Account Executive

**Job Category **:Sales

**Job Details**:
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***Role Description**:
**About Team**
- Growth Business Account Executive covering Commercial within the Consumer Goods channel.
- Territory is aligned by local geography and region

**About Role**
- Selling our Core 360 solutions across a set of existing Salesforce customers as well as breaking into net new logos in your assigned territory
- Increasing revenue spend
- You will be working in a fast-paced, innovative and growing environment

**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.
- Leading strategic accounts and relationships across the team
- Build and maintain a sales pipeline to ensure over-achievement within the designated market sector(s).
- Recruitment and enablement of Partners
- Engage with prospect organisations to position salesforce solutions through strategic value-based selling, case definition, return on investment analysis, references and analyst data.
- Run the 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
- Handling industry events and user groups to generate market interest

**Basic Requirements**
- Minimum 3-5 years sales experience (preferably Software or Business Applications)
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and people skills
- Validated track achievement against targets and metrics
- Credibility internally and with customers
- Solid sales forecasting abilities and revenue achievement
- Successful history of net new business and existing business upsell
- Consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals

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