Regional Sales Director, Northern Europe Identity & Biometric Solutions (IBS)
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Posted on:
08-11-2025
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Job Summary
The position requires that you undergo and be approved in accordance with the applicable regulations for security protection. For positions where Thales has requirements for security clearance this may entail a requirement for Swedish citizenship.
We are looking for the Regional Sales Director for Identity and Biometric Solutions (IBS) Business Line in Northern Europe (9 countries) based in Stockholm - Hybrid.
Identity & Biometric Solutions (IBS) business line
Thales Identity and Biometric Solutions (IBS) Business Line is part of the global Thales Group which employs more than 80000 people in 68 countries.
Thales delivers identity and biometric solutions to governments public authorities and private entities in civil identity and public security. We do this by providing highly secure documents such as passports ID cards drivers licenses etc. at the heart of identity schemes. We also provide solutions for verifying peoples identities for example when they cross borders and enrolling them in national registers. Both of these are built on our expertise in biometrics.
And as governments go through a digital transformation we support them by delivering secure convenient and feature-proof mobile identity digital identity wallet platform and services. We also address public security and law enforcement challenges by offering the latest in criminal forensics and real-time facial recognition.
Your responsibility will be to manage IBS sales team of 5 Sales Managers located in several countries in Northern Europe and to drive the sales and account management operations and to supervise the projects execution in the region with the objective to deliver sustained profitable growth.
You will be reporting to VP Sales IBS Europe and Eurasia and be mentored and onboarded to existing customer portfolio and trained for relevant products and solutions.
In order to apply for this role we value that you have thorough knowledge of managing sales teams in complex sales of ICT solutions in B2G or B2B environment. Also proven experience in public procurement processes is an asset.
Managing a team of 5 people the ideal candidate will be expected to drive the team to:
Develop and maintain deep understanding of the target market per country customer needs priorities trends competitive landscape etc.
Build strong trust-based relations with the customers and with the key partners.
Build and maintain wide pipeline of business opportunities in mid and long term.
Define the capture plan including winning strategy for all target opportunities and to orchestrate internal resources for capture plan execution.
Drive the tender teams towards successful capture of the tendered projects.
Target growth and profitability.
Coordinate IBS actions in the country.
Qualifications:
Strong background in managing complex sales of ICT solutions in B2G or B2G environment.
Experience with managing sales teams preferably preferably in international environment.
Proven experience with public procurement processes is an asset.
Ability to work with long sales-cycles.
Experience in international matrix organizations.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
University education on Master level.
Fluent spoken and written Swedish and English is mandatory
Personal qualifications:
Autonomous self-driven and resilient.
Hunting gene energetic and positive minded.
Structured and able to comply to processes.
Outstanding networking skills are of great importance.
Open and transparent mindset honest team-player.
What We Can Offer:
Thales provides an excellent opportunity to develop a dynamic career in a friendly international team and environment where we value your contribution believe in your potential and are committed to your development. We support you with a clear career path that is underpinned by our policies of promotion from within mobility training and development line with our strategy of putting the needs of customers at the center of everything we do and our commitment to innovation we know it is our people who make it happen and together we strive to exceed our customers expectations.
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