The proper job description saves time, effort, and since it attracts qualified talents to your opening. It also boosts brand recognition. Hence, it’s essential to craft a practical job description for your talent acquisition efforts.
Use the following template to build a practical Chief Commercial Officer job description for your Linkedin job post or any free job posting website.
Job Brief
Chief Commercial Officer also known as CCO for short and sometimes referred to by the alternative name of Chief Business Officer, is an executive role. A company’s Chief Commercial Officer is responsible for overseeing the objectives and implementation of all commercial strategies.
Reports To
CEO
Main Responsibilities of a Chief Commercial Officer
You will work closely with the CEO and be responsible for developing commercial and business development strategies that are optimized for both short-term results and long-term strategy. Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading and scaling the Sales, Business Development and Customer Success teams
- Creating accountability within the company by developing appropriate metrics and coordinating compensation and promotions with these metrics
- Defining sales objectives and driving the team to achieve targets
- Generating and qualifying new leads and using different approaches to penetrate prospective accounts
- Building a high performing sales team to execute end to end sales including outreach, pitching, getting alignment, negotiation, closing deals and implementation
- Ensuring a robust after sales process to deliver strong customer engagement
- Ensuring timely recognition and reward for top achievers and implement performance management actions when needed
- Building strong and collaborative relationships with other internal stakeholders
- Monitoring market trends and providing regular competitor analysis
Key Requirements
- You have a degree in Business Administration or related field.
- You have strong track record of success in a senior sales leadership role including prior experience as a Chief Commercial Officer.
- You have successfully built, scaled and led high performing sales teams.
- You have a strong experience within consultative sales and possess the ability to prospect and manage senior level relationships.
- You are highly goal oriented and possess excellent interpersonal & communication skills.
- You are a strategic thinker & problem solver with the ability to be hands-on.
