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Skillsoft

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1998

📚 Education

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Education • Enterprise • SaaS

Skillsoft is a company that provides enterprise learning solutions designed to rapidly develop employee skills and close skill gaps. The company offers various customized learning programs, including leadership and business skills, technology skills, compliance and ethics, and AI skills. Skillsoft's learning platforms, such as Codecademy for Enterprise and Skillsoft Percipio, enable organizations to transform their workforces through mentorship, coaching, and instructor-led training. With a focus on integrating learning options into organizational frameworks and supporting workforce development with assessments and reports, Skillsoft aims to prepare teams for the evolving demands of the digital era. More than 12,000 organizations trust Skillsoft for their employee learning and development needs.

📋 Description

• Drive New Logo Growth by consistently exceeding revenue targets by winning new enterprise customers and creating long-term strategic value. • Lead Executive Workforce Transformation conversations by engaging CHROs, CIOs, Talent Leaders, and Business Executives around workforce readiness, AI adoption, skills gaps, and organizational transformation. • Build a high-value pipeline by generating and maintaining 4-5x pipeline coverage through disciplined prospecting, account planning, and targeted outreach. • Sell business outcomes by positioning Skillsoft's Skills Management Platform as a strategic solution that helps organizations identify, develop, deploy, and measure critical workforce capabilities. • Orchestrate complex Enterprise sales cycles and lead multi-stakeholder opportunities across HR, IT, Operations, Finance, and Executive Leadership teams. • Create Executive-Level relationships by developing trusted advisor status with senior decision-makers and aligning Skillsoft solutions to business priorities and strategic initiatives. • Create demand through a combination of outbound activity, social selling, referrals, executive networking, and account-based engagement. • Deliver insight-led customer engagement by conducting deep account research and bring industry, workforce, and skills-based insights that challenge customer thinking. • Partner effectively with Solution Consultants, Customer Success, Product Specialists, Marketing, and Leadership to advance opportunities. • Demonstrate measurable impact through workforce readiness, productivity improvement, compliance, talent mobility, and transformation outcomes. • Master the Skillsoft value story and become an expert in Skills Intelligence, AI-powered learning, workforce transformation, talent development, and organizational capability building. • Maximize deal value, accelerate time-to-close, and create the foundation for long-term customer success. • Maintain accurate pipeline, forecasting, and opportunity management practices through disciplined CRM execution.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years of success selling enterprise SaaS or business transformation solutions with a proven history of quota overachievement. • Demonstrated ability to influence and engage VP, SVP, C-Suite, and board-level stakeholders. • Skilled at uncovering business challenges, building urgency, and aligning solutions to strategic outcomes. • Experienced navigating large enterprises, multiple stakeholders, and long sales cycles. • Able to articulate how skills, talent, learning, and AI initiatives contribute to measurable business performance. • Confident challenging conventional thinking and leading conversations that drive change. • Highly organized with strong prospecting habits, CRM hygiene, and forecasting accuracy. • Thrives in a matrixed environment and effectively leverages specialist resources to win business. • Exceptional presentation, storytelling, negotiation, and relationship-building skills. • Resilient, coachable, competitive, and motivated by winning net new business. • Willingness to travel up to 30-35%.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Career development programs • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities