Senior Account Executive

Workday Workday · Enterprise · JPN.Osaka

Workday is seeking a Senior Account Executive to drive net new customer growth for their AI platform, focusing on enterprise management cloud solutions for financials, HCM, and planning. The role involves developing sales strategies, account planning, building C-level relationships, negotiating deals, and managing sales forecasts.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop strategy for prioritizing, targeting, and closing key opportunities in assigned territory
  2. Performs account planning for assigned accounts, coordinating with pre-sales and other resources to ensure strategic alignment
  3. Initiate and support sales of Workday solutions within Large Enterprise prospects and shares Workday value proposition
  4. Be responsible for developing relationships with net new customers with a focus on deal management and connecting customers with Workday solutions, particularly core financials
  5. Negotiate deals with a variety of C-Suite Executives to close opportunities

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience selling SaaS/Cloud based ERP / HCM / Financial / Planning / or Analytics solutions to C-levels from a field sales position
  • 5+ years experience collaborating with internal teams (pre-sales, value, inside sales) to achieve quota and run multiple deals at once
  • 5+ years experience with managing longer deal cycles, including prospecting for a portion of opportunities

Nice to have

  • Proven experience understanding the strategic competitive landscape of the industry by staying up to date with trends and customer needs so you can effectively position Workday solutions within accounts
  • Able to quickly establish trust with key stakeholders
  • Prior experience with partnering with internal team members on account strategies for short and long term prospecting and territory management
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • selling SaaS/Cloud based ERP / HCM / Financial / Planning / or Analytics solutions to C-levels from a field sales position
  • collaborating with internal teams (pre-sales, value, inside sales) to achieve quota and run multiple deals at once
  • managing longer deal cycles, including prospecting for a portion of opportunities