Senior Client Executive – DACH

Medidata Solutions; Düsseldorf; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life and disability insurance

401(k) matching

Family leave

Flexible paid time off

10 paid holidays per year

Zusammenfassung

Medidata is seeking a Senior Client Executive to drive bookings and revenue within assigned accounts. You will build consultative, long-term relationships with customers and lead initiatives with cross-functional teams to expand service adoption.

The role requires expert-level experience in strategic selling, deep account planning, and ability to influence C-Level stakeholders across organizations.

Qualifikationen

• Experience with complex enterprise sales cycles and healthcare or life sciences a plus.
• Track record of exceeding targets and managing strategic accounts.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement across levels.

Aufgaben

• Achieve booking, revenue, and profit targets within assigned territories.
• Identify sales opportunities via daily prospecting and build long-term relationships.
• Develop and execute strategic account plans and coordinate resources.
• Engage C-Level decision makers and provide thought leadership on projects.
• Forecast, maintain pipeline data in Salesforce, and ensure retention/adoption.

Kenntnisse

Strategic account management

C-Level relationship building

Consultative selling

Multi-opportunity management

Forecasting and pipeline management

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Salesforce

Jobbeschreibung

About our Company

Medidata is powering smarter treatments and healthier people through digital solutions to support clinical trials. Celebrating over 25 years of ground-breaking technological innovation across more than 38,000 trials and 12 million patients, Medidata offers industry-leading expertise, analytics-powered insights, and one of the largest clinical trial data sets in the industry. More than 1 million registered users across approximately 2,300 customers trust Medidata's seamless, end-to-end platform to improve patient experiences, accelerate clinical breakthroughs, and bring therapies to market faster. A Dassault Systèmes brand (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA), Medidata is headquartered in New York City and has been recognized as a Leader by Everest Group and IDC. Discover more at www.medidata.com. Listen to our latest podcast, from Dreamers to Disruptors, and follow us at @Medidata.

About the Team

The Senior Client Executive is an Expert-level professional who applies broad expertise and knowledge in highly specialized fields or several related disciplines . You will be responsible for achieving booking, revenue, and profit objectives within assigned account territories, identifying sales opportunities through daily prospecting, and efficiently leveraging resources to build consultative, long-term relationships with customers . At this level, you are accountable for results, which may impact the entire function.

Key Responsibilities

• Sales Target Attainment: Accomplish booking, revenue, and profit targets, as well as daily, weekly, and quarterly productivity metrics through daily outbound calling to prospective customers. You will be directly responsible for closing sales transactions and partnering with Market Development Specialists to close mid-market leads. Operating as an expert, you will also lead and contribute to the development of company objectives and principles to achieve goals in creative and effective ways.
• Territory Ownership: Responsible for managing, deepening and elevating (C-Suite) relationships within an existing portfolio of client organizations. This role requires a high degree of strategic account planning, negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration to maximize client satisfaction and expand service adoption, with a strong emphasis on growing revenue within the existing client base.
• Problem Solving & Complexity: Work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles. This role requires conceptual thinking to understand advanced issues and implications, as well as the ability to exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Collaboration & Thought Leadership: Establish relationships with "C-Level" decision makers within prospect organizations while maintaining well-coordinated internal relationships. You will be expected to create formal networks involving coordination among groups and focus on providing thought leadership on broader organization projects. Recognized internally as a subject matter expert, you will need to convey advanced information and persuade several diverse stakeholders and audiences, and you may direct the activities of others.
• Planning & Administration: Develop and execute sales plans as it relates to developing a new book of business, build customer loyalty, and achieve retention rates. Coordinate resources within sales and other departments, maintain accurate account and opportunity data in Salesforce, and complete weekly, monthly, and quarterly pipeline forecasting.

Qualifications

• Experience & Education: This role typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years of experience; or equivalent experience. Preferred educational backgrounds include a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Business, Computer Science, or equivalent relevant sales experience. Significant barriers to entry exist at this level, which may require committee review.
• Sales Expertise: Demonstrated track record in exceeding sales targets, expertise with process approached selling, and application software sales experience.
• Skills: Experience balancing multiple sales opportunities, establishing communication and engagement with prospects, and strong business experience following a clear process for outreach using different methods.
• Travel: The majority of your time will be dedicated to traveling for in-person client meetings, though the specific frequency may fluctuate depending on the quarter.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Medidata provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a commission on the terms of applicable plan documents, and many of Medidata's non-sales positions are eligible for annual bonuses. Medidata believes that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and provides benefits, including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, 401(k) matching, family leave, flexible paid time off; and 10 paid holidays per year.