<p><b>About Rimini Street, Inc.</b></p><p></p><p>Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, management and innovation solutions and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software. Our comprehensive portfolio of unified solutions help run, manage, support, customize, configure, connect, protect, monitor, and optimize enterprise application, database and technology software, enabling our clients to achieve better business outcomes, significantly reduce costs and reallocate resources towards strategic projects. The Company has signed thousands of contracts with Fortune Global 100, Fortune 500, midmarket, public sector and government organizations who selected Rimini Street as their trusted, proven mission-critical enterprise software solutions provider and achieved better operational outcomes, realized billions of US dollars in savings and funded AI and other innovation investments.</p><p></p><p>To learn more, please visit <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;"> and connect with Rimini Street on X, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.</p><p></p><p>We are actively seeking a <b>VP, Federal Government Sales</b><b>. </b>The role will report directly to the GVP, New Logo Sales. Remote work is available for qualified applicants. While proximity to the Washington Metro area is preferred, alternative locations within Washington, DC or Virginia will also be taken into account.</p><p></p><p><b>Position Summary</b></p><p></p><p>Rimini Street is expanding its sales force to enable it to accelerate its growth and extend its leadership position in the independent software support market. The VP, Federal Government Sales, will lead a small team focused on accelerating our business in the Federal space.  This person will be responsible for helping exceed Rimini Street’s aggressive sales goals in the Region. The VP will hire, train and lead this sales team as part of Rimini Street’s continued expansion. Rimini Street has been very successful across the globe, consistently delivering 30%+ annual growth.</p><p></p><p>The ideal candidate will have a track record of success in selling to Federal Government Agencies, (DOD and Civilian), building a pipeline, closing business, and leading a sales team.  Deep understanding of the Federal Space, GWAC’s, leveraging the channel and disadvantaged partners in particular.  This successful track record will have been forged in high-growth enterprise software or software-related services businesses with annual revenues of at least $100 million. Candidates should be charismatic executives, possess an entrepreneurial spirit and have experience “hunting” and closing new accounts.  The ideal candidate will have a history of sales excellence in managing or influencing teams that consistently exceed quota. Other important considerations include experience selling ERP software such as SAP and Oracle or selling complimentary application solutions into the SAP and Oracle customer base.  <b>The candidate should therefore have a good knowledge of the SAP and/or Oracle market and have an established network in that market.</b></p><p></p><p>This is a quota carrying position.</p><p></p><p><b>Essential Duties & Responsibilities</b></p><ul><li>Support the GVP, Sales by growing, mentoring, and leading a subset of the region’s Sales Team.</li><li>Helping craft our Federal Sales and partnering strategy and GTM.</li><li>Work collaboratively with Sales, Product and Marketing to craft an affective GTM.</li><li>Hire, onboard, train/develop, and manage a team (TBD) of successful sales account executives that consistently over achieve their monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue targets</li><li>Ensure the success of direct reports, from the time of hire, working closely with corporate support functions to supplement and support their direct efforts.</li><li>Develop and execute against a plan to exceed quota targets every quarter</li><li>Guide prospects to the Rimini Street solution through a Solution Selling approach</li><li>Collaborate with Leadership Team in setting sales strategy and growth objectives</li><li>Prepare and provide weekly forecasts to GVP, Sales</li><li>Day to day collaboration with the marketing teams to drive a coordinated Go-To-Market approach across marketing and sales resources </li><li>Represent and present Rimini Street at Regional Federal CIO and Analyst conferences</li><li>Ensure that sales activities are updated, current and tracked in Salesforce.com</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Detailed Review of Duties & Responsibilities</b></p><p></p><p><b>Role Success</b></p><p></p><p><b>Director, Sales success is defined as:</b></p><ul><li>Provide Strong leadership and direction to his/her team.</li><li>Driving behaviors that guarantee success.</li><li>Maintaining a fully staffed and trained team of AEs, hitting 100% of their individual targets on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis</li><li>Ramping new hires to productivity within 6 months of their hire date</li><li>Coaching existing team to ensure continued growth</li><li>Mentoring and maturing AEs in prep for leadership roles</li><li>Meeting and exceeding monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue targets</li><li>Maturing and expanding accounts within their territory to create longer-term, higher-margin, opportunities for RSI that capitalize on the full breadth and depth of all RSI offerings</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Recruiting/Hiring</b></p><ul><li>Maintain a pipeline of qualified candidates to quickly fill available positions on their team, pursuant to known gaps in territory coverage, existing AE challenges and potential terminations, general attrition, and territory growth.</li><li>Work with HR and leadership to consistently communicate resourcing needs/challenges, to ensure that there is no delay in hiring/onboarding new and/or backfill resources as the needs are identified and positions are approved</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Onboarding</b></p><ul><li>Actively manage the onboarding process of each resource</li><li>Work closely with corporate support functions (HR, Benefits, IT, Legal, Enablement) to quickly and efficiently onboard new resources and ensure they have the defined training, tools, hardware, strategy/plan, and training necessary to be successful</li><li>Maintain a daily cadence with the new resource to ensure an expedited and efficient onboarding process.