Sales Account Executive

Aspen Technology; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

AspenTech is seeking a Sales Account Executive to maintain and expand relationships with strategically important customers and drive net new logo sales within assigned accounts and the region. You will represent the full range of AspenTech products and services, lead the account planning cycle, and ensure long‑term needs are met by the company.

This customer‑facing role requires self‑motivation, strong business and industry knowledge, and collaboration with marketing, pre‑sales engineering, and

Qualifications

• Demonstrated success at establishing and cultivating C‑level consultative relationships.
• Clear track record of leading and closing large/complex solution sales opportunities.
• Experience leading teams in a matrix organization with indirect supervision.
• Executive presence and demeanor a must.
• +8 years’ experience of major account management.

Responsibilities

• Proactively leads joint company– strategic and new logo account planning that develops objectives, targets, and milestones.
• Articulates solution business value to customers and coordinates cross‑functional resources to meet objectives.
• Demonstrate understanding of the customer’s business priorities and initiatives.
• Develop clear account strategy and plan with white‑space awareness.
• Owns the deal model process including proposals, contracts and pricing approvals for licenses and services.
• Manage day‑to‑day sales process and coordinate with pre‑sales engineering and sales support.

Skills

C-level relationships

Strategic account management

Enterprise software sales

Executive presence

Matrix leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

AspenTech is a leading supplier of software that optimizes process manufacturing – including oil and gas, petroleum, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and other industries that manufacture and produce products from a chemical process.

The Sales Account Executive maintains and expands relationships with strategically important customers and is responsible for net new logo sales within targeted accounts and the assigned region. Assigned to large accounts, the Sales Account Executive represents the entire range of company products and services to assigned customers whilst leading the customer account planning cycle and ensuring assigned customers’ long‑term needs and expectations are met by the company. This is a customer facing role that requires self- motivated individuals with excellent business, industry, and sales knowledge. He/she will manage assigned accounts and opportunities, collaborating with account resources from marketing, pre-sales engineering and development, to maximize revenue growth and deepen our relationships with customers.

Your Impact

• Proactively leads a joint company – strategic and new logo account planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, financial targets and critical milestones.
• Articulates solution business value to customers and leads solution development efforts that best address customer needs whilst coordinating the involvement of all necessary company personnel including support, service and management resources in order to meet account performance objectives and customers’ expectations.
• Demonstrate understanding of the customer’s business priorities and initiatives.
• Discuss relevant trends and priorities integrating industry knowledge and solution knowledge.
• Proactively assesses, clarifies and validates customer needs on an ongoing basis.
• Gather market information from multiple sources, to analyze competition and consumer/market trends.
• Achieves strategic customer objectives defined by company management.
• Completes strategic customer and new business account plans that meet company standard.
• Ensures a high degree of customer satisfaction
• Achieves assigned sales quota in designated strategic accounts.
• Closely coordinates company executive involvement with customer management.
• Develop clear and well-articulated account strategy and plan to include white-space analysis and awareness plans.
• Overall ownership of the Deal Model process for assigned clients. This includes responsibility for proposals, contracts and pricing approval for licenses and professional services.
• Manage day-to-day sales process, coordinate account meetings, and effectively use Business Consulting (Pre-Sales Engineering) and Sales Support resources.
• Understanding of and execution against expected performance metrics, i.e., customer meetings per week, customer facing time, BPRs per quarter, pipeline quantity and velocity, etc.

What You’ll Need

• Demonstrated success at establishing and cultivating “C” level consultative relationships.
• Clear track record of leading and closing large/complex solution sales opportunities.
• Experience leading teams in a matrix organization with indirect supervision.
• Executive presence and demeanor a must.
• Self-discipline and motivation with strong influencing skills.
• +8 years’ experience of major account management.
• Minimum 8 years selling enterprise software, engineering solutions a plus.
• A University degree (bachelor’s or equivalent). Additional consideration for candidates with bachelor’s degree in chemical, Industrial, Production, or Petroleum engineering.
• Experience selling to customers in the Energy/Petroleum/Engineering industry.
• Familiarity with process modeling software products and services, advance process control / real time optimization, manufacturing execution systems and planning and scheduling solutions preferred.
• Knowledge of Chemical production and supply chain business processes
• Process industry knowledge.
• International company experience.