Commercial Director, Norway
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The Commercial Director is the senior sales leader for Norway, responsible for commercial strategy, revenue growth, market development, and leadership of the full sales organization and sales-supporting functions.
This role drives sales performance, customer and channel development, pipeline execution, and commercial excellence while building a high-performing sales organization. The position maybe required to fulfil specific Country Manger responsibilities where needed.
Essential Key Responsibilities
- Develop and communicate a compelling vision for Norway, aligned with our global strategy.
- Lead sales, revenue, operating expenses, and profitability; collaborate with Finance to manage and analyze results.
- Implement and refine sales strategies to achieve sustained growth, focusing on strategic customers and partnerships.
- Champion innovation and new product introductions in collaboration with various business lines.
- Drives a strong sales operational cadence across the business including account planning, business reviews, metrics and reporting.
- Sets clear expectations of talent and performance management to measure.
- Coach and develop leaders and team members to maximize engagement and performance.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration to identify market opportunities and challenges.
- Works closely with the marketing function to evaluate market trends and dynamics, competitor activities and customer requirements to keep D&B as a market leader
- Advocate for customer needs in all internal and external interactions.
- Act as the Country Manager where needed for local level communications, Townhalls and signing events.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Essential Skills and/or Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required
- Minimum of 10 years in a senior sales or enterprise level sales or consulting role.
- Minimum of 5 years Leadership experience in a Senior Sales Manager/Director capacity.
- Experience working in a global, matrixed organization, particularly in financial services/data analytics
- Demonstration of original thoughts in Go-to-Market strategic business plan and history of successful implementation and execution against those plans
- Proven success in closing complex strategic sales, winning clients, managing client relationships and exceeding annual quota(s), having revenue growth
- Data-driven with insights that inform customer value propositions
Why Join Us?
Does this role sound like a great opportunity but you’re not sure about making a move? We are really proud of our company and culture and think we have some great things to offer. Some of our benefits in Norway include:
· Beautiful modern office in central Oslo with frequent social events
· 25 days holiday per year plus 5 extra days off at Christmas and Easter
· Two paid volunteer days to contribute to causes in your community
· Sponsored gym membership (up to 250kr per month)
· Free group training two days a week with personal trainer
· Free use of training facilities at the office
· Access to company cabin
· Canteen with discounted lunch prices
· A focus on a healthy work life balance with access to great health insurance and pension
· Access to free services providing support and counselling
· Flexible working and hybrid working arrangements for most roles
Whilst some roles do have certain requirements which are essential, we try to focus on hiring based on potential rather than CV as much as possible. If you are unsure you fully meet the requirements, we would still love to hear from you! Please note that all CVs must be submitted in English.
All Dun & Bradstreet job postings can be found at . Official communication from Dun & Bradstreet will come from an email address ending in @dnb.com.
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Resume/CV, Full name, Pronouns, Email, Phone, Current location, Current company, LinkedIn URL, GitHub URL, Portfolio URL, Twitter URL, Other website
Short answers (3)
- If you have a family member or relative currently employed by Dun & Bradstreet, please list their name(s): optional
- If you were referred by a Dun & Bradstreet employee, please list their name: optional
- If you have been employed by KPMG, please share your functional area(s) and approximate dates of employment. optional
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- Do you have any non-compete, non-solicitation, confidentiality, or other agreement(s) that may limit your ability to perform the duties of the position for which you are applying?
- Are you a current or previous employee of Dun & Bradstreet?
- Do you have a family member or relative who is currently employed by Dun & Bradstreet?
- Did a current Dun & Bradstreet employee influence you to apply or refer you to the company/role?
- Do you have full work proficiency in English?
- Do you have full work proficiency in Norwegian?
- Do you have a permanent residency or valid work permit for this role?
- Do you have work proficiency in another Nordic language? optional
- If successful, I will be subject to verification checks relating to my education, previous employment, and publicly available data in accordance with the D&B Candidate Privacy Notice and local legislation: https://bit.ly/3IHSTMd. optional
- I am willing and able to work a hybrid schedule at the office location listed in this job posting.
- Are you a current or former employee of KPMG?
Written answers (1)
- What made you interested in this role? A sentence or two is what we are looking for.
Attachments (1)
- If you answered "Yes," and have a copy available, you are welcome to upload the agreement or relevant pages here. This is optional and may help us assess any potential employment restrictions more efficiently. optional