Named Account Executive - Fintech

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom

Sales role focused on selling the Salesforce AI CRM platform to existing and new customers in the fintech sector. The role involves building relationships, understanding customer needs, and demonstrating the value proposition of Salesforce's AI-powered solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts
  2. Develop and drive the overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned with customer business objectives
  3. Lead the end-to-end sales process through the engagement of appropriate resources such as Sales Engineers, Professional Services, Executives, Partners, etc.
  4. Territory identification and research, to formalize a go-to-market territory strategy and create a qualified target account list within 30 days.
  5. Share Salesforce value proposition for existing and/or new customers

Skills

Required

  • Demonstrated Success of quota carrying, technology solution-based direct sales experience.
  • Account Planning Strategies: Create account plans to retain and grow ACV (Actual Contract Value) with existing accounts with a focus on upsell, and cross-sell.
  • Research and Discovery: Uncover customers’ current processes, business objectives, and strategic goals based on customer discovery, use cases, and value hypotheses.
  • Solutioning: Identifies compelling value propositions that address customer needs by demonstrating an understanding of technology solutions.
  • Customer Communication: Interacting with customers in a clear, concise, and timely manner using a variety of communication methods (writing, speech, presentation) and tools (whiteboarding, Slack, Google Slides, Zoom).
  • Resource Application: Continuously runs toward results using the full capabilities of available resources and tools.
  • Team Selling: Aligns with the full capacities of the account team and partners to support the deal and customer success.

Nice to have

  • Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
  • Sales Methodology education.
  • Ability to develop cases and service requirements, while crafting and leading strategic alliances.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Track record of consistently achieving or surpassing quota.
  • Ability to work with multiple internal teams, govern, inspire, and leverage resources to align with account objectives.
  • Experience will be evaluated based on alignment with the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

What the JD emphasized

  • quota carrying
  • technology solution-based direct sales experience
  • Account Planning Strategies
  • Research and Discovery
  • Solutioning
  • Customer Communication
  • Resource Application
  • Team Selling