Regional Director - UK/I Strategic Accounts

Regional Director - UK/I Strategic Accounts

As a Regional Director, UK/I Strategic Accounts on GitLab's Sales team, you'll lead a regional strategic sales organization focused on driving growth across the UK and Ireland. You'll be responsible for building and executing the regional sales strategy, growing existing customer relationships, expanding the client base, and helping your team deliver against revenue goals. You'll work closely with cross-functional partners across Marketing, Customer Success, Ecosystems, and Sales to create a strong customer experience and bring GitLab's value to strategic accounts across the region.

Some examples of our projects:

• Developing and executing regional sales plans that align territory priorities, account growth, forecasting, and team performance to support GitLab's revenue goals
• Building strong relationships with key decision-makers across strategic accounts while coaching a regional sales team to grow pipeline, close complex opportunities, and expand customer value

What you'll do

• Leads and executes best-in-class sales strategies that exceed revenue and growth targets for the team. Ensures the sales team consistently delivers high performance, setting the standard for excellence across the organization
• Develops and executes strategies focused on expanding the client base within the territory
• Maintains close contact with assigned accounts by establishing strong relationships with key decision makers. Develops and maintains a strong executive call plan and relationship with the CXO's & Program level leaders for the account set
• Analyzes market dynamics in an effort to maximize existing successes and to create new sales growth opportunities
• Drives the transformation to a solution-selling approach. Focuses on growing our top-tier client base and positioning our offerings as transformational solutions. Cultivates a mindset that goes beyond product selling to consultative, long-term client partnerships.
• Prioritises customer adoption and consumption. Works directly with customers to ensure that they derive maximum value from our solutions. Support the team in fostering long-term relationships and driving customer success.
• Leads efforts to explore and execute verticalisation as a model for scaling. Provide strong strategic direction for the development of vertical sales teams and specialized market approaches.