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Summary
Senior Director for Southern Europe leading KnowBe4's Human Risk Management (HRM+) platform expansion across the region. This executive role drives business growth and market leadership in cybersecurity and security awareness training.
Job Description
KnowBe4 is the global leader in Human Risk Management, trusted by over 70,000 organizations worldwide to secure their employees and AI agents for over 15 years. We're pioneering a new era of security. AI-powered since 2016. And market-leading since day one.
Our HRM+ combines continuous risk intelligence, advanced technical defenses, and personalized training to help organizations build strong security cultures. We help organizations understand, measure, and reduce human risk across their entire workforce, defending against, deepfakes, and emerging AI-powered threats.
We believe that protecting organizations from cyberthreats and creating a positive environmental impact go hand in hand. True resilience is collective, it requires us to protect our people, our data, and our planet.
The Snr. Director of Sales (International) is responsible for leading a team of Account Executive, Account Management and Partner Management Leaders to drive sales efforts to meet and exceed Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) targets from a specified Area. They will actively manage their teams to identify areas of opportunities to execute strategic plans, grow the sales pipeline, close deals, and achieve revenue goals.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of Account Executives, Account Management and Partner Management Leaders to execute revenue strategies, exceed KPIs and ARR targets.
- Manage day-to-day activities through close analysis of sales statistics and pipeline reviews to help construct deals, account and lead follow up and prospecting methods
- Conduct pipeline reviews to help construct deals, ensure proper account and lead follow up and refine prospecting methods.
- Develop, drive and guide our partner activities to foster excellent relationships with new and existing ideal partners and large area resellers in the Area to grow net new revenue.
- Conduct weekly rhythm of the business reviews with VP and other sales enablement teams to identify trends and provide feedback on areas of opportunity and improvement.
- Validate sales representative staging and Area pipeline health to ensure accurate forecasting.
- Collaborate with the VP and EVP to discuss Area specific sales strategies, review KPI performance,refine processes and programs to achieve operational excellence.
- Understand assigned Area market demands to anticipate customer needs and ultimately increase new logo acquisition.
- Collaborate with Area Customer Success Leader to ensure the teams are aligned with all sales strategies and goals.
- Tag into deals with key partners and accounts to generate and close-won revenue opportunities.
- Conduct interviews with potential sales candidates to build a world class sales team.
- Manage Area sales budget requests for events, trade shows etc.
- Cooperate with People Operations to manage all HR-related issues within your team e.g. interviewing new candidates, helping with career development for high potential employees, and managing average and low performers.
Requirements:
- Minimum 10 years sales experience required
- Minimum 5 years of people management experience including experience managing leaders
- Bachelor degree or equivalent higher education experience, desirable
- Experience collaborating with Partner businesses and leading Channel sales teams, desirable
- Familiarity with standard concepts and practices within the IT, Security or Cybersecurity industry, desirable
- Experience with Salesforce, a plus
- Experience with Gmail and Google Docs
- Experience with MS Office (Word and Excel)
- Experience with web browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.)
- Strong verbal and written communications
- Fluent in French
- Excellent time management and organization skills
- Excellent strategic planning, problem solving and analytical skills
- Infectious positive, can-do attitude
- Ability to provide productive feedback and coaching to sales leaders and teams
- Strong verbal and written communications
- Demonstrates leadership and embodies core company values, including extreme ownership, honesty, and transparency, while instilling these principles in their teams.
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