VP of Business Development

London
Sales

Get to Know Us

iDeals is a global B2B SaaS product company recognized as the most highly rated and customer-centric in a secure business collaboration market. Trusted by more than 1,000,000 users from 175,000 companies globally, we are on a mission to create more prosperity in the world by accelerating high-stake business decisions. We achieve this by delivering extremely intuitive and robust software products that help people make impactful decisions with less stress, higher quality, and shorter hours:

iDeals Virtual Data Room: A web-based cloud platform used by companies in a wide range of industries to ensure secure confidential document sharing for online due diligence, fundraising transactions, corporate reporting, licensing, clinical trials, and other business goals.

iDeals Board: A cloud platform with web and mobile applications used by board members, CEOs, executives, and corporate secretaries, to streamline governance and improve high-stake decisions in a fast, secure, and compliant way.

The Role

The business development team plays an important role in the company’s lasting success in delivering an exceptional buying experience to our clients. Currently, we are looking for a senior executive to lead the team of rock-star salespeople and to ensure that iDeals is the first-choice VDR provider for an even bigger number of clients. This is a fully remote London-based position.

This role reports directly to the Chief Revenue Officer. You can expect to shape and execute the company’s strategic growth initiatives, fostering key partnerships and driving revenue expansion. This role is a perfect fit for a seasoned leader who wants to make an impact by leveraging their extensive industry network and driving transformative business opportunities. With us, you will work with the latest technologies, leading a high-performing team to explore untapped markets and deliver cutting-edge solutions that revolutionize our industry.

Our ideal candidate is passionate about value-based selling, focused on delivering the best on-the-market buying experience, enjoys driving people to perform at their best through coaching and teaching, understands the sales metrics, knows how to influence them, and can strategize.

It is a unique opportunity to build an exceptional track record in a multinational hyper-growth environment and to help attain $100M in revenue in the next 5 years. A strong sales leader is critical to driving our continued growth, and ensuring the best on-the-market buying experience, while also growing and maintaining a collaborative and inspiring sales team.

What You Will Do

  • Lead a team of field sales professionals directly and through the directors
  • Manage business development metrics and drive functional outcomes
  • Recruit experienced leaders for each functional role
  • Attract high-potential individual contributors and scale by 100 employees across field sales teams
  • Own a rapid onboarding process for new team members
  • Foster collaboration within the team and across the customer lifecycle
  • Encourage continuous learning & development within the team
  • Mentoring and coaching your team to meet personal and business goals
  • Drive the performance appraisal process for the team
  • Define operational metrics for the team
  • Grow revenue by $100M in the next 5 years through implementing the best sales and negotiation practices
  • Expose a subset of metrics to the executive team, company, and board
  • Align with marketing, product, customer success, finance, and executive teams around objectives
  • Cultivate new business and develop partnerships
  • Support closure of strategic deals and nurturing partnerships to ensure both immediate and long-term success
  • Lead by example in setting team vision, interacting with customers, managing deals, participating in company leadership forums, and attending industry events that demonstrate our values
  • Learn from best practices in the industry
  • Keeping up to date on markets, segments, customers, emerging markets, market shifts, new products, competition status, external forces and feeding insights into planning
  • Representing the company at industry events
  • What We Look For

  • 20 years of hands-on experience in new business development sales
  • At least 10 years of outbound sales managerial experience
  • Experience with managing high-velocity and volume sales strategy
  • Professional sales background within the B2B SaaS industry
  • Solid experience in system transactional sales, sales methodology, and techniques, sales and negotiation practices
  • Experience selling in more than one geographic area
  • Experience hiring, motivating, coaching, and developing teams
  • Profound leadership skills with a passion for talent growth and building high-performing collaborative teams
  • Experienced in managing at least 70+ employees across field sales teams
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Self-motivated, with high energy and an engaging level of enthusiasm
  • Driven to deliver the best customer experience
  • A strong advantage of experience in financial or consulting fields, understanding M&A
  • What We Offer

    Our people mean a great deal to us, so we will provide you with the benefits, resources, and support you need to succeed.

    For your work

  • Remote-first model with teams distributed globally 
  • Home office set up budget 
  • High-end laptop, monitor, and any additional IT equipment needed
  • Reimbursement of co-working space expenses
  • For your well-being

  • Medical insurance with flexible coverage
  • Compensation for sports, yoga, mental, and other health and wellness-related activities
  • Reimbursement of participation in sports competitions
  • 25 business days of paid time off per year
  • Unlimited health-related time-off
  • NEST pension program
  • For your growth

  • Individual Development Plan based on your career interests 
  • Unlimited budget for learning and development activities
  • Professional and self-development books and subscriptions compensation
  • Sponsorship of inspirational events, conferences, and meetups attendance
  • iDeals’ support of your passion as a speaker or writer
  • Internal growth and internal mobility policies
  • Extra perks

  • Competitive compensation with short and long-term incentive plan
  • Regular off-site company retreats 
  • Team-building budgets for local meetups
  • Monthly Pizza Fridays at global office locations
  • Generous internal referral program
  • iDeals Surprise Boxes from the People Experience Team
  • Our Culture

    Commitment, Excellence, Collaboration, Trust, and Care are core values to the iDeals team. For us, these are the principles that every iDealer lives and breathes. We are on the lookout for like-minded individuals who share our values. By doing so, we are able to create a team where talents feel at ease and are able to work to the best of their abilities.

    Commitment and Excellence inspire us to set the bar high, achieve the most ambitious goals and push the limits further. Our diversity and different perspectives are the foundation of our success. Collaboration and Trust ensure that everyone has access to all the information, proactively shares thoughts, and leverages the teammates’ diverse opinions, experiences, and backgrounds. Both values help us to solve the most challenging problems. Care drives us to create a positive work environment and make everyone feel valued. We also stand for iDealers’ physical, mental, financial, and personal well-being and encourage a healthy lifestyle and active living.

    iDealers work in a remote-first model, meaning we collaborate from anywhere – either home, cafe, co-working space, or one of our offices. Some roles may have specific location-based requirements, including in-office and client interactions. Despite being located across the globe, we stay connected through the latest tools and technologies, ensuring that everyone on our team feels surrounded by teammates and engaged with our common goals.

    iDeals is an equal opportunity employer

    iDeals is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people from all walks of life. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship.

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