Commercial Director; Sales Director), Americas - B2B Subscriptions

New York, United States

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Amid rising geopolitical tension, economic fragmentation, and structural change, organisations face pressure to make high‑stakes decisions with imperfect information. EIU exists to close that gap. As the research and analysis division of The Economist Group, EIU delivers context and foresight beyond data and headlines, helping leaders understand what global developments mean for policy, investment, and resilience. In an era of geopolitical and macroeconomic volatility, governments, multinationals, and financial institutions rely on EIU to navigate political risk, assess exposure, and allocate capital with confidence.

The Regional Commercial Director, Americas is a pivotal leadership role at the heart of EIU’s global growth ambition. This leader will own and accelerate the commercial strategy across the Americas, ensuring EIU’s intelligence reaches the organisations and decision‑makers who need it most.

Operating as a senior member of the global commercial leadership team, the role combines strategic vision, intellectual credibility, and relentless commercial execution. The successful candidate will build, lead, and inspire a high‑performing sales organisation while elevating the sophistication, influence, and impact of EIU’s commercial engagement.

This is a role for a seasoned and ambitious commercial leader, someone energized by complexity, comfortable operating at the intersection of geopolitics, macroeconomics, and decision‑making, with proven experience commercialising data, or API‑based products, and motivated to build something enduring at global scale.

• Responsibility for EIU sales for the Americas, delivering successfully against sales targets for new business, upsell growth, renewals, and retention.
• Define and execute a clear, compelling regional growth strategy, grounded in a deep understanding of geopolitical, macroeconomic, and country‑risk intelligence markets.
• Act as a commercial ambassador for EIU, engaging credibly with C‑suite executives, board‑level stakeholders, policymakers, economists, and senior public‑sector leaders on issues shaped by global political and economic forces.
• Lead and evolve a best‑in‑class regional sales organisation, including talent acquisition, territory design, coaching, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Drive disciplined execution through rigorous sales and account management processes, ensuring full transparency of pipeline, forecasting accuracy, and performance metrics.
• Set and enforce elite standards of outcome‑based selling across the Americas, ensuring teams consistently lead with rigorous client discovery, precise qualification, and a clear linkage between EIU insight and client decision outcomes. Own a deep understanding of leading indicators of success – including discovery quality, deal velocity, win drivers, and sales efficiency – and use these signals to continuously optimise performance, focus effort, and drive predictable, high‑quality growth.
• Share market and customer insights to inform GTM strategies and influence product roadmap.
• Champion a high‑performance, inclusive culture, holding leaders and teams accountable while continuously raising the bar on capability, professionalism, and outcomes.

• 10+ years of senior commercial SaaS leadership experience, ideally within data,…