The Enterprise Sales Director (ESD), is a primary contributor to Lionbridge’s overall growth and profitability. The ESD is responsible for driving revenue growth by building and managing new/existing client relationships, long-term client relationships, and developing strategic business relationships. The role requires a strong focus on new business development, in addition to, up-selling and cross-selling to existing clients and securing contract renewals. This will be achieved through sound account planning, prospecting to identify high quality clients, qualifying and developing assigned accounts, understanding the client business environment, educating clients on Lionbridge s product offerings, and identifying ways the company can assist clients in solving its application development testing challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Develops and executes sales plans and coordinates sales efforts to achieve new customer revenue and existing customer up-sell revenue targets
• Demonstrate leadership by leveraging your knowledge of a broad set of Lionbridge Services including: Localization/translation, Content Development, Testing, and Digital Marketing
• Focus sales and business development efforts on top Japanese companies /prospects
• Meets or exceeds defined sales quota through strategic account planning, networking and use of company resources
• Actively participates in regional marketing events for lead generation (industry trade shows, professional associations, etc.)
• Account Management Builds client relationships: maximizes Lionbridge s revenue and profitability potential by up-selling to existing clients, driving renewal revenue and ensuring client satisfaction
• Manages and grows portfolio of existing Lionbridge clients by up-selling new revenue and raising awareness of the company s broader suite of testing services and solutions
• Involvement in kickoff meetings, major milestone meetings, and opportunistic participation where senior client decision makers are present
• Sales Leadership Strategic sales approach, creates value for clients and adds to the company s capabilities and reputation
• Maintains thorough understanding of Lionbridge s product offerings and tailoring its presentation to meet the needs of different types of organizations
• Assists clients in developing the business case and value proposition for proposed solutions when necessary
• Collaborates with Client Services Team and Executive Leadership Team in executing the company’s sales process including proposal development
• Tracks and maintains all prospect and client activity in
• People Development Contributes to the growth, development and positive experience of sales team
Qualifications:
• Graduate Degree or equivalent business experience
• At least 5 years of enterprise sales experience
• Proven track record of successful customer engagements across a spectrum of enterprise-class verticals in Japan
• Experience with Language Solutions a plus
• Demonstrated success selling to Fortune 1000
• Strong foundation for strategic and tactical selling of a solution sale
• Excellent presentation and negotiation skills
• Motivated to advance growth in an entrepreneurial, rapidly growing company environment
• Proficient in leveraging generative AI tools for localisation, content creation, and process optimization, with a proven ability to educate enterprise clients on emerging AI trends, showcase AI-powered localization platforms, and position AI-driven solutions as strategic advantages by highlighting their impact on automation, scalability, and efficiency