The Commercial Director is the senior sales leader for Norway, responsible for commercial strategy, revenue growth, market development, and leadership of the full sales organization and sales-supporting functions.
This role drives sales performance, customer and channel development, pipeline execution, and commercial excellence while building a high-performing sales organization. The position maybe required to fulfil specific Country Manger responsibilities where needed.
Essential Key Responsibilities
- Develop and communicate a compelling vision for Norway, aligned with our global strategy.
- Lead sales, revenue, operating expenses, and profitability; collaborate with Finance to manage and analyze results.
- Implement and refine sales strategies to achieve sustained growth, focusing on strategic customers and partnerships.
- Champion innovation and new product introductions in collaboration with various business lines.
- Drives a strong sales operational cadence across the business including account planning, business reviews, metrics and reporting.
- Sets clear expectations of talent and performance management to measure.
- Coach and develop leaders and team members to maximize engagement and performance.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration to identify market opportunities and challenges.
- Works closely with the marketing function to evaluate market trends and dynamics, competitor activities and customer requirements to keep D&B as a market leader
- Advocate for customer needs in all internal and external interactions.
- Act as the Country Manager where needed for local level communications, Townhalls and signing events.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Essential Skills and/or Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required
- Minimum of 10 years in a senior sales or enterprise level sales or consulting role.
- Minimum of 5 years Leadership experience in a Senior Sales Manager/Director capacity.
- Experience working in a global, matrixed organization, particularly in financial services/data analytics
- Demonstration of original thoughts in Go-to-Market strategic business plan and history of successful implementation and execution against those plans
- Proven success in closing complex strategic sales, winning clients, managing client relationships and exceeding annual quota(s), having revenue growth
- Data-driven with insights that inform customer value propositions