Strategic Sales Executive

SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc.; India; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Strategic Sales Representative to drive revenue across $5B+ organizations in the Indian market.

You will sell our IGA Solution Suite, navigate multinational accounts at the C-level, and leverage channel partners to close high-value contracts. The role emphasizes Challenger sales, large POC/RFP activity, and building trusted executive relationships with decision makers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or global equivalent in IT, business or sales fields preferred.
• Experience selling to large multinational organizations and navigating long sales cycles.
• Familiarity with SaaS, cyber-security or IAM/IGA beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Sell SailPoint IGA Solution Suite to large organizations (approx. 10 target accounts).
• Negotiate high-value contracts and manage cycles including POCs, RFPs and BVAs.
• Build and maintain executive relationships with senior buyers and leverage channel partners.

Skills

SaaS sales

Challenger sales

C-level engagement

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Salesforce (SFDC)

Job description

As the leader in Identity Security, SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the modern enterprise. Harnessing the power of AI and machine learning, delivering the central control point for risk management for the enterprise. SailPoint continues to grow globally and expanding our global presence creates opportunities for top salespeople to become a part of our awesome culture. We are a Gartner top right, high growth Identity Security SaaS organization: the only company with a multi-tenant, micro services built SaaS IGA solution and AI and machine learning Identity Security platform. Organizations don’t know what data they have; let alone where it resides and crucially: who/what has access: we help them answer those key questions. Identity security is the central control point for risk management for the enterprise: the easiest way to implement your digital transformation faster and reduce risk. Our employees voted us “best places to work” – 10 years in a row.

Strategic Sales Representative

We are seeking an experienced Strategic Sales Representative, to sell our IGA Solution Suite to $5B+ organizations. Primarily a SaaS offering, our IGA Solution Suite sits at the heart of an organization’s enterprise security. The position requires a sales executive who is experienced in navigating multinational accounts, generally at C level. The successful candidate will use their previous experience in SaaS, Cyber-sec or IAM/IGA to negotiate high value contracts across what is generally a lengthy sales cycle. Using the Challenger sales methodology, quota will be achieved by engaging with approximately 10 target customers: typically, there will be a large number of POC’s, BVA’s & RFP’s as a part of the sales motion. Route to market is selling to end users directly and also leveraging the support of our influential channel partners, including the GSI’s, such as Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG. Our Sales Executives gain a thorough understanding of prospective client’s business and the industry in which they compete, the corresponding IT initiatives, identifying business drivers/needs which the company can help resolve, developing compelling business value propositions for our solutions and ultimately closing business. They will also develop and maintain trusted relationships with senior level decision makers and other key buyers within the named accounts and partners.

The path to success:

• 1st month: Established internal network & led interlock meetings with virtual teams & key stakeholders. Schedule weekly 1:1 meeting cadence with your Manager with TAM review agenda. Ensure you have a buddy assigned and meet with them at least once a week. Demonstrate your understanding of financial terms and how we currently measure financial success at SailPoint. Familiarize yourself with SailPoint's language of acronyms and technical terms so you can actively participate in meetings. Ask your manager to share the strategic objectives of your department followed by your team's objectives and finally where your role fits in. Achieved “Bosun” enablement badge.
• 2nd month: Sorted TAM accounts into Sales priority order and reset/clean pipeline. Set $$ amounts next to all “A” accounts & make introductions with them. Territory plan developed, presented and signed off by Sales Management Created a stakeholder map for key partners that are influencers in your “A” accounts and devised approaches to connect with them. Presented pipeline growth plan to Management. Demonstrated SFDC hygiene with regular, accurate activity and updates. Complete the Crew Member Value Proposition Tool and schedule time with your manager to discuss.
• 3rd month: Implemented an operating cadence with virtual team (meetings in place with clear purpose) Developed strategies to approach “A” accounts - presented to Management and approved. Customers from “A” accounts know who you are – relationship maps in SFDC completed. Achieved “1st Mate” enablement badge.
• 4th month: Created Account plans for all ‘A’ accounts. Created Opportunity plans for all ‘A’ accounts. Presented forecast for self-generated opportunities & expected time/path to 1st sale. Shown progress through sales stages for any inbound/inherited opportunities (from 5-40). Achieved “Sailing Master” enablement badge.
• 6 months: Achieved strong correlation between engagement rate and all ‘A’ accounts. Achieved strong correlation between pitch rate and all ‘A’ accounts. “Quarter Master” enablement badge completed. “Captain” enablement badge completed (including stand and deliver).

Education: Preferred but not required: Bachelor's degree or global equivalent in an IT, business or sales related field.

Travel: Business travel of approximately 50 percent yearly is expected for this position.

Location: This role will be based in Delhi.

SailPoint is a leading provider of identity security for the modern enterprise. Enterprise security starts and ends with identities and their access, yet the ability to manage and secure identities today has moved well beyond human capacity. Using a foundation of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the SailPoint Identity Security Platform delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale, velocity, and environmental needs of today’s cloud-oriented enterprise. Our intelligent, autonomous, and integrated solutions put identity security at the core of digital business operations, enabling even the most complex organizations across the globe to build a security foundation capable of defending against today’s most pressing threats.

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.

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