About the Role
Zip is seeking a dynamic and driven Director of Strategic Enterprise Sales to lead teams focused on delivering high-impact results through strategic, value-based cycles. This role requires expertise in building and leading sales teams, consistently achieving quotas, and possessing a strong background in complex sales motions with large F500 organizations. You will collaborate closely with C-level executives, actively participate in client meetings, craft deal progression strategies, and provide proactive coaching.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of direct Sales Executives to achieve aggressive new business and expansion sales targets in the region.
- Evolve and execute a comprehensive sales strategy in collaboration with cross-functional resources to effectively penetrate the market, analyze competition, and consistently overperform.
- Cultivate strong partnerships with Business Development, Solution Consulting, Advisory, Marketing, our Partner network, and the Zip Executive team.
- Recruit, coach, and mentor team members to foster a culture of consistent performance and continuous improvement.
- Accurately report and forecast pipeline and performance to the business.
- Participate strategically in C-level meetings to gain insight into customer requirements and effectively map Zip’s solutions to high-impact business pain.
- Achieve quarterly and annual sales targets, contributing significantly to overall revenue goals.
- Deliver world-class client experiences to maintain and grow the client base through non-sales-related outreach.
Requirements
- Proven history of consistent overperformance.
- Demonstrated success in recruiting, coaching, and managing outstanding sales teams.
- Strong bias to action to implement strategies to continue Zip’s trajectory as a generational organization.
- Maintain a high standard for operational excellence across your team.
- Adept at building enduring relationships with Sr. Level Executives.
- Adaptable and effective in fast-paced and rapidly growing environments.
- Identifies, coaches, and promotes top performers and is relentless in development by providing actionable feedback.
- Strengthen partner relationships to build pipeline channels and territory development.
- 5-8+ years of relevant work experience with emphasis on revenue, sales, and sales leadership.
- Proven track record of scaling sales teams and attaining sales targets.
- Proven track record and experience in increasing sales efficiency and productivity across a dynamic team with rigorous business process optimization, sales incentives structure/KPI design, and performance tracking.
- Motivated self-starter who can establish a course of action for self and others and drive initiatives to completion.
- Experience operating in hyper-growth and fast scaling go-to-market environments.
Skills
- Enterprise value-based selling
- Sales leadership
- Complex sales motions
- Customer relationship management
- Customer-first mindset
- Sales strategy development
- Pipeline forecasting
- Revenue generation
- Team management
- Performance coaching
- Business process optimization
- Sales incentives structure/KPI design
- Performance tracking
- Selling to procurement
- Selling to finance
- Selling to IT
- Selling to legal
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
- 5-8+ years of relevant work experience
Benefits
- Start-up equity
- Health, vision & dental coverage
- Commuter benefit
- Team building events & happy hours
- Flexible PTO
- Apple equipment plus home office budget
About the Company
- Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement — built for humans and agents working together.
- By orchestrating procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers with the help of AI agents, companies can secure the resources they need to innovate faster than ever before.
- The world’s most influential enterprises trust Zip, including T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, Dollar Tree, and more.
- Together they’ve saved over $8 billion and processed over $500 billion in spend.
- Zip’s team includes product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, as well as former procurement leaders from United Health, Sanofi, MGM Resorts, Discover, and NASA.
- Backed by Adams Street, Alkeon, BOND, CRV, DST, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, Zip has raised $371 million, most recently at a $2.2 billion valuation and has been recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Best in Business, and LinkedIn Top Startups.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong.
