DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

 

Our client is currently searching for an exceptional senior level, results-oriented marketing leader to drive all aspects of marketing. Our client director of marketing and serve as a key advisor to executive leadership. Our client is the recognized leader in this unique, fast growth industry with the broadest array of services, national footprint and reputation for unequalled service quality. We need to build on this success with a leader that can develop and execute marketing strategies and campaigns to drive growth. Top line growth is the primary objective and KPI for this role.

The successful candidate must have strategic business planning, leadership and strong analytical skills, with a results-oriented approach and proven track record of business innovation and growth. A passion for building brands and driving demand through customized and powerful marketing efforts, integrated campaigns, content marketing, digital initiatives, social media and new technology is key with experience in the latest social media marketing and content and brand marketing across multiple channels an absolute requirement for this position.

 RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Exceed growth targets as assigned.
  • Develop and execute marketing strategy and campaigns across all channels, markets and services.
  • Develop and execute demand generation strategy and programs for new business, existing accounts, service offerings and acquired companies to significantly drive new, qualified leads for sales.
  • Analyze markets, revenue streams, clients and channels through analytical models to develop and execute go-to-market strategies that optimize our growth, marketing resources and spend.
  • Develop and execute marketing strategies that connect to local government and community needs with tactics that align with government budgeting and procurement cycles.
  • Advise the Chief Revenue Officer and executive leadership team on how to grow the company, position and brand competitively, latest marketing technologies and trends and staying agile and innovative.
  • Build and lead a diverse team of marketing talent across content management, digital-social media, inside sales, proposal management and marketing communications to achieve our growth objectives.
  • Attract and inspire top marketing talent to and foster an innovative culture across the firm.
  • Budget and optimize marketing spend across all channels to maximize ROI/ROAS and achieve brand awareness, sales, revenue and profitability goals.
  • Drive branding efforts nationally, across all companies, and manage all aspects of public relations.
  • Develop customer feedback cycles, survey and focus groups to better understand customer needs and drive demand through related efforts.
  • Make decisions based upon precedent and solve arising problems using sound judgment and experience.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by management.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Positive, high-energy, growth-centric marketing professional
  • 10+ years in marketing with experience across diverse functions in multi-channel, business to business services with a proven track record of revenue growth in prior positions
  • 3+ years of leadership experience in marketing at a Director or VP level; experience in both a large recognized national company and small to medium size privately held firms is a plus
  • Direct experience and deep understanding of digital-social media marketing and content development best practices
  • Direct experience and deep understanding marketing business to business services; outsourcing and marketing to local communities and government is a plus
  • Advanced analytical skills with talent for interpreting trends and data to make informed, data-based recommendations
  • Experience speaking at industry conferences to establish company as thought leader, and to solicit and nurture leads, while solidifying relationships with existing clients.

LOCATION: Colorado

If you are interested in this opportunity, please let me know!

Larry Janis

Managing Partner I Integrated Search Solutions Group

P-516-767-3030 I C-516-445-2377

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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE (BDR) – GOVERNMENT SALES

Our client is currently searching for an exceptional senior level sales executive to join our team to sell outsourced community development services to municipal government.  Our client is the recognized leader in this unique, fast growth industry with the broadest array of services, national footprint and reputation for unequalled service quality.  You will be responsible for generating sales and profitable revenue through new logo contracts and up selling your existing clients on new services by leading all aspects of the end-to-end sales process.

Responsibilities:

  • Exceed sales and revenue targets as assigned.
  • Develop a regional sales plan that results in a healthy, qualified pipeline, high win rates, large deals sold and expanding client relationships.
  • Build your qualified pipeline of new logo opportunities by prospecting, networking across municipalities, building department openings, utilizing trade organizations, advisors and 3rd party partners.
  • Develop trusted relationships with client leaders that have meaningful impact to their communities and achieve maximum potential for each account.
  • Establish our client and yourself as a credible, trusted advisor on community development services.
  • Execute successful sales strategies, techniques and best practices to optimize our win-rates & deals sold.
  • Create and present market and competitively differentiated solutions that can profitably deliver and support by working closely with operations and all departments.
  • Prepare and respond to all target account requests for proposals, company information, and presentations on the company’s capabilities in a manner that distinguishes our client from competition.
  • Successfully transition new logo client’s to operations for effective client service delivery.
  • Provide feedback to management to improve the success of sales, solutions, pricing and go to market.
  • Maintain sales and client databases and provide reporting and forecasting as required.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by management.

 QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Positive, high-energy hunter mentality
  • 10+ years of professional, new logo consultative sales experience in complex business to government or business to business – track-record of consistent success with deal list of large deals sold
  • Deep experience and highly effective in complex, relationship-based outsourcing sales that can have long sales cycles (12+ months) and well-rounded in all aspects of sales methodology and best practices
  • Municipal (City / County) government experience and deep network of contacts, politically connected and solid understanding of jurisdictional environments including the decision-making process, political dynamics, municipal structure, and building department operations is a plus.Knowledge of construction, building / community development work and industry (from planning & zoning, engineering, plan reviews, inspections, code enforcement for residential and commercial) a plus
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships and build trust with employees, professionals, clients, outside agencies and the public.  Strong team player.
  • Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing for effective presentations and proposals
  • Characterized as highly resourceful, innovative, proactive with highest integrity
  • 30 – 50% travel required – primarily within region; primarily work from home office
  • Proficient personal computer skills, including MS Office, SalesForce
  • Bachelor’s Degree or higher, preferably in business, operations, public admin, construction, economics

COMPENSATION:  Competitive salary, excellent commission and bonus plan, plus company vehicle.  Comprehensive benefit package (medical, dental, life insurance, 401K with match)

LOCATIONS:  Primarily WA, CA, Midwest (MI/OH/IL), Southeast (GA, TN, Carolina’s).

Please let me know if you could be interested or might know someone who might be.

Thank you.

Larry Janis Managing Partner I Integrated Search Solutions Group

P-516-767-3030 I C-516-445-2377

E-janis@issg.net

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Manager Global Business Services Outsourcing & Shared Service

Manager: Global Business Services Outsourcing & Shared Services (Consulting)

Leading businesses are now using Global Business Services (GBS) to create alignment among their business units. Instead of operating numerous shared service centers and managing outsourcing vendors separately, organizations can integrate governance, locations, and business practices across the enterprise to achieve transformative performance improvements. In this way, GBS serves as a single enterprise organization or network that can drive collaboration and sharing to improve delivery efficiency, effectiveness, and business outcomes.

You along with dynamic colleagues will work closely with executives to consider how an outsourcing or shared services operating model aligns with their business strategy. As a Manager, you will lead and deliver large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies.

Manager level responsibilities include: providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.  You will be expected to implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.  Managers participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities. You will have the opportunity to lead small engagements or components of large, complex engagements. Continue reading

Sr. Manager: Global Business Services- Outsourcing & Shared Services

 

Achieve the next level of Performance!  Leading businesses are now using Global Business Services (GBS) to create alignment among their business units. Instead of operating numerous shared service centers and managing outsourcing vendors separately, organizations can integrate governance, locations, and business practices across the enterprise to achieve transformative performance improvements. In this way, GBS serves as a single enterprise organization or network that can drive collaboration and sharing to improve delivery efficiency, effectiveness, and business outcomes.

Work you’ll do

You along with dynamic colleagues will help organizations create a single enterprise organization or network of Shared Services and Outsourcing relationships.  As a Senior Manager, you are expected to contribute to the firm’s growth and development in a variety of ways.  You will be responsible for engagement management: Lead engagement planning  and budgeting; mobilize and manage engagement teams; define deliverable structure and content; facilitate buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at the client; direct on-time,  quality delivery of work products; manage engagement economics; manage engagement risk.  Senior Managers manage day to day interaction with executive clients and sponsors.  You will be expected to participate in Business Development, develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients; organize and lead pursuit teams; participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies.  Senior Managers must contribute to Practice Development & Eminence:  Develop practical solutions and methodologies; develop “thoughtware” and “point- of-view” documents; participate in public speaking events; get published in industry periodicals.  We invest in our people, as a Senior Manager you will be responsible for people development, performing the role of counselor and coach; provide input and guidance into the staffing process; actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities; provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices.

