Sales Director - Remote Eligible

Sales Leader

As our customers look for opportunity in a world of rapid change and technology disruption, they trust Celestica to deliver the most advanced design, engineering and manufacturing expertise for their highly sophisticated and complex electronics and related products. At Celestica, you have the opportunity to shape your career among an inclusive, diverse group of experienced employees and talented newcomers working around the globe. As a Sales leader at Celestica, you will have the exciting opportunity to help drive the growth and shape the future of the collaborative, high performance, growth-oriented business unit, Connectivity and Cloud Solutions (CCS) segment. You will drive revenue, solutions adoption, and market penetration through your knowledge of IT infrastructure, architecture and products and sales ability. This is a remote position in the USA with significant travel to Europe.

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Drives and exceeds revenue and market share in defined target accounts or end market vertical
• Develops and executes on target or account strategies in partnership with the business development team
• Establishes long term strategic executive level relationships with customers.
• Identifies influencers and key decision makers within the account establishing and maintaining close relationships with these stakeholders, including engineering
• Consistently identifies potential new opportunities and/or solutions with existing or new customers based on deep understanding of needs
• Participates in proposal creation and influences competitive cost targets, trade-offs, and business cases
• Able to understand financial models and create
• Understands how to leverage big data, cloud to create competitive advantage; consistent focus on competitive intelligence and marketing positioning
• Manages customer perceptions and the overall customer relationship process.
• Collaborates with colleagues (executive, leadership and peers) to develop new solutions or services for customers.
• Fosters, promotes and facilitates cross-selling of Celestica wide products, services and capabilities
• Develops new markets
• Leverages external partnerships to augment current capabilities and to enhance value proposition and market competitiveness
• Acts as the customer advocate to ensure that the organization remains customer-focused.
• Delivers quotations and proposal responses to customers to achieve or exceed strategic sales and market quotas

Provides high value industry knowledge and consulting to customers on IT technology, architecture, products and services. Specifically positioned to build Celestica's image as trusted advisor and promote Celestica value proposition and related roadmap portfolio. Knowledgeable on server, storage and network hardware and software ecosystem vendors. Knowledge and experience in consultative selling to OEMs. Extremely strong communication, interpersonal, relationship management and professional sales skills. Strong reporting skills as well as time and priority management skills. Strong strategic planning and execution skills. Strong team management skills and high level of ability to work with others as part of a cross-functional team. Self-starter who has demonstrated the ability to own, define, develop and execute a sales plan and consistently deliver on quarterly revenue targets. Travel required both domestic and internationally 50-70%.

Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment. Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data. Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required. Overnight travel is required.

10-15 years of technology related sales and business development experience in the European region. 5- 7 years of sales experience selling custom Servers, Storage and Networking products and solutions into large customer organizations, primarily in the European geographic area. Sales experience with advanced Technology solutions for ML/AI liquid cooled racks a plus. Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Celstica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws. At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process.

Celstica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.