Enterprise Open Source Sales Manager at Canonical

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company. If you're interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.

 

Enterprise Open Source Sales Manager

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience
  • LocationNairobi
  • Job FieldICT / Computer  , Sales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development 
  • The successful candidate will carry an annual team bookings quota within their territory. They should be able to travel regionally for client engagement, industry conferences, and internationally for company events twice a year. They will be expected to demonstrate professionalism and effectiveness in managing their team. They will need to coach, mentor and lead by example. Their sales representatives are expected to prospect accounts for new business, maintain and develop existing relationships, and work with colleagues and partners on account strategy. They must be comfortable selling enterprise software, open source, cloud, virtualization, container technologies and technical software solutions to senior levels of the enterprise.

Location: We are expanding our sales organisation globally and have open roles in every region.
What your day will look like

  • Build and execute a territory plan to prioritize outreach and prospecting
  • Allocate portions of territory and accounts to sales representatives on your team
  • Identify and prioritise new logo accounts in your territory for account-based marketing and prospecting
  • Ensure that sales representatives have high quality account plans for existing accounts and priority prospects
  • Monitor new pipeline development by your team, through outreach, prospecting, local marketing, and industry events
  • Support contract closure to meet and exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets
  • Be mindful and proactive in achieving tactical and strategic objectives
  • Work with customer success to identify growth opportunities
  • Ensure your team maintain accurate pipeline data and forecasts within Salesforce
  • Represent the company, its solutions and software

What we are looking for in you

  • Bachelor's level degree, preferably in engineering or computer science
  • Leadership and management skill
  • Experience of open source technology and solutions
  • Detail oriented with effective planning, organisation and reporting skill
  • Experience in enterprise software or technology sales planning and execution
  • Track record of achievement in sales targets and new account wins
  • Self-discipline and motivation to be successful in a distributed team
  • Professional written and spoken English, as well as any language that may be appropriate for your target market
  • Ability to travel for customer engagements, industry events and company events

Additional Skills Of Interest

  • Specific vertical experience, in particular finance, telco, health, energy, public sector, tech
  • Experience speaking at conferences or industry events

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Canonical on boards.greenhouse.io to apply

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