Regional Vice President, Nordics

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About The Team

Workday is looking for a Regional Vice President, Nordics to lead and grow a world-class team of Regional Sales Directors and Account Executives selling next generation Enterprise Cloud Applications.

As the leader of a critical sector that directly impacts the overall company goal, he/she will have the growth potential to take on larger responsibilities as Workday looks to double in size and beyond in the coming years.

About The Role

The ideal candidate will have built and led high performing sales teams across our growth markets, across industry verticals and across a broad Enterprise Cloud portfolio, with a strong track record of driving innovation, scalability and disruptive thinking. This person needs to be an expert at positioning business value, selling enterprise software solutions, managing complex sales cycles and building relationships with key stakeholders.

• Guide and manage the activities of the their assigned sector to ensure that company revenue goals and objectives are exceeded
• Develop and execute on a business plan to expand the Workday footprint
• Managing daily and weekly activities, pipelines, forecasts and closed deals to ensure above quota results based on successful pipeline management
• Attracting, hiring, on-boarding and retaining top sales talent
• Display a thorough understanding of business needs and revenue potential for accounts in the assigned region
• Work with team members individually as needed while always promoting a healthy team environment
• Supporting the sales team in their sales meetings with prospects
• Leveraging metrics to measure results
• Demonstrating the value placed on continued training and education through the enforcement of the Workday Way
• Function as a change agent, demonstrating his/her ability to uphold the standards consistent with a strong pipeline management system that leverages its own relevant performance data
• Function in a strategic capacity while enforcing tactical team performance issues
• Building a results-driven culture of accountability and transparency
• Maintaining an external focus, championing shareholder interests and focusing on customers in decision-making
• Serving as a visionary, articulating a compelling, long-term vision for the future, inspiring others to action
• Demonstrating strategic thought leadership, engaging in reengineering to redeploy invested capital to higher value opportunities
• Exemplifying logic in making decisions based on relevant facts and data, not assumptions and hope
  
  

About You

The Regional Vice President, Nordics will be a seasoned executive with tremendous drive, intelligence and capability. She/he will be highly motivated and have the ability and desire to have an impact on the future of the business. The successful candidate will be a multi-dimensional thinker who operates not only on the basis of important past experiences, but in light of new approaches and developments that occur in the market.

Additional personal and professional attributes include:

• Minimum of 10+ years enterprise software sales experience successfully selling solutions at the C-level with 4+ years of sales management experience. 2nd line sales management experience is a plus.
• Experience managing and building a team of successful SaaS and/or Cloud sales professionals and ability to train RSDs and AEs
• Proven leadership ability to influence, develop and empower employees to achieve objectives with a team approach
• Strong track record of exceeding company sales quotas and forecasts in a complex sales environment
• Experience in territory management and planning, at the regional and account levels
• Proven expertise with teaching, coaching and training sales methodologies
• Strong written, verbal, presentation and organizational skills required
• Willing to travel as needed
  
  

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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