Account Executive, Strategic

This position is based in Sydney and reports to the Director for Asia Sales. This role has a team go to market approach and has a designated enterprise sales rep driving account activity plus designated solution engineer and customer success manager assisting with account engagement and solution designs.

**You Will**:

- Strategically engage senior customer stakeholders with a current Smartsheet footprint and drive additional revenue through new solution upsells.
- Land and expand with new Logos for Smartsheet by selling our full suite of products and services
- Grow account footprint and revenue to an ultimate goal of a full enterprise wide contract agreement.
- Pipeline generation and end-to-end sales cycle management with companies above 5000 employee size using the MEDDICC sales framework.
- Utilise multithreading and consistent lead outreach, as appropriate, within both new logos and existing customers to drive business growth
- Conduct consultative and cross-functional discovery calls and act as a Consultant to the Customer to identify their needs and align customer challenges to impact-driven Smartsheet solutions
- Understand & respond to Customer requirements within the highly competitive sales market, including response to RFPs, defining collaboration goals, success criteria and program strategy to achieve results
- Conduct product demonstrations and partner with cross functional teams, including Sales Engineers, Customer Success and internal Consulting, to support complex sales cycles.
- Qualify and prioritise strategic business (80%) while closing and upleveling transactional business (20%) to ensure a healthy pipeline
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in Salesforce leveraging MEDDICC qualification guidelines
- Develop detailed strategic account plans aimed at growing Smartsheet footprint across enterprise business units.
- Utilise channel partner network where appropriate to gain customer traction
- Pipeline manage and forecast to exceed quarterly quota's

**You Have**:

- Proven sales track record in complex enterprise SaaS environment
- Proven ability to prospect and manage a designated territory to maximise revenue growth
- Experience in strategic account relationship management
- Executive mindset & ability to interact well with senior level corporate management
- Understanding of Solution/Consultative Selling with ability to execute each stage in the sales cycle to advance the sale
- A value and ROI driven sales process focused on customer outcomes is crucial to align with the Smartsheet sales motion
- Promotes the importance of collaboration within and across our business to create, capture, share and maximise value. Interacts effectively with others; is considerate and approachable; values, respects, and welcomes differences and others' perspectives; is mindful of own authority and personal impact.
- Establishes clear goals and priorities; translates strategy into action plans; holds self accountable for performance goals; does what is needed to ensure they consistently deliver an excellent customer experience
- Passion for working with emerging technologies and an ability to understand new technical concepts
- Ability to continuously improve and adopt best practices while holding self accountable in a hybrid workplace

**About Smartsheet**

Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment with the best employees. We provide employment opportunities without regard to any legally protected status in accordance with applicable laws in the US, UK, and Australia. If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.

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