Equifax
Head of Commercial
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The Head of Commercial
The Head of Commercial is a pivotal leadership role responsible for driving revenue growth, retention, and market expansion across a dedicated sales vertical.
What you’ll do
- Team Orchestration: Lead, inspire, and manage a team of sales individuals (Account Directors/Managers) to maximize growth and over-deliver on revenue targets.
- Coaching & Mentorship: Drive a high-performance culture through regular 1:1 and tactical coaching, focusing on skill development in consultative selling and complex negotiations.
- Performance Management: Handle all administrative leadership tasks, performance reviews, and resource planning.
- Talent Pipeline: Identify skill gaps within the team and partner with Sales Enablement to provide appropriate training and development initiatives.
- Pipeline Execution: Drive strong pipeline development and sales execution for the team, ensuring a balanced focus on new business acquisition and the retention of existing contracts.
- Strategy Implementation: Develop and lead the vertical sales strategy, aligning team activities with the broader Equifax "One Company" commercial.
- Salesforce Mastery: Ensure the mandatory and proficient use of Salesforce (SFDC) across the team as the single source of truth.
- Hygiene Standards: Enforce strict adherence to Opportunity Hygiene Standards, ensuring team-wide accuracy in forecasting, close dates, and weighted values.
- Reporting: Provide the Sales Director with transparent, data-driven insights into team performance and market trends.
What experience you need
- Sales Excellence: Demonstrable success in negotiating complex deals (TCV £1m+) and managing high-stakes strategic relationships.
- Knowledge of the Commercial Data Industry and competitive landscape: Awareness of Market Trends & Regulation considerations across Banking & Financial Services.
- Strategic Thinking: In-depth understanding of how to leverage Equifax data and technology assets to solve operational business problems.
- Results-Driven Leader: A focus on accountability and Growth mindset.
- Trusted Advisor: The ability to build immediate rapport and trust with both internal teams and external executive stakeholders.
- Resilience: Thrives in high-pressure environments and can lead a team through ambiguity.
- Leadership Experience: Proven track record of leading sales teams to over-performance, ideally within a Credit Bureau, FinTech, or Data-led organisation.
- Navigating Market Volatility: Maintaining team momentum and retention during complex, long-cycle negotiations in highly competitive or shifting markets.
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What could set you apart
- Bachelor's degree and/or related Sales experience including demonstrated Industry experience at senior levels.
- Able to operate and engage at C-Suite levels both externally and internally.
- Negotiating and closing mid to large complex deals.
- Employing strategic selling techniques and applied consultative sales methods effectively.
- Collaborating effectively with sales & products specialists to leverage their expertise & insights.
While primarily a remote position, this role necessitates travel to our offices and client sites for essential meetings.
The Perks of being a Equifax Employee?
We offer a wide range of company-supported benefits including contributory pension, life cover, income protection, healthcare, enhanced maternity and sick pay, 26 days holiday and a day off for your birthday, with the ability to buy and sell and free credit checks. We also offer flexible benefits ranging from cycle to work, discounted travel options, gym membership, dining and leisure discounts, financial & savings plans, mobile discounts plus much more! We also support personal development and have a range of learning options including our global online learning platform and allow you to bring your whole self to work supported by our Inclusion and Diversity, Wellbeing and Employee Engagement forums.
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Primary Location: GBR-Contract-Home-Based-Remote
Function: Function - Sales and Account Management
Schedule: Full time
At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping employers, employees, financial institutions and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. We work to help create seamless and positive experiences during life’s pivotal moments: applying for jobs or a mortgage, financing an education or buying a car. Our impact is real and to accomplish our goals we focus on nurturing our people for career advancement and their learning and development, supporting our next generation of leaders, maintaining an inclusive and diverse work environment, and regularly engaging and recognizing our employees. Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our employees makes a difference and we are looking for talented team players to join us as we help people live their financial best.
Equifax is an Equal Opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, age, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, service in the Armed Forces, protected veteran status, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status or any other status protected by law.
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