Sales Director – BFSI
Experience: 10+ years
Level: Senior Management / Director
Industry: Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI)
Function: Sales / Business Development / Account Management
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Sales Director – BFSI to drive new business, revenue growth, and strategic account development within the BFSI sector. This is a hunter-focused role requiring strong local connections, experience in selling IT services, and a proven track record of closing large enterprise deals.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive new business acquisition, revenue growth, and pipeline development within BFSI.
- Actively hunt for new opportunities through personal networks, industry relationships, and strategic prospecting.
- Develop growth strategies for new and existing accounts.
- Build trusted relationships with CIOs, CTOs, and senior decision-makers.
- Understand customer IT roadmaps and identify transformation opportunities.
- Work closely with Delivery, Pre-Sales, Consulting, and technical teams to develop winning solutions.
- Lead solution presentations, deal negotiations, and complex sales engagements.
- Drive account mining, cross-selling, and upselling opportunities.
- Provide pipeline, forecast, and deal updates to senior leadership.
- Ensure revenue, collections, margins, and profitability targets are achieved.
- Build market knowledge, generate thought leadership, and stay informed on competitors.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise sales, business development, or strategic account management.
- Strong experience in Banking & Financial Services (BFSI).
- Strong hunter profile with proven experience actively originating and closing new deals.
- Strong local network in Malaysia, particularly with CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology leaders.
- Proven track record of closing large enterprise deals, ideally around USD 10M.
- Strong experience selling IT services and consulting, rather than products or infrastructure.
- Preferably from a reputed global consulting or large IT services firm.
- Experience with complex, consultative, multi-stakeholder sales cycles.
- Strong negotiation, presentation, communication, and relationship-management skills.
- Good understanding of enterprise technology and digital transformation.
Preferred Experience
- Digital transformation and IT consulting
- Cloud and application modernization
- Data & AI
- Cybersecurity
- Managed services
- Enterprise technology transformation
KPIs
- Revenue and incremental growth achievement.
- New-logo acquisition and self-generated pipeline.
- Value and number of new deals closed.
- Large deal closure and conversion rate.
- Account growth and wallet-share expansion.
- Customer retention and satisfaction.
- Revenue, collection, margin, and profitability targets.