Commercial Account Executive (Postcode 4 and 5)

Commvault; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Commvault is seeking a Commercial Account Executive to drive new logo acquisition within a defined territory, engaging with customers and partners to expand the pipeline. The role focuses on selling complex software platforms and leveraging a robust partner ecosystem.

The AE will manage territory planning, establish strategic partner relations, and present compelling business cases to close deals, aligning Commvault solutions with client goals and data protection needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required and 5+ years of proven software sales experience.
• Experience selling with channel partners and building partner relationships.
• Strong communication skills and an understanding of storage management industry.

Responsibilities

• Identify and qualify leads, and generate new business opportunities to achieve revenue quota.
• Maintain a high level of face-to-face meetings with customers, prospects and partners.
• Develop territory plans leveraging partners and existing relationships to build a robust pipeline of new logo opportunities.
• Build strategic relationships with local partners to aid in pipeline generation.
• Lead partner relationships and enable partner sales and technical programs.
• Present sales proposals to clients with quantifiable business cases and value propositions.
• Negotiate and close deals following company practices and processes.
• Utilize internal sales tools to drive opportunities to a successful close.

Skills

Bachelor’s degree

Software sales

Channel partnerships

Storage management knowledge

Excellent communication

IT infrastructure background

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

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About Commvault

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data.

The Commercial Account Executive is responsible for achieving quota by selling solutions into a defined territory that includes current Commvault customers and prospects. The position is a field sales account role where the AE will engage in face-to-face sales with customers either directly or through partners. The Account Executive (AE) is responsible for territory planning, new account acquisition and servicing existing clients while working with local resellers and alliance partners. The AE must articulate an in-depth understanding of the prospect’s environment, current challenges/goals and have the ability to align Commvault solutions to those challenges/goals including a financial and strategic value proposition. The candidate must have a history of success in selling complex software platforms (vs. IT component or narrow focused tools) to new logo accounts and have significant experience selling within the local partner ecosystem.

Position Responsibilities

• Identify and qualify leads, and generate new business opportunities in order to achieve revenue quota on a quarterly and annual basis
• Maintain a high level of face-to-face meeting activity with customers, prospects and partners on a weekly basis
• Develop a territory plan to best leverage partners, alliances and existing relationships to build and maintain a robust pipeline of new logo opportunities
• Identify and build strategic relationships with local partners to aid in pipeline generation
• Lead partner relationships, assist in rolling out partner programs and partner sales and technical enablement
• Cultivate strategic working relationships with clients, maintaining a high level of contact
• Prepare and present sales proposals and presentations to new and existing clients with quantifiable business cases and strategic and technical value propositions
• Negotiate and close deals following the company’s practices and processes
• Leverage internal sales tools and processes to drive opportunities to a successful close.
• Ensure orders meet all legal and financial requirements
• Plan, attend and coordinate executive briefings
• Maintain a high level of relevant industry, Commvault and driven knowledge

Position Requirements

Who you are…

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of five years’ proven success in software sales
• Understanding of the storage management industry, products, competitors, history, emerging trends and changing marketplace
• Minimum of two years’ success in identifying, building relationships and selling with channel partners
• Excellent communication skills, persuasive, listening skills
• Background in IT infrastructure

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