Vice President - Sales Executive, Workday Focus

Sales Executive focused on Workday practice, responsible for identifying, shaping, and closing strategic sales opportunities, building client relationships, and managing the sales pipeline. This role is client-facing and involves collaboration with internal teams and alliance partners.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work closely with Principals, Partners, and Managing Directors across Enterprise Performance, Human Capital, Tax, Audit, Advisory, Industry, and Account teams to identify new opportunities related to implementing Workday Financials, Human Capital, Supply Chain, Prism, Adaptive, and Sana.
  2. Build and maintain productive, high-level relationships with alliance partners to align strategy and accelerate growth.
  3. Serve as the client-facing lead on strategic sales pursuits from opportunity identification and qualification through close.
  4. Maintain the Workday sales pipeline and report progress to service line leaders.
  5. Maintain client relationships from strategic projects through execution of sales programs.

Skills

Required

  • Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
  • Ability to lead projects or workstreams
  • Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
  • Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
  • Ability to meet deadlines
  • Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others
  • 10 years of experience managing complex clients characterized by long sales cycles and significant dollar transactions
  • Strong sales management knowledge and/or experience with implementing large Workday consulting projects
  • Proven consistent track record of delivering multimillion-dollar revenue per annum
  • Knowledge and understanding of large-scale implementations
  • Ability to develop and secure relationships with buyers, decision-makers, influencers, and referral sources across a variety of industries
  • Experience building relationships that increase account penetration and lead to increased revenue opportunities with existing clients
  • Ability to develop and utilize a pre-existing network of clients or contacts in the marketplace
  • Experience leading or supporting practice sales management activities and managing internal sales activities across geographic and industry groups
  • Experience with complex pursuit processes, proposal development, and oral presentations that win new business
  • Ability to work in a multi-layered matrix organization serving many leaders
  • Ability to travel up to 50%

Nice to have

  • Undergraduate degree
  • Success working closely with service line leaders, partners, practitioners, and other Sales Executives to develop strategies and tactics that drive targeting programs and win business

What the JD emphasized

  • 10 years of experience managing complex clients characterized by long sales cycles and significant dollar transactions
  • Proven consistent track record of delivering multimillion-dollar revenue per annum
  • Ability to develop and utilize a pre-existing network of clients or contacts in the marketplace
  • Experience with complex pursuit processes, proposal development, and oral presentations that win new business