Case Study

Customer Description:
• Medium sized privately held VC-backed company
 
Industry:
• Software
 
Business Need:
• Company sales growing at a very aggressive rate, sales processes immature and not scaling with overall company growth
• Company could not afford to slow up existing sales team; either to have them work on the sales operations issues, nor to take their eye off the pipeline of opportunities
 
Key Challenges:
• Sales operations not sufficiently robust and scalable; ‘bursting at the seams’
•CEO came through the sales ranks; runs an opinionated and aggressive culture and not always accepting of new/outside/consultant ideas
 
Strategies/Solution:
• Led the company through some ‘hands on’ best practices excursions, allowing the client to witness firsthand how other large software vendors are managing their sales operations
• Redesigned all sales operations in support of global field sales organization
• Designed and implemented both new hire sales training as well as annual sales meeting