Enterprise Account Executive - German Speaker
SonarSource
- Geneva London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Generate new leads and opportunities within an assigned territory, leading to closing business enabling you to exceed your revenue targets quarterly and yearly.
- Manage prospecting sales efforts to target key accounts and work with the channel partners to generate a pipeline in your territory.
- Use multi-channel strategy to engage with your prospects (Linked-In, email, videos, cold calls, meetings, etc.) and execute them to convert identified prospects into new logos.
- Take ownership of your book of business: document the buying criteria, the buying process, the next steps and owners, and ensure pipeline accuracy based on evidence.
- Size and quote customer software license needs.
- Interact with prospects over phone, email, video conference, and on-site meetings when necessary.
- Support marketing efforts with account-based customer-focused marketing campaigns.
- Proactively engage in building, growing, and sharing sales team best practices.
- Accurately capture and report all aspects of account and opportunity information within the SFDC platform.
- Utilize Salesforce.com to set daily activity and accurately forecast opportunity pipeline.
- Proven successful 7+ years of experience in a B2B sales role, ideally in a SaaS or subscription model.
- Focus on building and managing customer relationships.
- Experience selling a technical product to a technical buyer.
- Proven expertise in territory planning and prospecting, using various channels and tools for prospecting, such as Zoominfo, SalesLoft, LinkedIn, calling, and networking.
- Expertise in navigating and growing a pipeline in prospect accounts and taking a deal from Lead Qualification to Closed Won.
- Familiarity in supporting and selling to large enterprise customers and managing and negotiating (> 50k USD) enterprise deals.
- Ability to drive the sales process effectively through phone calls, emails, and virtual and on-site meetings.
- Proficiency in communicating with executive-level contacts and delivering value messages based on the persona you are engaging with (bottom/up and top/down approach)
- Salesforce.com expertise; you know it and can't imagine sales without it.
- Customer-Centric focus; We Want Happy Customers.
- Written and spoken English and German at a professional level.
- Strong communication and listening skills: handling objections and taking feedback and coaching.
- Team player interested in seeing the company goals achieved alongside the team and individual goals.
- Self-driven, desire to succeed, hungry and proactive attitude.
- Experience in Software Development Tooling sales or experience selling into the Development side of IT.
- Experience with selling and closing deals internationally.