</li><li>Act as the first line of defense for questions/needs related to onboarding, and assist with connecting the resource to the right corporate function to provide immediate resolution to any onboarding issue</li><li>Define target accounts and work directly with the AE to prepare account penetration and expansion plans, within 3 months of the AE being hired</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Training/Development</b></p><ul><li>Work closely with corporate functions (Enablement, Marketing, Sales Ops) to define, implement, deliver, and track a tailored training and individual development program for each AE, ensuring the AE is fully prepared and equipped to be successful in their role</li><li>Mentor, shadow, track/audit, and adjust accordingly, the progress of the training and development, to ensure each AE is on target to be fully ramped and closing their first opportunity within 6 months of being hired</li><li>Participate in no fewer than 5 customer meetings with the new AE, within 3 months of their hire date</li><li>Inspect, test, and ensure mastery of the below general topics (and others, as needed), within 3 months of the hire date</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Managing</b></p><ul><li>VP, Government Sales will be responsible for managing, modifying, and growing their business and team through a series of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual activities and duties.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Other Responsibilities</b></p><ul><li>Travel plays a part in this role. We expect the VP to travel as needed (about 25%) for sales opportunities.</li><li>Reinforce and extend the unique and strong Rimini Street culture.</li><li>Contribute to best practices across the NAMER Sales Theater</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Education</b></p><p></p><p>Bachelor's degree or equivalent (depending on geography) from accredited institution</p><p></p><p><b>Location</b></p><p></p><p>Remote – Washington DC or Virginia; Washington Metro preferred but not required</p><p></p><p><b>Experience</b></p><ul><li>12+ years’ experience selling enterprise software and services to the Federal Government market  either in start-up environments or working for international enterprise software companies.</li><li>5+ years in a Federal sales leadership or equivalent role with a proven track record of team building to drive strong sales results against target plans. Prefer experience overseeing high growth software or software-related services businesses.</li><li>Rimini Street is a Team selling environment.  Should have proven experience in team-selling, as over 50% of this role will entail selling with direct reports and helping them develop, manage and close sales deals.</li><li>Proven experience in navigating the Federal space to win new logos, which includes cold-calling and lead prospecting and development.</li><li>Aptitude and experience to manage a team of quota bearing high-volume sales reps across multiple regional locations. Specifically, sales management experience in the Federal markets with focus selling to Entities larger than $1B in annual revenues.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Skills</b></p><ul><li>Strong understanding of sales management fundamentals and understanding sales methodologies including solution selling, team selling, the Salesforce.com application and sales motivations</li><li>Sales compensation plans and models</li><li>Cold-calling, lead prospecting and development</li><li>Strong team management skills, including coaching, mentoring, goal-setting, performance tracking, evaluation and remediation</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Desired Qualifications</b></p><ul><li>Enjoy working within a rapidly changing, fast moving organization with “startup” energy</li><li>Demonstrated success building / reinforcing a unique and creative office culture that is team oriented and collaborative</li><li>Strong time management and organizational skills</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Why Rimini Street?</b></p><p></p><p>Rimini Street Inc. is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable Federal, State, and Local Laws regarding recruitment and hiring.</p><p></p><p>Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable Federal, State, or Local laws. Rimini Street Inc. offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to employees.</p><p></p><p>Compensation is based on role, location, and level of applicable experience. </p><p>Rimini’s target pay for each position is available upon request during the applicant’s Interview process.</p><p></p><p>Benefits for US employees include:</p><ul><li>Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance</li><li>Disability insurance</li><li>Paid Parental Leave</li><li>401(k) program</li><li>Generous Paid time off (PTO)</li></ul><p></p><p>We are looking for talented, passionate people to help us build our future at <a href="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rimini Street</a>. We hire only the best, the most extraordinary professionals and provide compensation, bonuses, and benefits to match the skills of our top-performing team members. Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy growing together, and get excited about learning new skills? Are you looking for an opportunity to make a true impact as part of a team of extraordinary professionals? This is the place for you.</p><p></p><p>Our work is challenging and meaningful. We start and end each day with a sense of achievement and purpose guided by our core values, the Four Cs: </p><ul><li>Company<ul><li>We dream big and innovate boldly.  </li></ul></li></ul><ul><li>Colleagues<ul><li>We work with extraordinary people who create a culture of mutual respect and collaboration. </li></ul></li></ul><ul><li>Clients<ul><li>We relentlessly pursue solutions that help clients achieve their goals. Our unmatched client care is rooted in our passion for exceptional service. </li></ul></li></ul><ul><li>Community <ul><li>We believe in leaving the world a better place than we found it. With the Rimini Street Foundation, we’ve made positive impacts in six continents for over 425 charities.</li></ul></li></ul><p></p><p><b>Accelerating Company Growth</b></p><ul><li>Nasdaq-listed under ticker symbol <a href="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">RMNI</a> since October 2017 </li><li>Over 5,900+ signed contracts to date, including Fortune 500 and Global 100 companies</li><li>Over 2,000 team members in 23 countries</li><li>US and international recognition for industry leadership and philanthropic efforts. See all of our awards and recognitions here: <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;"> Street is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. </p><p></p><p>To learn more about how Rimini Street is redefining the enterprise software support industry, visit <a href="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; text-decoration: inherit; hyphens: auto;"> Note: Rimini Street does not accept resumes submitted by recruiting/staffing firms unless specifically requested by Human Resources.  Unsolicited resumes will be ineligible for referral fees.</p>