Smb Account Executive - Africa - English or French Speaker

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland

Salesforce is hiring an SMB Account Executive to sell their AI CRM platform and Customer 360 platform to existing and new customers. The role involves managing the full sales cycle, developing new business opportunities, strengthening client relationships, and working with internal teams like Business Developers, Pre-sales, and Marketers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a dedicated customer set in the ESMB space being responsible for the full sales cycle. You coordinate several sales projects simultaneously and are fully responsible for your customer.
  2. Own the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics, with a strong emphasis on new business, while growing existing accounts.
  3. Use your solution selling expertise to respond efficiently to customer needs and identify business potential to create a strategic, long-term partnership with your customers.
  4. Strengthen client relationships through regular engagement and face-to-face meetings
  5. Prioritise and lead industry events and user groups to generate market interest.

Skills

Required

  • Demonstrated success of quota carrying, technology solution-based direct sales experience
  • Territory & Account Planning Strategies
  • Research and Discovery
  • Solutioning
  • Customer Communication
  • Resource Application
  • Team Selling

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.
  • Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).
  • Fluent in English or French