SALES DIRECTOR

Company: Celestica
Location: Manchester
Posted on: October 19, 2024

Job Description:

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Req ID: 121671
Remote Position: Yes
Region: Americas
Country: USA
Summary
As our customers look for opportunity in a world of rapid change and technology disruption, they trust Celestica to deliver the most advanced design, engineering and manufacturing expertise for their highly sophisticated and complex electronics and related products. At Celestica, you have the opportunity to shape your career among an inclusive, diverse group of experienced employees and talented newcomers working around the globe.

As a Sales leader at Celestica, you will have the exciting opportunity to help drive the growth and shape the future of the collaborative, high performance, growth oriented business unit, (CCS) Connectivity and Cloud Solutions segment. Your responsibilities will include discovering, developing, and closing high impact opportunities through your knowledge of IT infrastructure, architecture, products and services and sales ability/relationship development.
Responsibilities
Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

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• Drives and exceeds revenue and market share in defined target accounts/region.
  
• Develops and executes on account strategies in partnership with the business development team.
  
• Establishes long term strategic senior level relationships with customers.
  
• Identifies influencers and key decision makers within the account establishing and maintaining close relationships with these stakeholders.
  
• Consistent focus on competitive intelligence.
  
• Manages customer perceptions and the overall customer relationship process.
  
• Consistently identifies potential new opportunities and/or solutions with existing or new customers based on deep understanding of needs.
  
• Participates in proposal creation and influence competitive cost targets, trade-offs, and business cases.
  
• Collaborates with colleagues (executive, leadership and peers) to develop new products and services for customers.
  
• Fosters, promotes and facilitates cross-selling of Celestica wide products, services and capabilities.
  
• Understands how to leverage big data, cloud to create competitive advantage.
  
• Developing new markets.
  
• Leverage external partnerships to augment current capabilities and to enhance value proposition and market competitiveness.
  
• Acts as the customer advocate to ensure that the organization remains customer-focused.
  
• Delivers quotations and RFQ responses to customers.
  
  Knowledge/Skills/Competencies
  
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  • Provides high value industry knowledge and consulting to customers on IT technology, architecture, products and services.
    
  • Specifically positioned to build Celestica's image as a trusted advisor and promote Celestica value proposition and related roadmap portfolio.
    
  • Knowledgeable on server, storage and network hardware and software ecosystem vendors.
    
  • Knowledge and experience in consultative selling to OEMs.
    
  • Extremely strong communication, interpersonal, relationship management and professional sales skills.
    
  • Strong reporting skills as well as time and priority management skills.
    
  • Strong strategic planning and execution skills.
    
  • Strong team management skills and high level of ability to work with others as part of a cross-functional team.
    
  • Self-starter who has demonstrated the ability to own, define, develop and execute a sales plan and consistently deliver on quarterly revenue targets.
    
  • Travel required both domestic and internationally 25%-50% (Position is based in the Bay Area, California).
    
    Physical Demands
    
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    • Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
      
    • Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
      
    • Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
      
    • Overnight travel may be required.
      
    • This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. The preferred candidate should reside in the Bay Area, but we are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, or Oregon as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.
      
      Typical Experience
      
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      • 10-15 years of technology related sales or business development experience.
        
      • 5-7 years of sales experience selling Servers, Storage and Networking products and solutions into OEMs.
        
        Typical Education
        
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        • Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
          
        • Educational requirements may vary by geography.
          
          All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
          Celestica's policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law. This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
          COMPANY OVERVIEW:
          Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.
          Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted. Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.
          
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