Strategic Account Executive, Utilities Install Base | EAM, AIP - Copperleaf

IFS; Itasca (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

401K with company contribution

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Tuition assistance

Community volunteering events

Job summary

IFS is seeking a Strategic Account Executive for Utilities Install Base | EAM, AIP in the Copperleaf partnership. You will own key accounts, drive opportunities, and manage cross-functional teams to close deals with C-level executives in the U.S.

This full‑time, hybrid role offers a salary range of $140,000–$160,000 plus 100% variable with uncapped OTE; travel up to 50% and a track record of enterprise software sales in asset-intensive industries are required.

Qualifications

• Experience selling enterprise software to C-level executives.
• Ability to navigate complex organizations and large accounts.
• Experience with complex software sales, solution selling and value-based selling.
• Strong presentation skills and strategic thinking.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time.
• Experience in asset-intensive industries (Utilities, Oil & Gas, Mining, Public Sector or Transportation) is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Build a network of relationships across accounts and levels of the organization.
• Understand challenges in portfolio planning and asset management; link to Copperleaf value.
• Co-create solution roadmaps with accounts where appropriate.
• Drive procurement and commercial processes to close business.
• Lead a Copperleaf deal team to support solution definition and sales.
• Maintain an accurate CRM pipeline with prospects and suspects.

Skills

Enterprise software sales

Strategic account mgmt

Cross-functional leadership

Presentations

Travel readiness

Job description

Strategic Account Executive, Utilities Install Base | EAM, AIP - Copperleaf

• Full-time

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

As one of Copperleaf’s Account Managers you will be assigned customer accounts and drive the identification and qualification of opportunities while executing account strategy and generating license, support and services revenues. This role is focused on working with established Copperleaf and IFS clients.

Your role will include the following activities:

• Work with your assigned accounts to build a network of relationships across multiple functional areas and levels of the organization
• Deeply understand each account’s challenges and opportunities in the portfolio planning and asset management spaces. Identify how Copperleaf can make a difference to the account’s business and to the personal success of our champions
• Co-create a solution roadmap with accounts where it makes sense for us to engage
• Drive the procurement and commercial processes to successfully close business.
• Lead a Copperleaf “deal team” to support both solution definition and sales process execution
• Champion the needs of your customer and your deal internally within Copperleaf
• Continuously gather knowledge of competitors and how to effectively position our solution
• Drive a sales process that will highlight our solution as a strategic advantage to the prospect
• Routinely discuss and communicate opportunity plan sales strategy with other members of the account team, as well as field and corporate management
• Maintain an accurate and documented pipeline of opportunities (prospects and suspects) within CRM

• You naturally connect with people and make friends wherever you go
• You are focused on creating great outcomes for your customers and love to see their success
• You love challenges and are driven to win
• You have strong skills in problem solving and strategic thinking
• You have experience and are comfortable selling enterprise software to C level executives
• You know how to navigate complex organizations and have experience with complex software sales, solution selling and value based selling
• You can position new business within the account by developing, communicating and driving effective selling strategies that are based on a customer-specific value proposition
• You enjoy leading a cross-functional team to drive results
• You have dynamic presentation skills, the ability to articulate customer problems and challenges, and then link them to the value proposition
• You have general familiarity with consultative selling methodologies
• You enjoy travelling and are willing to spend 50% of your time visiting clients or attending industry events in the region (during COVID, travel expectations will vary based on target account locations and relevant Copperleaf guidelines, account guidelines, and local/federal regulations)
• Experience in asset intensive industries such as Utilities, Oil & Gas, Mining, Public Sector or Transportation is desirable

What We’re Offering

• Salary Range:$140,000 to $160,000 plus 100% variable
• OTE Range: $280,000 to $320,000uncapped with accelerators
• Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
• 401K with Company contribution
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Tuition assistance
• Community involvement and volunteering events

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. VEVRAA Federal Contractor, Equal Opportunity Employer