Navigating a Sales and Marketing Integration:
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Have you ever faced the daunting task of merging sales and marketing teams post-deal as a functional team lead or have experience second hand?
Share the successes, failures, or lessons learned on this key phase/part of M&A integration.
A few options to get the discussion started:
1) Addressing Concerns – What are the key concerns likely to arise among customers and sales staff/executives, and how can they be proactively address?
2) Maintaining & Growing Customers – How have you seen customer issues identified and addressed, ensuring smooth transition and a runway for growth?
3) Fostering Collaboration: What strategies have you seen employed to build a cohesive and high-performing sales and marketing team post-acquisition?
1) Assignability of contracts, as a customer facing priority. As for the sales team, account and service/ product alignment and CRM integration.
2) Post-deal, I wouldn’t consider this directly correlated with post merger integration, however, a key factor for the sales team in steady state. These customer interactions are largely relationship based. I have seen efforts to improve KPIs post acquisition, and efforts to leverage the acquiring company’s resources to resolve operational challenges.
3) Partnering strong functional leads for marketing and sales are critical in integration. Getting the right pairing at the right time is essential to the success of the team through cultivating the right joint culture.
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