About the Role
Mimecast is seeking a Regional Vice President of UKI to lead the UKI business and be an integral part of the EMEA leadership team. The role owns full accountability for the UKI ARR base and net new ARR performance, driving transformational leadership and management of revenue growth for the United Kingdom and Ireland, enhancing the sales function and scaling the business through double-digit ARR growth.
Responsibilities
- Directly lead a team of 60 sellers across new business and expansion, driving revenue growth through disciplined pipeline management and a high-performance sales culture.
- Indirectly lead a further 60 across channel, customer success and sales engineering to deliver the right outcomes for both Mimecast and its customers.
- Collaborate with all customer-facing and go-to-market functions to ensure customer success.
- Provide leadership for employee experience across customer-facing employees in the UK.
- Provide strategic and operational direction to the UKI sales organisation to meet corporate objectives and maximise sales revenue through partner-driven sales.
- Recruit, lead, mentor and motivate the sales organisation to understand our company mission, vision, strategy and transformation initiatives.
- Create and drive new strategic go-to-market plans to scale to meet our company growth ambitions.
- Act as a strategic thought leader, advisor and partner to the SVP EMEA and the broader senior leadership team at Mimecast.
- Act as a change ambassador for global, EMEA and local business drivers and initiatives.
- Develop depth and rigour in operational cadence, including accurate and accountable forecasting aligned to company goals, creating a culture of understanding, support and coaching for the sales and supporting teams.
- Proactively share and seek best practices from leaders across the global sales organisation.
- Work closely with functions across the organisation to establish and develop strong, collaborative partnerships to ensure continued success.
- Build and maintain C-level relationships with strategic channel partners including Softcat, Bytes, CDW and other key partners, ensuring Mimecast is the preferred cyber security vendor of choice within their portfolios.
Requirements
- 10+ years of sales leadership in a client-facing SaaS sales environment.
- Deep cyber security and channel sales experience are both essential.
- Direct accountability for a significant ARR base and net new ARR targets, with a demonstrable track record of meeting or exceeding both retention and growth commitments at scale.
- Proven track record of building and managing a diverse and multi-functional team of 120+ members across direct and indirect reporting lines.
- Ability to scale a sales organisation in a high-growth software business.
- Ability to create a coaching culture for sales growth.
- Ability to collaborate across a highly matrixed organisation is essential.
- Demonstrated history of leading businesses through significant scale.
- Track record of driving organic growth via net new enterprise logos, renewals and client expansion — including the ability to drive multi-product adoption across a broadening portfolio, increasing wallet share and deepening customer dependency on the platform.
- Equally comfortable defining and executing the distinct motions required across Mid-Market and SMB — recognising that velocity, coverage models and sales plays differ materially from enterprise, and building the right structure, enablement and leadership layer to succeed across all segments.
- Proven ability to develop and implement metrics-driven operational discipline, including a track record of delivering forecast accuracy and pipeline rigour aligned to corporate revenue targets.
- Strategic and action-oriented leader with very strong analytical and financial acumen.
- Proficient in leveraging modern sales intelligence and productivity tools — including Salesforce (SFDC), Gong, and AI-powered platforms such as Claude — to drive pipeline visibility, coaching quality and forecast accuracy.
- Ability to translate data and conversation intelligence into actionable insight across the sales organisation.
- Deep understanding of the modern cyber threat landscape, including the evolution of email-borne threats, ransomware, supply chain attacks, identity compromise and data exfiltration.
- Ability to articulate the business risk and operational challenges customers face in securing a distributed, cloud-first workforce.
- Credible at C-level with CISOs, CIOs and IT leadership, translating technical risk into commercial and reputational consequence.
- The RVP UKI will be a culture carrier — someone who walks into a room and raises the energy, sets the standard and makes people want to follow.
- This is not a role for a manager of the status quo.
- We are looking for a leader who builds teams that want to win — and knows how to create the conditions, the belief and the momentum to make winning a habit.
- Attracts, develops and retains exceptional talent, creating genuine career paths and a culture where the best people choose to stay and grow.
- Leads with authenticity and high expectations in equal measure — holding the bar without losing the human connection that makes great teams great.
- Celebrates success loudly and learns from setbacks quickly, fostering a resilient, growth-oriented mindset across the organisation.
- Creates an environment where diverse perspectives are not just welcomed but actively sought — because the best ideas win, regardless of where they come from.
- The leader of this business needs to reflect that — in ambition, in presence and in the standard they set every day.
Skills
- Cyber security
- Channel sales
- Sales leadership
- Team building
- Scaling sales organisations
- Coaching
- Collaboration
- Strategic planning
- Operational excellence
- Financial acumen
- Salesforce (SFDC)
- Gong
- AI-powered platforms (e.g., Claude)
- Data analysis
- Cyber threat landscape
- C-level relationship building
Location
- UKI
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years sales leadership experience
- Experience leading businesses through significant scale
- Experience driving organic growth
Salary/Compensations
- £280,000 - £420,000 OTE
Benefits
- Eligible for incentive plans
- Additional benefits in accordance with company policy and local regulations
About the Company
- We save companies the embarrassment of awkward data slip ups by disrupting cybercriminal activity.
- We think fast, go big and always demand more.
- We work hard, deliver – and repeat.
- We grow with meaningful determination.
- And put success well within our reach.
- We empower each other, live by our values, and always deliver on our purpose.
- We push each other to be better and expect to be pushed back.
- This is a community of respect.
- Where everyone is counted.
Equal Opportunity
- We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background.
- We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.
- We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.
