Senior Account Executive - Customer Base

Workday Workday · Enterprise · Johannesburg, South Africa

Senior Account Executive for Workday's existing customer base, focusing on upselling SaaS/Cloud based ERP/HCM/Financial/Planning/Analytics solutions. Requires extensive experience in consultative selling, account planning, and relationship management within large enterprise accounts.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with existing customers with a focus on upselling via deal management
  2. Perform account planning for assigned accounts, coordinating with pre-sales and other resources to ensure strategic alignment
  3. Drive strategic add-on and renewal business of Workday solutions within Large Enterprise customers
  4. Coordinate cross functionally with Workday’s internal teams (pre-sales, digital, value & bid-management, marketing, technical and sales support)

Skills

Required

  • SaaS/Cloud based ERP / HCM / Financial / Planning / or Analytics solutions sales
  • Negotiating deals with C-Suite Executives
  • Building relationships with existing customers for add-on business
  • Developing long-term account strategies
  • Managing longer deal cycles
  • Understanding of the strategic competitive landscape
  • Leveraging and partnering with internal teams
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • 4+ years of experience selling SaaS/Cloud based ERP / HCM / Financial / Planning / or Analytics solutions to C-levels from a field sales position
  • 4+ years experience negotiating deals with a variety of C-Suite Executives to close opportunities
  • 4+ years experience with building relationships with existing customers for add-on or incremental business
  • 4+ years experience in developing long-term account strategies with existing customers