 

Qualifications

Required:

  • A minimum of 10+ years consulting and/or industry experience is required
  • Must have subject matter expertise and project experiences in Shared Services, Outsourcing and/or Offshoring industry, or multiple back-office functional optimization
  • Shared Services Feasibility Assessments, Implementations, and Optimization
  • Ability to analyze and apply outsourcing trends
  • Practical experience with the full lifecycle of functional optimization, BPO and/or shared services programs
  • Core vs. Non-Core Assessments
  • Understanding of vendor landscape
  • Ability to interact at all levels of the client organization
  • Business Development and Delivery experience
  • Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred:

  • RPA experience
  • Ability to work independently, manage small engagements or parts of large engagements
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
  • Willingness to mentor junior staff
  • An advanced degree is preferred

If this opportunity sound like a great fit, please reach out to:

Larry Janis, Managing Partner, janis@issg.net

or

Jeff Bruckner, Partner, bruckner@issg.net

 

innovative IT solutions sales

 

Sales Leader

Our client is a leading national provider of innovative IT solutions and services to Global 2000 and mid-size companies. Partnered with the top-tier technology providers, our clients unique solution-based methodology, combined with our experience and expertise, has enabled thousands of industry-leading organizations to effectively address their business needs, optimize the returns on their IT investments, mitigate risk, and focus on growth and profitability.

Summary
Senior level sales executive focused on new logo acquisition. Responsible for identifying and driving sales opportunities to closure; increasingly selling a mix of defined solutions/extensions and new offerings or products into white space; wide range of service group offerings and deal structures. Must develop strong relationships with key senior (Divisional head/C-Suite) client buyers and drive client decision-making spanning multiple layers of the organization
Responsibilities:
• Create, identify and drive business development opportunities with new logo clients and potentially expand existing client relationships
• Work with and sell to C-level and senior level management
• Develop trusted relationships, share insights that have meaningful impact to the customer’s business while positioning the company’s solutions to address business challenges.
• Articulate and present the cost justification/risk mitigation related to the company’s solutions
• Create differentiation, educate the customer on potential solutions and influence the decision making process.
• Build excellent client relationships offering value-added, insightful and strategic input to their business strategies

Job Requirements:
• 10+ years of proven IT products and services selling experience, preferably , data center and end-user computing focus, technical solution architecture, managed services in the areas of network operations and security operations, cybersecurity services, “virtualization”, , , transition to the cloud and/or disruptive technology products/services
• Experience serving as sales executive with demonstrated ability to integrate sales strategies with company-wide growth programs, new strategic initiatives and “out-of-the-box” thinking to achieve growth targets in excess of industry averages
• Record of consistently outperforming program budget targets, sales quotas and margin targets after controllable expenses; achievement driven; highly competitive, team focused
• Proven track record of contract signings, demonstrated ability to shape the deal from the onset
• Background in consultative selling
• Proficiency in account planning and understanding of territory management
• Ability to understand enterprise-wide issues and to structure innovative, integrated solutions that provide complex decision support to global organizations
• Demonstrated experience teaming with technologists in a sales environment
• Experience in the financial engineering aspects of deal development and pricing models
• Experience “hunting” and closing complex, multi-year IT managed services transactions
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Demonstrated good judgment and initiative in problem solving
• Experience working with and selling to large enterprises (F500)
• Expertise in enterprise IT products or services
• Strong interpersonal and influence skills to cultivate relationships, facilitate negotiations, and build partnerships with customers as well as key stakeholders
• Ability to use own judgment and initiative in problem resolution
• Outgoing and confident personality, exudes trust and leadership to customers and team alike, self- assured and creative

Locations
Dallas, Chicago, New York

Compensation
Attractive base compensation and incentive plan

Please let us know if you could be interested or might know someone who might be. Thank you.
Jeff Bruckner I Partner
P-973-761-5613
E-bruckner@issg.net

Larry Janis I Managing Partner I Integrated Search Solutions Group
P-516-767-3030
E-janis@issg.net
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