Enterprise Sales Account Manager - Public Sector

Adobe Systems GmbH; British Columbia; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Public Sector Account Director to drive sales of innovative digital solutions. In this pivotal role, you will engage with government agencies, crafting strategic relationships and account plans to meet sales targets. Your expertise in SaaS and IT solutions, combined with a deep understanding of public sector needs, will empower you to identify compelling business issues and articulate unique value propositions. Join a dynamic team dedicated to transforming digital experiences and making a significant impact in the public sector. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for technology, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in SaaS and IT solutions sales.
• Strong understanding of digital experience technologies and public sector.

Responsibilities

• Develop long-term relationships with public sector organizations.
• Achieve sales targets through strategic account planning.

Skills

Sales Strategy

Problem Solving

Customer Relationship Management

Public Sector Expertise

Digital Experience Technologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Salesforce

Adobe Experience Cloud

Job description

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

Adobe is looking for a Public Sector Account Director who is responsible for achieving sales targets through the sale of Adobe’s Experience Cloud product lines. As a part of our enterprise sales team, working with Adobe’s largest public sector organizations in British Columbia and Alberta, the role includes the development of long-term relationships with customers as well as crafting strategic account plans. The Account Director will achieve this through software solution selling capabilities and direct, face-to-face contact with the customer. Responsibilities include building relationships at all levels with a focus on executive level government and agency leadership, and effectively navigating the customer's organization. You will guide and assist customers in achieving a successful start with Adobe and help them expand the value realized from our solution. Successful candidates will be data-minded, naturally inquisitive, and tech-savvy individual with prior senior level sales experience working with Government ministries and agencies.

What you’ll do

• Approach the business strategically and set a multi-year north star vision and strategy for your business grounded in value. Proactively identify and achieve path to sales plan.
• Be an innovative and resilient problem solver. Able to bring forward and take the lead on solving ambitious and sophisticated problems that allow Adobe to better serve our customers.
• Communicate with customers effectively and persuasively to uncover company-viable solutions from their view.
• Build strong executive relationships across multiple fields (DM, ADMs, CIO, CDO, CMO).
• Identify and gain alignment from customer on compelling business issue to be addressed.
• Demonstrate Public Sector industry expertise, thought leadership, grasp of macro-economic environment and be a trusted advisor.
• Articulate the Adobe story, unique value proposition and how Adobe’s solutions align with customer’s vision and solve government business issues (e.g. return on investment of product).
• Lead, collaborate and orchestrate Adobe's entire Ecosystem and Partners to drive outcomes. Use Adobe's ecosystem to the fullest potential.
• Collaborate to drive consensus and action. Owner and driver of the territory and account strategy and how the ecosystem will support.
• Manage large, sophisticated sales processes internally involving legal, deal desk, product marketing, product support & engineering and other Adobe customers.
• Identify and lead collaboration with external 3rd parties including tech partners and system integrators.
• Meet sales quota and run efficient business.
• Advance and close sales opportunities - through the successful execution of the sales strategy and roadmap.
• Build strong account plans at the beginning of the year and lead regular account planning meetings to keep team aligned.
• Follow a well-adapted approach to maintaining a rolling 4Q pipeline. Keep pipeline current and quickly qualify opportunities. Collaborate with support organizations including Marketing, Inside sales, Partners and channels to funnel pipeline into your accounts.

What you need to succeed

• Minimum 7+ years with consistent track record selling SaaS and IT solutions, services or lines of business in large government & crown organizations.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment, partnering with other Adobe teams including Sales, Support, Engineering, Product & Marketing.
• Strong understanding of digital experience technologies.
• Validated Sales Excellence and creative, problem-solving approach.
• Prior experience selling to public sector is preferred.