Head of Middle East

Who We Are

Verkada is building a world-class sales organisation and is looking for an entrepreneurial and results-driven leader to drive our expansion into the UAE. This hands-on role is perfect for a senior sales leader who is ready to set the strategy, hire a small team, and drive sales in a start-up environment.  

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the team of Account Executives in achieving individual and team quota
• Ongoing mentoring and development of sales team which includes recruiting, hiring and mentoring new reps
• Conduct weekly forecast meetings
• You will be reporting on sales activity and forecast to the head of EMEA 
• Consistently monitoring the sales activity of the team, and tracking the results
• Quote, negotiate, and assist sales reps in closing highly complex transactions through the development of executive-level relationships with key prospects
• Manage daily and weekly activities, pipelines, forecasts and closed deals to ensure above-quota results based on successful pipeline management
• Coordinate and lead weekly and monthly one-on-one and team-wide pipeline reviews, meetings and training sessions to ensure ongoing improvement.
• Work closely with channel partners to generate pipeline within UAE

Required Skills

• Demonstrated success in directly leading a high-performing sales team within a sales environment
• You must demonstrate different influencing styles as appropriate to a situation, whilst demonstrating a history of successfully building and maintaining trusting relationships with colleagues and customers
• Proven experience in working in an indirect sales model is mandatory
• Experience of leading, coaching, and developing account executives
• Successful track record in a high-volume transaction sales environment
• Excellent presentation and listening skills
• Should be able to thrive in a very rapidly changing environment
• Proven ability to successfully hire and train new sales representatives and coach lower performers through to success
• Successful history of closing business, and over-achieving quota
• Demonstrated ability to accurately forecast sales results
• Willingness to travel
• Bilingual 

Additional Information:

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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