Regional Business Development Manager- LenelS2
About This Role
The LenelS2 Business Development Manager role is responsible for driving incremental business in their geographic territories.
The role requires an experienced and aggressive business development professional with solid industry and product knowledge, strong technical skills, knowledge of latest access control and video technologies with exceptional sales skills.
The candidate must be able to operate in a matrix organization, working with our customers as well as sales, product management, engineering and operations teams.
This role has significant travel requirements; the successful candidate must be willing and able to travel up to 75% of the time.
Depending on your location, it could be 25-40% overnight travel domestically. You will primarily work with large prospective end-users, architects, engineers, and consultants to ensure LenelS2 is their product of choice for deployment.
The territory for this role includes Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, DC Metro, Pennsylvania, and Southern New Jersey.
Key Responsibilities
Full ownership of all enterprise new business opportunities.
Deliver on financial objectives in conjunction with your local Regional Sales Managers (RSM’s)
Build and implement sales action plans to effectively and efficiently execute on company strategy
Provide active participation in sales activities required to achieve business success
Develop key sales competencies as required to maximize success, including but not limited to prospecting, lead generation, influencing, business acumen and business judgment
Hold yourself accountable(weekly activity reports / Salesforce.com) to effective execution of key deliverables, key metrics, and key activities
Participate in clear communication with your teammates locally
Ensure connectivity with business imperatives
Develop strategic clarity and a clear understanding of your assigned role, expectations, and performance
Maintain an extensive knowledge of customers, opportunities, markets and competition
Build and maintain aggressive account growth plans of top customers in assigned geography and execute those plans
Enable connections with proper internal resources so as to provide our customers with value and ease of doing business
Add value to customers through growth and support activities including product demonstrations, regional trade shows and product road shows
Own RFP responses and submittals within local territory
Execute on internal business deliverables with the appropriate timeframe
Provide productive strategic and market feedback to the business
Build and execute on plans to support customer and market training needs
Manage and execute on market strategic initiatives and programs
Basic Qualifications
High School Diploma or GED
3+ years of sales experience in the Security, Access Control, or Video industry
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s and / or Master’s Degree
Strong interpersonal written / verbal communication, organizational and leadership skills
Developed and proven sales skills including prospecting, negotiating, influencing and selling
Ability to interface and influence at all levels in the organization
Proven analytical and problem resolution skills
Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks
Strong attention to detail
Proactive and high energy, strong customer focus and responsiveness, adaptable
Technically competent to run product demonstrations
Self-managed and goal oriented
Strong ethical and moral compass