Education Sales Manager

Overview

At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. We are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.

When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you.

From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.

Higher Ed Sales Manager

Our Higher Education Account Executive team is a group of highly driven individuals dedicated to closing experience gaps. Our SaaS platform is used to help some of the largest organizations in the world drive action with pre-built experience management (XM) programs and projects that anyone can use. The sales manager role exists to coach and develop our world class sales organization to reach their fullest potential and drive revenue for Qualtrics.

We need your help to elevate our current employee base and help Qualtrics meet and exceed revenue targets for the SLG organization.

• Takes initiative
• Understands the expected outcome, gets the context, and then works entrepreneurially to get it done.
• Highly communicative and influences effectively, creating trust at the team level.
• Strong track record of exceeding quota.
• Ability to acquire clients
• Strong negotiating skills
• Ability to sell a complex platform:
  Qualtrics Experience Management platform to large, strategic accounts

• Structured promotion process/auto promotion process
• Career Action Planning with Manager
• Qmobility
• Partnerships with world class clients and teammates

• Lead a team of 6-9 Account Executives.
• Coaching direct reports in sales strategy, pipeline management, opportunity management, and career planning/development.
• Recruit, retain, and nurture your team of experienced sales professionals with high potential and strong performance history.
• Provide skill training and mentoring on complex sales motions, including collaboration with legal, product presentations, juggling multiple relationships with internal teams, and quarterly sales forecasting.
• Interface and develop professional relationships with existing clients and prospects throughout at all levels of an organization.
• Display a systemic approach to handling meaningful contract negotiations/deals with multiple reps at a time.
• Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of Qualtrics' solution offerings.
• Maintain a real-time understanding of the competitive landscape to assist in building win-based proposals and pricing.
• Serve as an executive sponsor during enterprise-level deals.
• Maintain a real-time understanding of the competitive landscape to assist in determining win-based proposals and pricing.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with other functional areas internally at Qualtrics, e.g., Professional Services, Implementation, Subject Matter Experts, etc, to ensure a collaborative approach to secure large enterprise engagements.

• A validated winner that has led teams to breakthrough results
• A bachelor’s degree or higher is required
• At least 4-6 years of individual enterprise-level sales experience
• At least two years managing a corporate-level sales team
• Ability to travel up to 50%
• Experience using MEDDIC sales processes
• Experience using  and measuring system compliance
• Experience over-exceeding quarterly team quotas through metric-based skill development and internal team management
• Experience working on complex contract negotiations