Sunday, January 20, 2008

Vice President of Sales - Ft. Worth, TX

Job Title: Vice President of Sales
Location: Ft. Worth
Compensation: $150K base plus bonus

Working primarily from our Fort Worth, Texas headquarters, this high profile position requires the ability to drive sales through a management team. Reporting to the President, the Vice President of Sales will have complete responsibility for our North American Sales territories and oversight of our sales team. This person will have the responsibility of developing and executing an integrated sales plan that will help the company grow in terms of volume, market share and profit. The Vice President of Sales must directly expand, develop and lead the sales directors to achieve their maximum potential. This person will have “hands-on” responsibility for hiring, coaching/mentoring, training, and motivating the sales team to achieve their goals and will coordinate all appropriate departments to assure that aggressive and attainable sales plans are developed. Lastly, this person is expected to fulfill a key role on the company executive management team.

The ideal candidate will possess an undergraduate degree in marketing or business (an MBA is a plus). You must be a strong leader who has a proven track record in driving results and showing new and improved methods of relational selling. The successful candidate will possess strong analytical skills and be able to demonstrate success and over-achievement in selling and managing in a product and/or professional services environment. This person will likely have a minimum of 10-15 years of business experience of which 5-10 has been in leadership-based positions. The ideal person will have outstanding values, a commanding presence, demonstrate strong general business skills, including financial management, and the ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels within the organization.