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Sales Director

At Celestica, we are looking for an experienced and driven Sales Director specialized in Data Center and Campus Solutions. This role is designed for a high-performing sales professional who excels in a focused, individual contributor capacity, with a direct responsibility for driving sales and expanding our footprint in the data center and campus solutions market. They will effectively communicate the value proposition of the Celestica HPS products and services, identify customer needs, and provide appropriate solutions. The ideal candidate will possess deep industry knowledge, a robust network of potential clients, and a proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets through strategic selling. The ideal candidate for this position will support the east coast of the United States.

Responsibilities

• Drives and exceeds revenue and market share in defined target accounts / region.
• Develops and executes on account strategies in partnership with the business development team.
• Establishes long term strategic senior level relationships with customers.
• Identifies influencers and key decision makers within the account establishing and maintaining close relationships with these stakeholders.
• Consistent focus on competitive intelligence.
• Manages customer perceptions and the overall customer relationship process.
• Consistently identifies potential new opportunities and / or solutions with existing or new customers based on deep understanding of needs.
• Participates in proposal creation and influence competitive cost targets, trade-offs, and business cases.
• Collaborates with colleagues (executive, leadership and peers) to develop new products and services for customers.
• Fosters, promotes and facilitates cross-selling of Celestica wide products, services and capabilities.
• Understands how to leverage big data, cloud to create competitive advantage.
• Developing new markets.
• Leverages external partnerships to augment current capabilities and to enhance value proposition and market competitiveness.
• Acts as the customer advocate to ensure that the organization remains customer-focused.
• Delivers quotations and RFQ responses to customers.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Provides high value industry knowledge and consulting to customers on IT technology, architecture, products and services. Specifically positioned to build Celestica's image as a trusted advisor and promote Celestica value proposition and related roadmap portfolio. Knowledgeable on server, storage and network hardware and software ecosystem vendors. Knowledge and experience in consultative selling to OEMs. Extremely strong communication, interpersonal, relationship management and professional sales skills. Strong reporting skills as well as time and priority management skills. Strong strategic planning and execution skills. Strong team management skills and high level of ability to work with others as part of a cross-functional team. Self-starter who has demonstrated the ability to own, define, develop and execute a sales plan and consistently deliver on quarterly revenue targets. Travel required both domestic and internationally 25%-50% (Position is based on the East Coast, US).

Physical Demands

Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment. Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data. Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.

Typical Experience

10-15 years of technology related sales or business development experience. 5- 7 years of sales experience selling Servers, Storage and Networking products and solutions into OEMs.

Typical Education

Technical degree (BSEE, BS Computer Engineering / Computer Science) strongly preferred, consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Salary

$140,000-165,000 USD / year The salary range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including by not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

Location

This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.

Company Overview

Celestica (NYSE, TSX : CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.