International Sales Director

We are looking for a highly experienced professional who will manage IT solutions sales dedicated to the world’s educational market. The new Sales Director will lead the team of sales professionals and report directly to the Managing Director of Young Digital Planet and will be a member of YDP Management Team.

Job description:

• Define and execute commercial strategy

• Define and deliver short term execution plans in sales

• Monitor and analyze market data and trends to identify new market opportunities and plan appropriate actions for sales team

• Actively cooperate with other company’s departments to develop business plans and marketing strategy which shall be consistent with the Company’s Strategy

• Manage a sales team, including active support of sales managers during sales cycle, including negotiations and deal closing, if necessary

• Monitor projects in progress and execute sales agreements

Profile:

• University degree in Business Management or related degree

• At least 10 years of experience in a commercial field on the international market, preferably in a B2B e-commerce and/or education

• Proven excellent peoples’ management skills and experience as a manager

• Striving to achieve excellent results

• Flexible and open to challenges

• Strong relationship builder at all levels of the organization, pro-active, challenging and a real team player

• Experience with working in an international environment

• Fluent in English, written and verbal, other languages would be a plus

• Meeting our ‘Sanoma values’: Engage Others, Share Views, Look Ahead and Make it Happen