SVP Sales, Americas

SVP, Sales For The Americas

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating over 260 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners, and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals. A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Reporting to Equinix's Chief Sales Officer, the SVP, Sales for the Americas is responsible for defining the strategic vision, thought leadership, and robust account management for Equinix regional partner and field sales teams. This executive will help accelerate new business and revenue growth and protection of our strategic accounts in key markets. They are responsible for total regional sales performance in the region with a focus on growing enterprise sales. The SVP Sales AMERs will closely engage with clients as well as global Finance, Marketing, Business Development, Technical Sales, Customer Support, and Product organizations in the development of new growth.

Main responsibilities and accountabilities of the role:

• Regional Enterprise Sales Strategy in region
• Lead Equinix's enterprise customer strategy
• Lead the Sales team to maintain legacy customers while also expanding pipeline of new enterprise customers, leveraging tools that improve processes and improve discipline along the way
• Scale impact in leveraging channel: Leverage sell-with, sell-to, and sell-through strategies in channel
• Manage targets: Deliver the region's quarterly and annual revenue objectives; track opportunities, maintain up-to-date account profiles, accurately and consistently forecast business as requested
• Aid Sales execution: Build the bridge from long-term corporate strategy to field execution, ensuring that the entire organization has the direction, information, resources, and support to successfully execute in the field
• Build regional value: Create meaningful competitive differentiation in their market, executing the company's vision, strategy, business model, and business plan in the region
• Build product awareness: Drive brand and feature awareness for products through training and seminars for clients, channel partners, and sales teams
• Define and lead platform sales strategy in regions
• Define strategy: Define and ensure achievement of platform sales strategy, financial performance in the region, and contribution to the company's long-range plan
• Lead organization with platform and solution sales: Transition the organization from selling product to selling platform-based solutions targeting customer segments through IT and business buyers within enterprises across all vertical industries
• Lead a diverse team, creating a culture of coaching to win
• Align cross-functional teams: Align all cross-functional stakeholders through an approach that better enables prospecting, marketing, demand generation, and enterprise solutions selling to enterprise customers
• Shape a collaborative, transparent, and entrepreneurial culture: A culture that embraces coaching and has a strong focus on the growth and development of its team members
• Motivate employees around shared vision and change story in line with Sales transformation
• Knowledge and Experience: Demonstrated track record in enterprise sales
• Experience managing PL