Posted almost 5 years ago

The Platform Account Executive role focuses on selling custom enterprise business application development and the Salesforce platform in the Retail and Consumer Goods industry. (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/overview/) This Account Executive will formulate and execute a Platform sales strategy within a National region within Commercial sales, share intelligence with the sales teams to increase their capabilities and to drive revenue growth in this area. They will work in partnership with the existing account-owning AE's and RVP's in the regions, and will carry quota for the Platform product sales in their region.

Key to this role is your ability to articulate value, inspire and sell the Connected Customer Company future in a Cloud Computing world, specifically in the Retail and Consumer Goods vertical. As a trusted adviser and coach, you are the person with the expertise in Business and Technology Architecture that can match customer needs to the capabilities of the Salesforce Platform. You will articulate the business value of the solution through executive level time to value, ROI and TCO presentations.

In addition to the excellent sales skills the Platform Account Executive should possess application development landscape knowledge or IT expertise in combination with exceptional customer management experience at the C-level. Working closely with the entire account team to drive the customer relationship and alignment at all levels in order to execute the overall account strategy is key to your success.

Responsibilities:

Identify and develop Key Accounts to establish ongoing business based partnerships to create sustainable revenue stream and enable Account Executives to close business
• Develop and execute successful Platform sales campaigns.
• Create new leads from prospecting efforts as well as create campaigns for sectors events. Drive sales campaigns in the vertical to create opportunities and long term revenue growth
• Develop and execute the App Cloud Platform sales plans and cycles within our top tier Commercial Sales segment; focused on new business and existing customers.
• Understand company's business strategy to define architectures and solutions to support that strategy with the capabilities of the App Cloud Platform.
• Discover, qualify, strategize, solution, negotiate & close.
• Work within an account team matrix, leading decision makers & influencers towards identifying their Customer Company vision by evangelizing the capabilities of the Salesforce platform

Required Skills:
• 5+ years of demonstrated success selling software technology solutions in quota carrying role
• Demonstrated ability in selling large scale and complex technology to key accounts
• Experience managing the sales cycle from business champion to the CIO, CEO and CFO levels
• Background in technology and platform solutions such as application and mobile app development, database, business intelligence and integration
• Working knowledge of the software /App development processes
• Proven ability to work well as part of an extended sales team
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Retail/Consumer Good Industry vertical knowledge is preferred

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