Account Executive – Enterprise Sales

Account Executive – Enterprise Sales

Requirements

• Intermediate level experience years of B2B sales experience (experience in software considered an asset); proven ability to achieve or exceed assigned quotas.
• Ability to focus on client business value, return on investment, and customer solutions (not features-focused selling).
• Experience crafting sales plans for your vertical/territory and building/executing on your account/territory plans.
• Open Communication: clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding
• Commitment to Results: Consistently achieving results, demonstrating high performance and challenging self and others to deliver results.
• Customer Focus: Demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs.
• Negotiation: Successfully obtains commitment to a solution or idea, while maintaining integrity and relationships.
• Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish—doesn’t give up.

Responsibilities

• Successfully acquire new enterprise sized business customers within our landmark industries in order to achieve individual quota targets. You will be required to also prospect and generate your own outbound leads.
• Navigate sales cycles from value creation to negotiation and closing, and present the value of our solutions to prospective senior level customers.
• Take ownership of your quarterly target by crafting and executing a strategy in order to identify, generate and develop net new sales pipeline and achieve/exceed quota targets. Accurately forecast sales activity and revenue attainment.
• Proactively seek out insightful market and industry information in order to effectively develop rapport with mid-market customers. Recommend relevant solutions by offering a unique product mix from the range of Hootsuite products to solve clients business challenges. Recommend appropriate third party partner solutions to meet customer needs and build a differentiated pitch for our customers.
• Deliver product presentations and demos to potential customers, showcasing a range of solutions that provide maximum benefit to the customer. Complete RFI/ RFP and other supplier technical requirement documents.
• Partner with our pre & post sales teams to navigate roadblocks and objections, ensuring customer success and long term value for the customer.
• Based on regional needs, craft and generate expansion strategies for existing customers; present the value of our solutions to all levels of prospective customers; look for opportunities to adopt additional products and introduce sales team members to additional internal buyers for cross-sell opportunities.
• Partner with Sales Development Representatives to plan approaches to your accounts and work together to build outbound pipelines.
• Manage, track and report sales activities and results through Salesforce, Sales Navigator and 6Sense.
• Travel to see prospects and deliver presentations to stakeholders, ability to coordinate these presentations and workshops with leadership support.
• Facilitate a warm handoff to the implementation and customer teams following the close of the initial customer sale to ensure a smooth customer transition and onboarding.
• Perform other related duties as required.
• Lead longer end to end sales cycles from value creation to negotiation and closing, and present the value of our solutions to senior and C-suite prospective customers. Lead and manage complex, global evaluations and manage stakeholders in different regions and departments.
• Proactively and strategically seek out market information and understand the product-market fit in order to effectively develop rapport with customers.
• As a subject matter expert in Social Media Management and in our customers unique industry, advise and recommend relevant solutions by offering a unique product mix from the range of Hootsuite products to solve clients business challenges.
• Evaluate and complete RFI’s/ RFP/s , Security and Privacy agreements and manage the proposal and credit review process.
• Educate and inform our customers on the impact social media has on their corporate strategy. Deliver strategic product presentations, demos and supported trials of our solutions to potential customers and prospects, and identify and build consensus among multiple, cross-functional decision makers and influencers.
• Partner with our pre & post sales teams as well as senior and executive internal stakeholders to remove roadblocks, create opportunity and ensure customer success and long term value for the customer. Manage, track and report sales activities through Salesforce, Sales Navigator and 6Sense.
• Based on regional needs, craft and generate expansion strategies for existing customers; present the value of our solutions to all levels of prospective customers; look for opportunities to adopt additional products and introduce sales team members to additional internal buyers for cross-sell opportunities.
• Proactively transition the customer to the customer team following the close of the initial customer sale to ensure a smooth customer transition and onboarding.
• Travel to see prospects and deliver presentations to stakeholders, ability to coordinate these presentations and workshops with leadership support.
• Lead by example to your peers and share learnings and insights with team members on deal challenges, objections, and account strategy.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.