Account Executive

Hitachi Vantara; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara is seeking energetic sales professionals with strong hunting skills to join our Account Executive team in Salt Lake City. The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of outside sales experience, with a track record of selling complex technical solutions to high-value clients.

You will leverage market intelligence, events, product specialists, partners, and your network to develop relationships and close new business in data storage and data management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years outside sales in new logo acquisition.
• Proven hunter with leads and access to decision-makers.
• Experience selling IT services and data storage solutions.
• Knowledge of data storage, data management and analytics.
• Relations with VARs and integrators; enterprise IT familiarity.
• Track record of hitting annual quotas; c-level engagement.
• Sales process and management experience; Salesforce usage.

Responsibilities

• Market and customer research to expand commercial insights.
• Drive high-volume prospecting to reach key decision-makers.
• Coordinate team selling with partners and specialists to close deals.
• Forecast and update activity plans in Salesforce.

Skills

Outside sales

New logo acquisition

Complex solution selling

Salesforce proficiency

Data storage knowledge

Data management

Data analytics

MS Office

Education

BA/BS degree desirable

Tools

Salesforce

MS Office

Job description

Location: Salt Lake City, United States of America

Function: (DEAI HV) AMER Sales

Requisition ID: R0145521

Our Company

We're Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world's innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers - from banks to theme parks - can focus on achieving the incredible with data. If you've seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you've seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate - and wow their customers. Right now, we're laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We're looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team - and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

• Current residency in Utah and complex storage/data center selling exerience required

Our Company

We're Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world's innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers - from banks to theme parks - can focus on achieving the incredible with data. If you've seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you've seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate - and wow their customers. Right now, we're laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We're looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team - and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

The Team

Hitachi Vantara combines technology, intellectual property, and industry knowledge to deliver data-managing solutions that help enterprises improve their customers’ experiences, develop new revenue streams, and lower the costs of business. Hitachi Vantara elevates your innovation advantage by combining IT, operational technology (OT) and domain expertise. Join our team and our employee-focused culture and help drive our customers’ data to meaningful customer outcomes.

The Role

We are seeking energetic and motivated sales professionals with strong hunting skills to join our Account Executive team. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of new account or business development experience with a proven track record of selling complex technical solutions. In your role, you will leverage market intelligence resources, customer events, product specialist, partners and your own professional network to develop new relationships and close business with high value pursuit clients.

What You’ll Bring

• Planning – conduct market and customer research to expand commercial insight necessary to build effective customer call plans and sales strategies (10%)
• Prospecting and lead management – drive a high volume of high value prospecting and business development activities, to include lead management, needed to reach key decision makers/influencers (technical and business) inside pursuit accounts (30%)
• Selling - drive account strategies and coordinate team selling efforts with partners, specialist, management and technical resources necessary to close business. (50%)
• Training – Through a rigorous and subject rich training agenda, you will become sale proficient with Hitachi Vantara’s solutions while becoming conversational ready on how Hitachi Vantara delivers business value to its customers and prospects. (5%)
• Reporting - Managing forecast and updating activity plans inside Salesforce (5%)

Qualifications

• Sales experience in infrastructure, data storage, data management or other IT services
• A minimum of 5 years of outside sales experiences specializing in new logo acquisition and/or new business development.
• An avid hunter with a proven track record of sourcing new leads and leveraging social networking to gain access to decision-makers/influencers necessary to close business.
• Relationship and sell with experiences with top VARs and Integrators. Subject matter expertise in data storage, data management, data analytics and other IT services.
• Domain knowledge of large enterprise IT environments and corporate buying centres are critical.
• Must demonstrate a consistent track record of achieving annual quota targets while providing specific details on key customer wins.
• The ideal candidate will bring an established sales management process, experience building and maintaining relationships with management and C level executives.
• A successful track record of managing and closing complex sales campaigns, using outcome and solution selling techniques is a must.
• Possesses a competitive attitude, strong work ethic and thrives in a fast pace, high growth and matrixed organizational environment.
• Must be a proficient user of Salesforce and other MS Office tools.
• Having a BA/BS degree or equivalent is desirable.

About Us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

About Us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How We Look After You

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.