Enterprise Account Executive - Manufacturing

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · Tokyo, Japan · Sales

This role is for an Enterprise Account Executive focused on the Manufacturing industry in Tokyo, Japan. The role involves understanding customer needs, presenting Snowflake's data platform, developing sales strategies, and achieving sales targets. While the company emphasizes an 'agentic enterprise' and AI as a collaborator, the core function of this role is sales, not building or directly working with AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Become an expert in Snowflake products, delivering discovery calls, customized demos, and prospect presentations.
  2. Become a trusted advisor by understanding customers' existing and future IT roadmaps, and driving Snowflake solutions within the market.
  3. Prospect qualification, new logo acquisition, and ongoing existing customer development.
  4. Drive sales opportunities within assigned accounts, including adoption, expansion, and deepening.
  5. Develop sales strategies using target prospect lists and account plans, and achieve revenue targets in assigned accounts/territories on a quarterly and annual basis.

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of field sales experience in the SaaS industry targeting the manufacturing industry.
  • Proficiency in building, managing, and developing relationships with new customers, and closing deals.
  • Experience strategically developing new business through creative prospecting.
  • Ability to independently create account plans and sales strategies.
  • Experience in value selling, accurately identifying customer challenges and proposing appropriate solutions and expected outcomes.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Ability to approach executives directly and build long-term relationships.
  • Ability to involve the right people internally and externally to achieve results quickly and effectively.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with various departments and demonstrate a 'One Team' mindset.

Nice to have

  • Business English proficiency.