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Sales Director
**Job Summary**
Sells Equinix solutions to new accounts and/or expands existing accounts. Focus on largest global accounts in region. Facilitate strategic account planning, leads negotiation process, and leads extended sales team on complex multi-region / multi-metro sales. Develop and lead the Equinix Field Sales Team in Indonesia.
**Responsibilities**
Business goals
- Achieves personal and team business goals on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
- Develops, coaches and lead the Field Sales team to success
Build Customer Relationships
- Plans, builds, and manages relationships with key stakeholders in assigned accounts/prospects
- Facilitates customer relationships to ensure timely resolution of customer issues
- Conducts quarterly business reviews with customers to identify and develop new selling opportunities
- Leads Executive Briefings
Leverage Internal & External Partners
- Leads a coordinated sales approach with the extended sales team (Sales Engineers, Solutions Architect, Customer Care, SSA, Commercial Solutions, Sales Operations, etc.) and external partners (Reseller, Service Providers, Strategic Alliance Partners, etc.)
- Collaborate with the sales teams around the world to sell Platform Equinix globally
- Understands business drivers of accounts and leverages strategic alliances and reseller partners to penetrate accounts
Account Planning
- Research and documents detailed understanding of customer business and organizational landscape
- Develops strategic, global account plans focused on maintaining/growing accounts
- Drives strategic, global & multi-line of business global account plans
Solution Selling
- Identifies customer's business needs, challenges, and technical requirements, matching to Equinix solutions in partnership with SEs/SAs
- Leading delivery of pitch, partnering with the Global Technical Sales team
- Sells full suite of Equinix offerings to include global footprint and achieves exports
Contract Renewals
- Proactively addresses churn risk customers using internal resources and external partners
- Facilitates customer contract renewals and negotiations to protect revenue
- Leverages resources to understand customers' obligations around notice periods, renewal terms, and Equinix's exposure
Pipeline Management
- Actively supervises and maintains status of opportunities in SFDC, following the principles of forecasting
- Identifies at-risk accounts, expiring contracts and forecasts churn
Territory Planning
- Entrepreneurial approach in penetrating and growing Malaysian metro through thoughtful strategy, planning and execution
- Prioritizes list of accounts/prospects for short and long-term pursuit to achieve assigned sales objectives
- Provides accurate forecasts using the Equinix CRM and Forecasting tools
- May focus on vertical or sub-vertical within a dedicated sector
Prospecting
- Coordinates with Opportunity Development Team to strategize lead & sales opportunity qualification
- Activity managers pipeline development and progression through prospecting on a daily basis
- Uses tools to prospect and leverage account strategy plans
Negotiation
- Leads commercial offer and contract negotiations, using internal resources as needed to acquire the best commercial terms possible
- Understands commercial levers and problem solves to make initial recommendations on deal structure
- Partners with sales leadership to present at regional deal review
**Qualifications**
- 15+ years of direct B2B selling experience that includes having led high performance sales teams
- Minimum Bachelor's Degree required
- Extensive experience selling in the Indonesia market
- Experience of having worked in a global, matrixed sales organization desirable
- Successful history of direct new business sales, with the ability to prove consistent delivery against targets
- Proficient in English and Bahasa Indonesia