Account Executive - Wealth & Asset Management

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · London, United Kingdom · Sales

Account Executive role at Snowflake, focusing on building client relationships within enterprise businesses, particularly in Wealth & Asset Management. The role involves prospecting, developing, and closing business, understanding client IT roadmaps, and managing ongoing account satisfaction. It emphasizes sales strategy, marketing plan development, and acting as a trusted advisor. The ideal candidate has extensive sales experience, particularly in data or cloud technology, with a strong focus on the financial services industry, and a proven track record of hitting sales quotas.

What you'd actually do

  1. Achieve sales quotas for allocated customers on a quarterly and annual basis by developing a sales strategy in the allocated territory with a target prospect list, and a regional sales plan.
  2. Develop marketing plans with the marketing team to drive revenue growth.
  3. Be the trusted advisor to the customer by understanding their existing and future IT roadmap to drive the Snowflake solution within the marketplace.
  4. Prospect qualification and the development of new sales opportunities and ongoing revenue streams.
  5. Arrange and conduct initial Executive and CxO discussions and positioning meetings.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of field sales experience preferred with an emphasis on data or cloud related technology.
  • 5+ year’s industry focused experience expanding and generating new business within existing enterprise accounts.
  • Proven ability to independently manage, develop, and close new client relationships.
  • Experience determining customer requirements and presenting appropriate solutions.
  • Executive level relationship management.
  • Ability to understand the "bigger picture" and the business drivers around IT.
  • Experience implementing MEDDPICC.

Nice to have

  • Industry specific experience.
  • Experience selling software or cloud based applications to the Enterprise is desired.

What the JD emphasized

  • Extensive experience with Financial Services and Wealth & Asset Management customers.