Executive Director Enterprise and Commercial Sales - South Africa

Build and maintain a broad executive network inclusive of partners. Accelerating Growth Leverages industry and market expertise, proactively leading teams to identify solutions to drive new opportunities and strategies in alignment with customer needs. Pursues industry of choice to create more strategic relevance and value with customers. Coaches teams to consider global perspectives in best practices in local trade, regulatory, and policy environments across geographic areas. Coaches managers and teams to tailor customer engagement for specific industries with relevant customer references and socializes best practices across their organization. Identifies and creates customer references for landmark successes in one or more strategic industries to develop a competitive advantage and to articulate ability to deliver customer value to achieve outcomes. Leverages experiences and expertise with customers across industry to influence the development of programs that help scale and accelerate successful engagements.Leads and coaches teams on the development and implementation of scalable go-to-market for maximizing revenue, consumption, and growth across solution areas. Shares best practices and holds managers and teams accountable for leveraging market-specific insights and highlighting solutions that solve business and technology challenges. Drives communicating the importance of security, governance, and responsible use of AI as part of enterprise transformation. Acts as a thought leader in optimally leveraging transformation across solution areas. Consults with customers and internal/external Partners to ensure successful and secure value realization in delivery of solutions to customers. Drives and coaches teams to orchestrate across units and Partners to leverage and accelerate innovative transformation opportunities. Coaches managers to ensure internal partners are educated on industry trends and solutions. Develops and shares strategies for expanding relationships across customers' lines of business that enable innovative solutions, deliver business value, and create market growth. Driving Success with and Through Others Fosters and defines a culture of inclusion, learning, mentorship, coaching, customer-centricity, accountability, collaboration, and achievement of bold goals. Influences and inspires managers and teams across the organization to motivate, engage, and bring teams together. Leads a diverse and inclusive workforce, creates and hires diverse teams, and fosters an inclusive working environment via well-established inclusive behaviors. Develops and rewards high-performing individuals and teams, hires diverse talent, prioritizes development, leads by example, and prepares people for more senior positions in other parts of the organization.Builds and maintains a broad executive network inclusive of partners. Inspires and influences engagements between partners and executives on long-term business planning, development of scalable strategic partnerships, and influencing customer needs and outcomes across one or more industries. Ensures teams across their organization maintain relationships with an ongoing long-term focus that looks past quarterly and annual targets. Models and creates a rhythm of business (RoB) with customers and partners that enables continuous engagement and future strategic planning.Leads business planning and alignment beyond fiscal year boundaries across segments, partners, and teams to drive growth and transformation, define expectations for sale execution, and holds teams accountable for results. Defines where orchestration is needed for success, creates new points of entry for integration and collaboration, sets the tone for an organizational culture of inclusion. Shares best practices and a global perspective across the organization for managing competing priorities, reducing complexity for customers, and mitigating execution challenges, while maintaining a high level of accountability....