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Role Summary

Due to our expansive growth we are seeking an extraordinary business executive to join our team as Group Vice President, Sales for the Central West region on our Enterprise sales team. The GVP will define market tactics to meet annual business goals. . This person will help transform and integrate all GTM functions, evolving an already world-class field operation, while achieving significant revenue growth annually. This individual will play a key role driving a significant share of revenue for Splunk.

What We Offer You:

+ A fast-growing and rapidly changing business and market where you will be challenged and grow.

+ Do you want to make an impact? Can you hire, lead, develop, and inspire the right team to match our growth potential, get involved with strategy, planning, and execution? The work you’ll do will directly impact our future and the how we are viewed in the market and by our customers.

+ . We believe in growing our leaders through ownership, new experiences, and formal and informal education.

+ An open, supportive and collaborative work environment.

What We're Looking For:

+ Success hiring, leading, and developing high performing teams

+ Success adapting and growing in fast-growing and changing environments

+ Success effectively influencing key stakeholders at our customers and inside of Splunk

+ Success orchestrating and aligning decision makers around a common objective

Responsibilities:

+ Lead a team of second line leaders and partner closely with other functional teams.

+ Consistently deliver against targets – ensuring company goals, and objectives are achieved consistently and sustainably.

+ Accurately forecast monthly, quarterly, and annual targets for assigned region.

+ Effectively develop, design, build, and implement all aspects of the Regional business plan to predictably and consistently generate short-term results while holding a long-term perspective of overall results.

+ Unearth customer insights, define value proposition, determine appropriate sales and marketing strategy to increase growth objectives.

+ Maintain market intelligence and develop strategies to maintain the Company’s leadership position.

+ Growth mindset with the ability to outline the long term vision and strategy

+ Provide leadership and oversight to ensure the team leverages and deploys resources efficiently and for the highest impact. Collaborating with sales engineering, channels/alliances, customer success, renewals professional services, product, legal, marketing, and engineering teams to create a seamless customer experience.

Requirements:

+ 10+ years’ experience building and running enterprise sales teams in the software industry

+ 3+ years’ experience as a third line (or fourth line) sales leader

+ Relevant software industry experience in any of the following: IT systems, enterprise or infrastructure management, application development and management, security, business applications and/or analytics. Subscription, SaaS, or Cloud software experience is mandatory.

+ History of consistently meeting/exceeding targets and objectives personally and as a leader.

+ Excellent leadership and influencing skills; ability to build strong business partnerships both outside, and within the organization.

+ Skilled at business planning and diligent at measuring and communicating progress towards the plan, identifying roadblocks, and coming up with appropriate solutions.

+ Highly professional persona and polished demeanor. Strong verbal and written communication skills; effective at delivering executive level presentations.

+ Mastery of Consultative/solution selling methodologies like MEDDPICC, Challenger, Solution Selling, and Sandler

+ Technically strong and accustomed to selling into CIOs, CTOs and Line of Business

OTE Pay Ranges

On Target Earnings: 450,000 - 540,000

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows: .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota; 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%; 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid