Roger Layette

Vice President of Sales

Deerfield, Illinois, United States

About

Professional Summary VP of Sales with 15+ years of experience leading high-performance teams and driving revenue growth across the Tech and SaaS landscape. I specialize in building genuine, long-term relationships with enterprise clients - the kind that create lasting partnerships, not just closed deals. Throughout my career, I've partnered closely with founders, C-suites, and go-to-market teams to design and execute sales strategies that scale. I'm at my best when I can bring people together - aligning sales, marketing, product, and customer success around a shared vision for growth. What sets me apart isn't just the numbers (though they are very important). It's the teams I've developed, the trust I've earned, and the clients who keep coming back. I lead with empathy, execute with discipline, and always keep the long game in mind. Open to connecting with fellow sales leaders, SaaS operators, and anyone building something worth talking about.

Experience

  • GridPoint (Full-time · 3 yrs 7 mos)
    • Vice President of Sales (Enterprise Strategic Expansion, Partner Programs)
      Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • Director Strategic Accounts
      Dec 2022 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

      GridPoint is more than a platform, it’s a vision and a promise for innovation. We’re accelerating the future of energy transformation by bringing more buildings, businesses, technologies, and utilities together to solve a global-sized problem with world-changing solutions. We’re committed to more than just optimizing buildings, but to powering everything that comes next for people, businesses and the grid.

  • Director of Sales at Zycus
    Mar 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Zycus is the pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users. Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization. Start your Cognitive Procurement journey with us, as you are Meant for More.

  • Director North America at Allocation North America, Inc.
    Mar 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Allocation Network GmbH was founded in 1998, with headquarters in Munich, Germany and Chicago, Illinois. Our solutions are designed to optimize customer and supplier relationships within strategic direct materials purchasing. As an expert in software solutions and services in strategic purchasing and quality management, Allocation Network is a long-standing partner of companies such as BMW Group, Siemens, Magna and many more. With our e-sourcing, e-auctions and supplier management software, our customers optimize their processes, achieve better results and achieve the highest level of compliance. Nowhere else can companies manage the direct materials engagement from requisition, to sourcing, through quality control and change requests.

  • Regional Sales Manager at Workday
    May 2018 - Mar 2019 · 11 mos

    Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday.

  • VP of Sales at Lavante, Inc.
    Dec 2015 - Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Lavante is the leading provider of cloud-based supplier management software for Fortune 1000 companies. Lavante SIM™ (Supplier Information Management) is a transformational tool that is the first to enable departments that own the vendor master file to dramatically improve productivity and reduce risk by quickly qualifying and validating new and existing suppliers with a single, flexible system. Lavante Recovery™ is a complementary solution that drives dollars to the bottom line by automatically identifying open credits and duplicate payments directly with suppliers. Lavante has the highest recovery rate in the industry. - See more at: http://www.lavante.com