources
  • Develop buyer-centric competitive narratives
  • Conduct scenario planning for sales positioning
  • Identify and prioritize vulnerable competitor accounts
  • Collaborate with sales leadership on takeaway goals
  • Support competitive deal strategy and objection handling
  • Implement a structured win-loss program with actionable insights
  • Maintain and embed competitive enablement tools into training
  • Provide cross-functional impact through briefings and dashboards
  • Create a feedback loop to refine competitive strategy

Benefits

  • Career growth and development opportunities
  • Inclusive workplace fostering diverse perspectives
  • Unique challenges contributing to organizational transformation
  • Comprehensive global benefits and wellbeing programs
Full Job Description
Job Description:

You Are

A commercial strategist who turns competitive intelligence into revenue. You see the market clearly, including carrier pricing, postal regulation, digital entrants, and shifting buyer behavior, and convert that insight into displacement opportunities for the sales organization. You build the intelligence engine, competitive narratives, and field tools that give sales a decisive advantage. You operate as a trusted advisor to sales and commercial leadership and influence go to market strategy at the company level.

You Will
  • Own competitive intelligence and maintain deep, continuously updated profiles on competitors, digital entrants, pricing structures, positioning, sales motions, and retention tactics.
  • Track market and regulatory signals by monitoring carrier rate changes, USPS filings, PRC proceedings, and surcharge cycles to identify shifts that create switching opportunities.
  • Surface early competitive indicators by analyzing earnings calls, analyst reports, job postings, release notes, and customer reviews to detect strategic moves early.
  • Build competitive narratives that reflect buyer decision drivers and documented customer outcomes.
  • Run scenario planning to pressure test positioning and prepare sales for likely competitor moves.
  • Build and prioritize a competitive takeaway pipeline by identifying vulnerable competitor accounts, scoring displacement probability, and directing sales effort toward high value targets.
  • Partner with sales leadership to set quarterly takeaway goals and align prospecting strategy to intelligence.
  • Advise on competitive pursuits by supporting deal strategy, positioning, objection handling, and stakeholder mapping.
  • Run a structured win loss program that captures buyer decision drivers and competitive objections and synthesizes findings into quarterly reports that improve messaging and field tactics.
  • Maintain competitive enablement tools including battle cards, playbooks, talk tracks, and pre call briefings, and embed content into training while measuring adoption and win rate impact.
  • Drive cross functional impact by delivering briefings to leadership, shaping pricing and product decisions, and maintaining dashboards that track competitive performance.
  • Create a structured intelligence feedback loop so insights from wins, losses, and at risk renewals continuously inform strategy.


You Bring
  • Competitive intelligence expertise with five or more years in CI, product marketing, market strategy, or sales strategy, ideally in mailing, shipping, logistics, or adjacent industries.
  • Ability to build CI infrastructure including monitoring systems, profiling programs, and win loss engines that drive measurable sales outcomes.
  • Understanding of buyer psychology and the ability to translate decision drivers into competitive narratives and field guidance.
  • Regulatory and pricing fluency including postal rate changes, surcharge cycles, and regulatory timelines as competitive inputs.
  • Hands on platform experience with Klue, Crayon, AlphaSense, Clozd, Gong, ZoomInfo, or 6sense.
  • CRM proficiency with Salesforce preferred and the ability to connect intelligence directly to pipeline and revenue outcomes.
  • Executive level communication with skill in synthesizing complex market data into clear recommendations for leadership.
  • Advanced education such as an MBA or advanced degree in business, marketing, or strategy.


Compensation: $105,000-$150,000 base salary, commensurate with experience. Eligible for annual performance bonus.

What Success Looks Like
  • Competitive win rates improve year over year with clear win loss evidence.
  • Sales leadership can point to a live, prioritized pipeline of competitive takeaway targets at any moment.
  • Field reps cite competitive intelligence as a material factor in how they prepare for and win contested deals.
  • Competitive insights visibly shape product, pricing, and go to market decisions across the leadership team.


We will:
• Provide the opportunity to grow and develop your career
• Offer an inclusive environment that encourages diverse perspectives and ideas
• Deliver challenging and unique opportunities to contribute to the success of a transforming organization
• Offer comprehensive benefits globally(PB Benefits and Wellbeing Programs)

About Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes Inc. is an American technology company most known for its postage meters and other mailing equipment and services, and with expansions into e-commerce, software, and other technologies. The company was founded by Arthur Pitney, who invented the first commercially available postage meter, and Walter Bowes as the Pitney Bowes Postage Meter Company on April 23, 1920. The company provides mailing and shipping services, global e-commerce logistics, and financial services to approximately 750,000 customers globally, as of 2021. Pitney Bowes is a certified "work-share partner" of the United States Postal Service, and helps the agency sort and process 15 billion pieces of mail annually. Pitney Bowes has also commissioned surveys related to international e-commerce. Pitney Bowes is based in Stamford, Connecticut and as of October 2021 employed approximately 11,000 people worldwide.
Learn more about Pitney Bowes
Size
11,500 employees
Market Cap
$643.8 million
Industry
Net Income
-$181.5 million
Founded
1920
5 Year Trend
+4.3%
Revenue
$3.5 billion
NASDAQ

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