Director, Regional Sales Central

Who is Tenable

Tenable is the Exposure Management company. Over 40000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500 50 percent of the Global 2000 and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!

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Your Role:

Tenable is seeking a Regional Sales Director responsible for leading a regional sales team of highly skilled seasoned sales individuals. The Regional Sales Director will map the course develop the vision and implement annual plans and is accountable for delivering measurable results that achieves and exceeds revenue and margin targets.

Your Opportunity:

• Act as the front line manager to recruit the direct sales management team and ensure in turn that these managers effectively recruit hire develop and manage a tiered sales team
• Accurately manage inspect and report in a predictable manner on all aspects of pipeline development and forecasts for the region
• Split time 50/50 between managing a team and customer interfacing calls
• Works closely with new as well as established channel partners to generate new business opportunities
• Develop go to market plan for the specific region
• Lead negotiations for large complex deals
• Work closely with leadership for other functions such as Sales Engineering Channel finance legal R&D and marketing to ensure efficient alignment to regional activities and to enable optimum sales performance
• Direct sales responsibility for accounts in region and attain revenue goal for new product sales
• Initiate establish and maintain contact with team members prospects clients and partners within assigned territory
• Develop recommendations for growth opportunities for growth and key target accounts in the assigned territory
• Develop and maintain a complete knowledge of Tenables products

What Youll Need:

• 10 years of Director-level management experience of direct reports in a fast paced highly competitive ever-changing sales environment
• Minimum 6 years experience selling Security Products: Vulnerability Management Continuous Monitoring IDS/IPS SIEM DLP Compliance Encryption access Management Authentication etc.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of how to sell multi-product software solutions
• Minimum of 8 years in quota carrying sales role with demonstrated success
• Extensive experience negotiating large complex deals with extremely complex terms conditions price pressures and considerations
• Proven track record working with channel and technology partners to build strategic and cooperative sales campaigns together
• History of coordination within an internal set of multi-functional teams such as Sales Engineers Inside Reps Field Marketing Professional Services and Channel Management to ensure target quotas as achieved and exceeded
• Reference-able domain expertise of the Southeast US Region accounts decision makers and channel partners

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