Sales Director, Middle East, North Africa & Turkey (Hybrid)

at  Risk Solutions

About the Business
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below,
risk.lexisnexis.com
About our Team
Are you looking to join an industry-leading sales organisation? Our sales team is dedicated to partnering with organisations to address and solve complex risk problems. At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, we pride ourselves in providing solutions that directly impact our customers’ ability to mitigate and manage risk.
About the Role
You’ll lead our business strategically, ensuring profitable growth in a fast-expanding market. As a people leader, your role involves crafting and executing commercial strategies to seize market opportunities, enhance customer engagement, and surpass targets. In this role, you’ll be responsible for leading a team of 3 Business Development Executives focused on acquiring new logos, shaping business strategy, managing a team of sellers in a defined territory, and working alongside your team to nurture crucial customer relationships. Your responsibilities also include promoting customer-centricity across the business and driving best practices company-wide.

Responsibilities

• Exceeding financial and wider business objectives
• Attracting, retaining and growing a high-performance sales function
• Coaching and management of the sales team leveraging Insight Selling methodology and demonstrating and executing our best practices framework.
• Leading, developing, inspiring and motivating your team to deliver against business and team objectives
• Deploying resources into areas of best impact to execute on market strategy
• Increasing both customer and employee satisfaction, engagement, mission impact, loyalty, innovation and revenue
• Developing a deep understanding of customer workflow, market trends, opportunity and threats.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of driving growth to exceed financial and other business objectives in complex customer organisations.
• Show examples working cross-functionally to create high performance organisations
• Be well versed in creating and developing sales strategies to maximise go-to-market resource and execute against market opportunity.
• Demonstrate experience of C level commercial negotiations
• Be passionate about a world-class customer experience
• Proven track record of leading teams in value-based, customer-centric buying methodologies and exceeding objectives and financial goals
• Proven ability to identify, hire and develop high performing talent and managing under performance
• Able to champion diversity and representation, as well as leading proactive succession planning and talent management to improve customer outcomes

Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work
here
At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.
We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form:
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• Exceeding financial and wider business objectives
• Attracting, retaining and growing a high-performance sales function
• Coaching and management of the sales team leveraging Insight Selling methodology and demonstrating and executing our best practices framework.
• Leading, developing, inspiring and motivating your team to deliver against business and team objectives
• Deploying resources into areas of best impact to execute on market strategy
• Increasing both customer and employee satisfaction, engagement, mission impact, loyalty, innovation and revenue
• Developing a deep understanding of customer workflow, market trends, opportunity and threats