Reports to: Sales Director, Acquisition
Location: Alpharetta (Hybrid)
About the job
Escode, a global leader in software escrow solutions and part of NCC Group, is dedicated to protecting businesses from unforeseen disruptions. We ensure that business critical software applications and source code are safe, secure, and always available. As a trusted intermediary for some of the world’s best-known brands, we safeguard access to vital code and digital assets, ensuring business continuity and the protection of software investments.
With over 40 years of experience, Escode pioneered the software escrow category in 1988, recognizing the growing technology dependence of businesses and the need for a safety mechanism. We are proud to set industry standards and shape its direction, providing unparalleled expertise and reliability. Learn more about Escode: https://www.escode.com/
Role purpose
The primary responsibility of this newly created role is to identify, nurture, and acquire net new logos while driving maximum sales volume of Escode products and services.This role is focused on aggressively pursuing new business opportunities, identifying potential clients, and closing deals to drive revenue growth. In addition to the requirement to deliver exceptional service to the new logo customer base, you will work as part of a team, developing, supporting pod team members, to consistently achieve or exceed targets.
Key accountabilities:
- Hunter -pursing new business opportunities with a focus on winning new clients and deals.
- Persistence – ability to stay self-motivated and continue pursing leads even in the fact of rejection.
- Adaptability - comfortable with change and able to quickly adjust strategies based on the market conditions and/or client feedback
- Resiliency - ability to bounce back from setback and maintain a positive, results-driven attitude
- Effectively researches prospect organisations to understand industry segment, key business drivers, situational or environment factors, and business challenges.
- Develops customised business solutions based on customer needs that effectively articulate and differentiate products value proposition.
- Delivers compelling and thought-provoking presentations that compel new and dormant clients to work with the company.
Skills
We require an individual with proven experience in:
- Business Development – a proven track record in delivering against input and output performance targets in a fast-paced environment.
- Generating new opportunities through brilliant discovery routines to organically expand new logo acquisition.
- Hunter Mentality – relentless in pursuing new business opportunities, with a focus on winning new clients and deals.
- Client Acquisition – ability to identify and pursue key market segments and potential customers for new business opportunities.
- Communication Skills – Actively being able to understand the needs of our clients, influencing effectively, and effective public speaking and communication skills to present ideas and services across email communications and client meetings
- Strategic Planning & Sales Strategy Development – ability to understand market trends and adjust strategies.
- Technology Proficiency - strong Salesforce.com rigor, cadence and stewardship.
- Product Knowledge– deep understanding of Escode products being sold into the market
- Negotiation Skills – ability to effectively manage terms to assist, where applicable, to close deals for pod-team, and ability to quickly address client’s objections and concerns skilfully
- Time Management & Adaptability – efficiently prioritize, plan/organize work schedule for Pod-Team at group level, and flexibility to adjust strategies as needed across areas of role
- Compliance & Ethics – promote ethical behaviour and decision-making across sales pod
Behaviours
- Highly self-motivated, competitive and goal-oriented
- Strong problem-solving abilities and resilience to overcome obstacles
- Results-Driven – focusing on achieving sales targets and celebrating success and learnings from failures to improve
- Collaborative – encouraging teamwork across the pod structure and working effectively with one another to achieve joint targets
- Proactive – anticipating challenges and continuously seeking opportunities for innovation and improvement
- Customer Centric – prioritizing the customer needs and building a long-term relationship that is built on trust
- Adaptability – remaining flexible and open to change in a transforming business, dynamic market and any application regulatory guidelines
About your application
We review every application received and will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we’re looking for. If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles.
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Please note that this role has background clearance as mandatory due to the nature of the work NCC Group does. To apply, you must be willing and able to undergo the vetting process.
Top Skills
What We Do
We assess, develop and manage cyber threats across our increasingly connected society. We advise global technology, manufacturers, financial institutions, critical national infrastructure providers, retailers and governments on the best way to keep businesses, software and personal data safe.
With our knowledge, experience and global footprint, we are best placed to help businesses identify, assess, mitigate & respond to the risks they face.
We are passionate about making the Internet safer and revolutionising the way in which organisations think about cyber security.
Headquartered in Manchester, UK, with over 35 offices across the world, NCC Group employs more than 2,000 people and is a trusted advisor to 15,000 clients worldwide