About this role
Senior Commercial Director, North America
Position Summary
The Senior Commercial Director, North America will lead all sales and customer service functions across LANDAUER's Dosimetry and Industrial & Government business lines in North America. This is a senior commercial leadership role responsible for driving revenue growth through sales strategy and execution, expanding customer relationships, and building a high-performing sales and service organization.
This leader will own the full revenue for North America, protecting and growing a recurring revenue base of approximately $125M, accelerating cross-sell/upsell of add-on services, and reducing customer churn, while ensuring excellent customer experiences through the customer service organization.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Account & Portfolio Management
- Own the growth strategy and performance of strategic/national account portfolios, with accountability for sustainable year-over-year revenue growth through protecting existing business, expanding current customer relationships, and acquiring new customers.
- Establish and track KPIs for each portfolio and routinely evaluate performance against plan, using visual management tools.
- Identify and prioritize whitespace and competitive opportunities to focus resources on the highest-value growth opportunities.
- Protect and expand existing revenue by proactively identifying competitive threats, contract vulnerabilities, and changing customer needs, and developing strategies to strengthen LANDAUER's position and increase share.
- Own relationships with key decision-makers across strategic accounts such as GPOs, health systems, government agencies to understand customer priorities, strengthen strategic alignment, and develop compelling value propositions.
- Lead regular portfolio business reviews with the VP/GM, providing clear visibility into revenue performance, pipeline, customer retention risks, competitive opportunities, contract utilization, and progress against growth objectives.
- Maintain a strong understanding of market dynamics, competitive activity, and LANDAUER's differentiated capabilities, using those insights to continuously strengthen portfolio strategies and identify new sources of growth.
Revenue Growth & Commercial Strategy
- Own the North America sales and customer service P&L, with full accountability for revenue targets, forecasting, and pipeline management across Dosimetry and Industrial & Government segments.
- Develop and execute a commercial strategy that grows Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) annually through new customer acquisition, cross-sell/upsell of add-on services, and churn reduction.
- Partner with the VP/GM to set annual sales targets, budgets, and go-to-market priorities for North America.
Team Leadership
- Lead, coach, and develop a multi-layered sales and service organization, including direct management of three Senior Sales Managers, a Sales Compensation Analyst, a Senior Customer Service Manager, and a Business Development Specialist.
- Build a high-performance sales culture with clear accountability, strong pipeline discipline, and consistent achievement of quota and retention targets.
- Design and evolve sales compensation and incentive structures (in partnership with the Sales Compensation Analyst and Finance Leadership that align seller behavior with cross-sell, upsell, and retention goals.
Customer Retention & Experience
- Partner with the Senior Customer Service Manager to ensure a seamless, high-quality service experience for existing dosimetry customers through first touch resolution.
- Implement proactive churn-prevention programs, identifying at-risk accounts early and driving retention strategies across the customer lifecycle.
- Ensure tight alignment between sales, customer service, and operations to protect renewal rates and customer satisfaction.
Cross-Sell / Upsell & Business Development
- Drive systematic cross-sell and upsell of LANDAUER's add-on services into the existing customer base, setting targets, tracking performance, and holding the team accountable to results.
- Provide oversight and management to the Business Development Specialist in their day-to-day management of GPO/IDN and strategic account administration and support.
- Develop and implement contract strategies for key accounts and GPOs/government/strategic accounts, which strengthen LANDAUER's competitive position, improve contract terms, minimize unnecessary pricing concessions, and create opportunities for profitable growth.
- Translate negotiated agreements into measurable commercial growth by partnering with the sales team to identify, prioritize, and execute opportunities within each portfolio.
- Collaborate with Marketing and Product on offer design, pricing, and packaging for add-on services.
Reporting & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Provide regular, data-driven reporting to VP/GM on sales performance, pipeline health, churn/retention metrics, and ARR growth. Present to leadership with ability to share the story, not just the numbers.
- Work closely with Finance, Operations, Marketing, and Product teams to align commercial strategy with operational capacity and company goals.
- Represent the voice of the North America customer and market in broader company strategic planning.
Qualifications
Required
- 10+ years progressive sales leadership experience (with 3-5 of those being 2 nd line leadership), including direct management of a multi-layered sales organization (i.e., managing managers), ideally with large institutional/strategic accounts.
- Proven record owning revenue responsibility of at least $100M in annual sales.
- Knowledge of multiple sales motions including hardware and software products
- Experience selling a recurring revenue service (subscription, managed service, or contract-based model), not just one-time product sales.
- Prior experience in contract negotiations and driving growth through negotiated agreements.
- Demonstrated success driving team performance in cross-sell and upsell sales.
- Demonstrated success driving team performance in growing ARR through churn reduction and retention strategies.
- Strong track record building, leading, and developing high-performing sales and customer service teams.
- Experience partnering with or overseeing sales compensation design and administration.
- Excellent executive communication.
- Proven strength in planning, negotiating, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
Preferred
- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, industrial safety, regulated services, or a related B2B recurring-services industry.
- Experience selling into healthcare, industrial, and/or government customer segments, including GPOs or other large institutional/group purchasing entities.
- Familiarity with radiation safety, occupational health, or environmental/health/safety (EHS) markets.
Measures of Success
Success in this role will be measured by the ability to protect, grow, and acquire business across the North America portfolio, including:
- A well-developed, accountable sales and customer service leadership team with strong succession depth
- Strong, collaborative partnership with the VP/GM and cross-functional leadership
- Performance against portfolio/regional/territory growth plans
- Year-over-year MSD to LDD revenue growth
- Existing customer and revenue retention
- New customer acquisition and revenue
- Expansion of business with existing customers via cross-sell/upsell
- Competitive conversions and share gains, where applicable
- Qualified pipeline creation and conversion
- Contract utilization and penetration
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