Corporate Account Manager, UK

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Reading, United Kingdom

This role is for a Corporate Account Manager at CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company that uses an AI-native platform. The role focuses on managing existing enterprise customers, ensuring their success and adoption of CrowdStrike's endpoint technology, identifying upsell/cross-sell opportunities, and managing contract renewals. The role involves a full sales cycle and requires strong technical aptitude and communication skills. While the company uses AI, this role is in sales and account management, not directly building or researching AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the primary point of contact for clients while collaborating with various internal stakeholders (Customer Success, Managed Services, etc.) to ensure the existing customer base is receiving the value they expect from their previous purchase
  2. Manage the contract renewal cycle from scheduling initial meetings through negotiation, contract changes, and signature while ensuring customers renew at an escalated ARR rate.
  3. Achieve a quota of new sales growth within the customer base.
  4. Be a customer advocate, driving relationships with key customers and creating new champions.
  5. Identify whitespace in accounts and create value-based presentations to promote upgrades and cross-sells.

Skills

Required

  • Experience of full sales cycle experience in account management or net new logo capacity, selling to a technical audience such as engineers, IT, security, and other related fields.
  • Strong ability to run a discovery, manage full sales cycle, handle objections, implement a multi-faceted sales strategy such as working with partners, and close deals.
  • Light experience and/or understanding of sales frameworks such as MEDDPICC and Sandler
  • Track record of meeting or exceeding expectations in an individually focused, quota and/or metric carrying role.
  • Ability to successfully balance a wide variety of daily tasks and adjust priorities on the fly in a fast-paced environment over multiple engagements.
  • Strong technical aptitude and ability to learn new concepts quickly.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills demonstrated through email, conference calls, client visits and presentations, and internal meetings
  • High level of comfort handling client objections and negotiations.

Nice to have

  • Cyber Security industry experience
  • Security and/or SaaS Sales experience
  • Advanced experience and/or understanding of sales frameworks such as MEDDPICC and Sandler

What the JD emphasized

  • full sales cycle experience
  • quota and/or metric carrying role
  • full sales cycle
  • quota and/or metric carrying role