Named Account Executive - Media

Tech Sales Jobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking an Named Account Executive - Media AE 2 in London. You will engage with existing customers and new leads to sell the Salesforce Customer 360 platform, building trusted relationships with key stakeholders and c-suite decision makers in your patch.

You will develop opportunities through warm leads and whitespace prospecting, leveraging media experience and cross-functional resources to drive value realization for customers and Salesforce.

Qualifications

• Quota-carrying, technology solution-based direct sales experience.
• Develop account plans to retain/grow ACV with upsell/cross-sell.
• Uncover customers' objectives through discovery and value hypotheses.
• Identify compelling value propositions addressing customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive satisfaction.
• Lead end-to-end sales with required resources (SEs, PS, Executives, Partners).
• Formalize go-to-market territory strategy within 30 days.
• Share evolving Salesforce value proposition with strategic customer.
• Drive growth within assigned accounts.

Skills

Quota carrying sales

Account planning

Research & discovery

Solutioning

Customer communication

Team selling

Interpersonal skills

Sales methodology

Job description

Named Account Executive - Media AE 2

Location: United Kingdom - London

Remote Type: Office - Flexible

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

About Salesforce

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Our Enterprise Account Executives engage with existing customers and new leads to sell the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform. They build positive, trusted relationships with both key team members and c-suite decision makers within their patch, and become natural at helping customers realize value from their Salesforce investments.

You will use your skills to develop opportunities, through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.

Working within our UK team, this role requires extensive Media experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts
• Develop and drive the overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned with customer business objectives
• Lead the end-to-end sales process through the engagement of appropriate resources such as Sales Engineers, Professional Services, Executives, Partners, etc.
• Territory identification and research, to formalize a go-to-market territory strategy and create a qualified go to market plan within 30 days.
• Share Salesforce evolving value proposition with a large strategic customer
• Drive growth within an existing assigned account

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Demonstrated Success of quota carrying, technology solution-based direct sales experience.
• Account Planning Strategies: Create account plans to retain and grow ACV (Actual Contract Value) with existing accounts with a focus on upsell, and cross-sell.
• Research and Discovery: Uncover customers’ current processes, business objectives, and strategic goals based on customer discovery, use cases, and value hypotheses.
• Solutioning: Identifies compelling value propositions that address customer needs by demonstrating an understanding of technology solutions.
• Customer Communication: Interacting with customers in a clear, concise, and timely manner using a variety of communication methods (writing, speech, presentation) and tools (whiteboarding, Slack, Google Slides, Zoom).
• Resource Application: Continuously runs toward results using the full capabilities of available resources and tools.
• Team Selling: Aligns with the full capacities of the account team and partners to support the deal and customer success.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Sales Methodology education.
• Ability to develop cases and service requirements, while crafting and leading strategic alliances.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Track record of consistently achieving or surpassing quota.
• Ability to work with multiple internal teams, govern, inspire, and leverage resources to align with account objectives.
• Experience will be evaluated based on alignment with the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

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