Named Account Executive

Job Category

Sales

Job Details

**About Salesforce**

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you’ve come to the right place.**Who is Salesforce?**

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good
- you’ve come to the right place.

**Role Description**
- We are looking for outcomes-oriented, highly collaborative Account Executives with an entrepreneurial spirit to help us tackle this extensive market opportunity and achieve revenue targets.This is not your standard tactical role selling a piece of software. You will be a key member of a close-knit, cross-functional team that is responsible for owning and driving the go-to-market strategy for your territory, and leading the sales cycle.You will sell strategic business outcomes with long-term, high growth engagements.In this role, you will be challenged as a salesperson to grow personally and professionally: The majority of leaders in our Field organisation come through internal promotions, and you’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest people in the world who will push you and support you to do the best work of your career.

**Your Impact**
- You will lead the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics, with a strong emphasis on new business sales whilst growing existing accounts.
- Handling strategic accounts and relationships across the team
- Build and maintain a sales pipeline to ensure over-achievement within the designated market sector(s).
- Engage with prospect organisations to position salesforce solutions through strategic value-based selling, case definition, return on investment analysis, references and analyst data.
- Lead the end-to-end sales process through engagement of appropriate resources such as Sales Engineers, Professional Services, Executives, Partners etc.
- Accurate weekly, monthly and quarterly forecasting and revenue delivery.
- Strengthen client relationships through regular engagement and face-to-face meetings

**Basic Requirement**
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and people skills
- Shown track achievement against targets and metrics
- Credibility internally and with customers
- Validated sales forecasting abilities and revenue achievement
- Successful history of net new business and existing business upsell
- Consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals
- Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

**Benefits**
- We are pioneers of the Pledge 1% model, providing product, grants and community service to those in need. We are proud to be#1 in PEOPLE's **Top 50 Companies that Care**, and are on Fortune’s **Change the World**list.
We provide every employee with 7 paid volunteer days off a year, and donation matching for all approved charitable donations.
We provide other world-leading benefits to all our employees, including;
Health, Life, Trauma and Income Insurance
Monthly Wellness Allowance
Flexible Time off & leave policies
Parental benefits
Perks and discounts

Accommodations

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