Senior Sales Specialist

The Solution Specialist is a senior individual contributor responsible for accelerating growth of the company’s iNet as-a-service offering across North America. This role serves as a top-level seller for complex iNet opportunities, combining consultative selling, customer discovery, solution design, and commercial execution to convert strategic opportunities into scalable recurring revenue.
Reporting to the director of sales, this specialist will operate as a strategic partner to regional sales teams, coaching sellers on how to position, qualify, and close iNet opportunities while directly engaging customers on high-value pursuits.
This role carries broad commercial influence without direct people-management responsibility, working across a matrixed organization to build seller capability, strengthen pipeline quality, and deliver measurable subscription growth aligned to near and long-term objectives.
Key Responsibilities
1. iNet Growth Strategy & Execution

Define and execute sales strategies to expand adoption of the iNet as-a-service offering across priority accounts, verticals, and regions

Lead strategic iNet pursuits from opportunity identification through close, with emphasis on recurring revenue, customer value, and long-term retention

Partner with regional sellers to identify target accounts, qualify customer needs, and build compelling business cases for iNet adoption

Align iNet growth activity with commercial policy deployment, revenue objectives, and customer retention priorities

2. Strategic Selling & Customer Engagement

Serve as the subject matter expert and top-level seller for iNet opportunities requiring executive engagement, complex solution configuration, or cross-functional coordination

Lead consultative discovery with customers to connect safety outcomes, operational efficiency, compliance needs, and total cost of ownership to the iNet value proposition

Develop and deliver customer-facing presentations, proposals, and commercial narratives that clearly articulate the value of iNet as-a-service

Support negotiation strategy and deal progression for high-impact opportunities in partnership with the regional sales owner

3. Regional Seller Coaching & Enablement

Coach and mentor regional sellers across North America on how to sell iNet effectively, including qualification, discovery, objection handling, value messaging, and close strategy

Build scalable selling tools, talk tracks, playbooks, and best-practice examples that improve seller confidence and consistency

Conduct field coaching, deal reviews, and opportunity strategy sessions to improve pipeline conversion and sales execution

Create feedback loops from the field to identify gaps in seller capability, customer messaging, product positioning, and commercial process

4. Pipeline Development & Revenue Discipline

Drive pipeline creation and acceleration for iNet by partnering with regional sales leaders, account executives, marketing, and customer success

Establish clear opportunity standards for iNet qualification, stage progression, value articulation, and forecast confidence

Use CRM, analytics, and leading indicators to assess pipeline quality, identify risks, and prioritize seller support where it will create the greatest impact

Provide commercial leadership with actionable insights on iNet growth performance, customer adoption trends, and barriers to scale

5. Cross-Functional Leadership

Partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, Finance, and Operations to align iNet strategy, offering design, pricing support, customer onboarding, and retention execution

Act as the voice of the field for iNet, translating customer and seller feedback into practical improvements in messaging, process, enablement, and product-market fit

Influence decisions across a matrixed organization while maintaining strong alignment with regional sales ownership and commercial leadership priorities

6. Fortive Business System (FBS) & Continuous Improvement

Apply FBS principles to improve iNet sales process discipline, funnel management, standard work, and repeatable execution

Lead or support kaizen activity focused on improving iNet pipeline quality, proposal speed, customer onboarding handoffs, seller productivity, and close rates

Establish operating rhythms and performance reviews tied to iNet growth metrics, accountability, and continuous improvement

Act as a change agent by modeling data-driven decision-making, disciplined commercial execution, and customer-centered selling behaviors

Qualifications

Required:

10+ years of experience in enterprise sales, solution selling, business development, or subscription/as-a-service commercial models

Proven track record selling complex B2B solutions and driving recurring revenue growth across a matrixed sales organization

Strong ability to coach, influence, and enable regional sellers without direct reporting authority

Excellent customer discovery, executive communication, business-case development, and value-selling capability

Strong analytical and CRM-driven approach to pipeline management, forecasting, and commercial execution

Preferred:

Experience selling connected safety, industrial technology, SaaS, managed services, or equipment-as-a-service offerings

Familiarity with Salesforce, commercial analytics, AI-enabled seller tools, and structured sales methodologies

Experience working across North America with regional sales teams, channel partners, and enterprise customers

Ability to translate technical solution capabilities into clear executive-level business value

MBA or equivalent advanced business experience

Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive's essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care.
We are a diverse team 10,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We're honest about what's working and what isn't, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About Industrial Scientific
Industrial Scientific designs and manufactures gas detection products and solutions that protect workers from hazardous conditions around the world. Since our beginnings in 1985, we have pioneered numerous technologies, including the first 3-gas detector, 6-gas detector, wireless gas detector, and even the first gas detector to be included on a NASA space shuttle.Today, we continue to innovate and expand our hardware and software offerings to equip the connected workers of the future. Our latest solutions make it possible to see and respond to hazards in real time, bringing us one step closer to our vision of ending death on the job by 2050.
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Pay Range
The salary range for this sales position (inclusive of sales incentives/commissions in local currency) is 190100 - 267900
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