Manager, Sales - KSA

The Red Hat Sales team is looking for an experienced Sales focused Manager to join us in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. You will be responsible for promoting sales, ensuring customer satisfaction, and managing partner engagement within the Commercial customer segment. This is a completely sales-driven, quota-oriented role where you will be expected to guide large, complex customer engagements. We'll need you to bring a solid network of relationships and a detailed understanding of the sectors. As part of the Red Hat KSA Regional Leadership team, you will also strive for organizational excellence, be involved in coaching and mentoring talent, as well as engaging stakeholders in making Red Hat KSA a fun and better place to work. As a Sales Manager, you’ll need to have solid communication skills, as you will be providing demonstrations to show how our technologies can be integrated into partners' systems to deliver a higher return on investment, while communicating how open source delivers value to their customers. This position is open to Saudi nationals only. What you will do :

Manage a team of experienced sales and customer-facing professionals. Lead them in managing comprehensive engagements with stakeholders in the assigned segment; these stakeholders could be customers, partners, consultants, etc. Manage delivery to plan, pipeline creation, guiding linearity, guiding optimal wallet-share with customers; partnering strategy for the assigned segment will be intrinsic to this role Develop and implement joint business plans that identify key growth areas in the target segment to help increase revenue, capitalize on our technologies, and increase their commitment to our business relationship Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders within Red Hat and with key stakeholders in the assigned segment Coach, mentor, and lead team members; be actively involved in adding new talent to the organization What you will bring :

7+ years of customer related sales experience in enterprise technology, e.g., infrastructure software, including operating systems, security, cloud-enablement, information management, and middleware IT services, including system integration, and application development Build and maintain strategic relationships with C-level customers and partners to drive business success Understanding of the complete sales cycle management, from prospecting to closing Ability to build long-term relationships with customers and partners by establishing trust and credibility with an emphasis on coaching teams to achieve this high level of competence Proven success in implementing short and long-term focused strategies to grow revenue within a region Record of ownership over personal and team revenue targets, forecasting sales accurately, and identifying critical sales pipeline indicators Demonstrated experience of business management in direct and matrixed reporting lines - Experience working in a global technology company; record of contributing to the broader region's business success Bachelor's degree, preferably with a relevant advanced degree Proven experience ensuring that P&L targets are met or exceeded Excellent communication skills in Arabic & English languages #LI-AM4 About Red Hat

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