Sales Director, Meetings and Events Technology
Overview
We are seeking a talented, dedicated, and experienced sales professional with a proven track record in the Meeting & Event and travel/hospitality industry ecosystem including M&E agencies, hotel/supplier networks, and technology providers.
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Onyx has developed a first to market, purpose-built meeting & event platform to reconcile final spend and distribute/claim commission payments driving material efficiencies for hotels and agencies and an impactful ROI! With the addition of new (VAT compliant) invoicing capabilities, Onyx is executing an aggressive go-to-market campaign in the US and we are excited to add sales resources to help drive our growth targeting hoteliers and meeting and events agencies.
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The Sales Director - Meeting & Events is responsible for targeting our existing strategic accounts, securing new customers, and will actively participate in the development of our go-to market strategy for our GroupPay service.
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Location
Remote US
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Scope
US
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Education
Minimum required: Bachelorβs Degree
Preferred: Masterβs Degree
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Span of Control:
Reports to: VP of Global Sales
Oversight: This position has no direct reports
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Roles/ Responsibilities
- Achieve assigned sales targets, primarily with new logo accounts and share of wallet expansion, within an assigned market segment (e.g. named-account list, sector or vertical)
- Lead the entire sales/buying process, including market segment planning, target identification, solution development/presentation, opportunity management, negotiations and close
- Participate and influence the go-to-market strategy for our new GroupPay service
- Based on market feedback, refine personas, target audiences, and product position with the Commercial and Product leadership
- Develop & execute market segment (e.g. Territory) plan
- Be an active and public presence in the Meeting & Events industry within the US; including tradeshow and localized events as well as virtual events and social media
- Generate new leads and opportunities, while working to further qualify and close leads sourced by marketing and/or our dedicated lead generation team
- Target strategic accounts in the industry, maintain a pipeline of active opportunities to achieve sales target, manage opportunities to closure, and strategically orchestrate resources both internally and externally throughout the sales process
- Accurately capture and report all aspects of account and opportunity information within our sales force automation (SFA) system (Salesforce)
- Accurately report on forecast/pipeline
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Qualifications
Minimum required:
- Five (5) plus years of sales-related experience, preferred in a new business sales role
- Three (3) plus years of experience in meetings and events, including but not limited to current M&E technologies, hotel sourcing and contracting, commission collection, and financial reconciliation.
- Experience with a CRM
- English fluency
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Preferred:
- One to three (1-3) years of relevant industry or product-facing experience
- Multi-lingual candidates with fluency highly valued
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Teamwork/Leadership/interpersonal Skills:
- Achievement/goal oriented
- Competitive
- Entrepreneurial (risk-taker)
- Energetic
- Self-motivated, disciplined, accountable
- Self-aware
- Empathetic
- Disciplined
- Personable
- Desire for continuous improvement
- Ethical
- Responsive
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Organizational Interlocks
This position will work closely with internal and external stakeholders
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Physical Demands/ Travel required
Work associated with this position is sedentary in nature and performed indoors at a desk either remotely or in an office setting.
Travel for this position is 30%
This position is hybrid in office and remote.