Lightspeed DMS
Sales Executive - Marine
About this role
Company Overview: Lightspeed is the leading provider of cloud-based software for dealerships, serving the Powersport, Marine, RV, Trailer, and Golf Car industries adding hundreds of dealerships to the Lightspeed community each year. Lightspeed’s Dealer Management Solution (DMS) enables dealerships to optimize their end-to-end business operations, including Sales, Parts, Service, Rentals, Payments, Accounting, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). When implemented into their daily operations, Lightspeed helps dealers increase their profitability by selling more units, service, and parts, all while creating a more streamlined experience for customers. Lightspeed is the most complete and integrated DMS in the industry with over 500 integrations with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), aftermarket parts and accessory distributors and dozens of other software tools that a dealership may use to run their business. Uniquely designed by dealers for dealers, and refined over the past 4 decades, Lightspeed empowers over 4,500+ dealers across North America with the tools and technology they need to manage their dealerships. This role centers on generating new business opportunities with dealerships in the Marine industry. You will be responsible for identifying, pursuing and securing new business with customers. A significant portion of your time will be dedicated to prospecting in the United States sales territory. This position requires a strategic focus on building relationships, engaging with customers and closing sales.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute territory-specific plans to expand Lightspeeds customer base. This includes a deep understanding of customer needs, our suite of offerings and effectively closing deals.
- Generate leads and guide prospects through the sales funnel to further qualify the prospects' needs and determine a good fit with Lightspeed’s solutions. Engage with new customers through a variety of channels including inbound leads, networking and social media.
- Collaborate with internal teams such as Customer Success and Marketing to ensure a cohesive customer experience.
- Maintain a deep understanding of our Products, competitive advantages, industry trends, market activities, and competitors to identify opportunities and foresee challenges.
- Maintain and report sales metrics to leadership, ensuring that data within our Sales Automation and Customer Relationship Management tool, Salesforce, is current and accurate.
- Proven ability to blend strong sales talents and process discipline, relationship-building abilities, and technical knowledge to achieve sales targets and expand market share. What you'll have:
- 5+ years’ experience in B2B sales, preferably selling SaaS based solutions in the field.
- Experience with new customer, new logo acquisition.
- Proven sales record in quota carrying roles managing a pipeline as an individual contributor and exceeding sales quotas