Key Account Executive, Retail and Cpg, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · San Francisco, CA +2

Key Account Executive for Google Cloud, focusing on the Retail and CPG sectors. This role involves executive selling, building relationships with C-level executives, understanding customer business issues, and driving the adoption and consumption of Google Cloud solutions. The position requires managing the full sales cycle, developing sales strategies, and mobilizing internal and external teams to deliver business commitments and long-term growth.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and implement sales strategies to surpass business goals and build trusted, consultative relationships with customers. Leverage emerging technology trends, market analysis, and knowledge of cloud solutions to showcase how Google Cloud can transform customers' business.
  2. Manage and track the business pipeline, from lead to close, ensuring health and accurate forecasting for clear visibility into expected outcomes.
  3. Manage multi-year agreements and formulate persuasive proposals that illustrate clear return on investment (ROI) through customer business cases and comprehensive deployment plans.
  4. Mobilize internal experts, including Customer Engineering, Partner, and Post-Sales, and external partners at the right time to drive consumption and deliver a seamless customer experience.
  5. Run and manage global accounts with multiple opportunities across different functions, serving as the primary customer contact for all adoption-related activities.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in quota-carrying cloud or software sales, or consultative account management at a business-to-business (B2B) software company.
  • Experience engaging and building relationships with a wide range of internal teams and customer stakeholders.
  • Experience managing the full business cycle (e.g., pipeline management, forecasting, reporting).
  • Experience selling to enterprise accounts, selling a portfolio of products or solutions at the C-level.

Nice to have

  • Experience with consultative selling to retail or CPG executives, asking insightful, visionary questions, presenting future-forward proposals, and building multi-year account strategies and plans.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams and partners in project implementation and negotiation.
  • Experience qualifying leads and presenting the value proposition of cloud, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies against customers’ business opportunities and issues.
  • Experience with agreements structuring, partnering sophisticated commercial agreements, and supporting multi-year engagements.
  • Experience supporting enterprise organizations, expanding existing accounts, securing new customers, and accelerating consumption business.
  • Experience with business and financial acumen.

What the JD emphasized

  • quota-carrying cloud or software sales
  • selling to enterprise accounts
  • selling a portfolio of products or solutions at the C-level
  • selling to retail or CPG executives
  • business and financial acumen