Regional Sales Manager

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer more productive and more profitable. For the first time ever safety operations and finance teams can manage their drivers vehicles equipment and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100000 customers from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses across a wide range of industries including transportation and logistics construction energy field service manufacturing agriculture food and beverage retail and the public sector.

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We are looking for a high performing frontline Sales Manager in SaaS to lead a team of Account Executives in the Mid-Market Sales segment. This is a tremendous opportunity to join a high-performing sales division in a fast-paced high-performing company in an industry that is rapidly expanding.

About the Mid-Market Segment:

Motive has three segments: SMB Mid-Market and Enterprise. Mid-Market is defined as any company with a total fleet size of between 50-174 vehicles. The AEs have approximately 2-5 years of quota carrying experience or they were recently promoted from the SDR/BDR org and are in a closing role for the first time. The sales process involves a technical win oftentimes with a hardware/software trial (POC). The AEs are paired with Sales Engineers throughout the sales cycle and the Account Management team owns the relationship post-close. There are currently 13 RSMs with roughly 7 AEs per RSM. The organization is based on account sets and round robins not geographic territories.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record hiring managing scaling and optimizing SaaS sales teams to consistently perform at or above quota. This candidate will report directly to a Director of Mid-Market and will be part of the tight-knit Mid-Market Sales Leadership team managed by the VP of Sales.

What Youll Do:

• Meet or exceed monthly and quarterly quota targets
• Interview hire ramp and develop new talent to scale the organization
• Coach up-level and support tenured AEs to drive consistent high-performance
• Ensure diligent execution of the sales processes
• Accurately forecast your teams monthly and quarterly performance
• Identify opportunities for improvement and surface risk to plan achievement
• Collaborate with peers and cross-functional teams to improve internal processes (ie. SDR SE CSM Leadership The Partners Team Marketing Sales Enablement Product Deal Desk)

• • 2-3 years experience as a frontline sales manager directly managing Account Executives in Software and/or Software/Hardware Sales
  • Identify areas of opportunity recommend solutions take ownership of implementation and/or project management if in another depts domain
  • Demonstrate a deep understanding of the business by sharing insights the root causes behind changes in KPIs the frequency and impact of these root causes and your recommendations to double down or course correct as needed
  • Exhibit a competitive mindset always striving for success
  • Receptive to feedback willingness to learn and embrace continuous improvement
  • Knows what results are important and focuses resources to achieve them
  • Keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with business situations
  • Transportation or Logistics experience preferred - this can be removed*
  • Strong experience with Salesforce or other CRM and sales technologies for forecasting pipeline management and sales acceleration
  • Bachelors Degree required

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