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Acquisition Account Executive
Location
United States
Posted
71 days ago
Salary
$115K - $130K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Acquisition Account Executive
Skillsoft
• Drive growth: Consistently deliver top-line revenue through new customer acquisition, surpassing quota targets and securing high-value enterprise wins. • Work with a handful of high potential growth customers • Prospect relentlessly: Build and maintain a robust pipeline, targeting Fortune 1000 and large enterprise organizations. • Consult at the executive level: Partner with senior decision makers to identify pain points and present Skillsoft’s Content and Platform as transformative solutions for their organization. • Execute complex cycles: Run multi-threaded sales cycles, engaging multiple stakeholders across IT, HR, Finance, and business units. • Partner cross-functionally: Work with specialist reps on cross-sell opportunities for new customers. • Hunt aggressively: Apply a disciplined, process-driven sales approach. Selling is based on a process driven approach — X number of outreaches, Y conversations, Z meetings to build 4-5X coverage in pipeline. • Collaborate broadly: With related sales, marketing, and support resources in the successful advancement of critical opportunities and market penetration. • Prepare thoroughly for meetings with deep account research, executive-level agendas, and customized presentations coupled with impeccable follow-up. • Master methodology: Develop deep expertise in Skillsoft’s sales plays, leveraging advanced strategies to engage, influence, and close complex deals with senior decision makers. • Negotiate & close strategically: Maximize deal value and minimize time to close. • Drive transformation: Shape and deliver business objectives that enable measurable impact and enterprise-wide change. • Provide management: Communicate pipeline health, risk factors, opportunities, and progress to management for informed decision-making.
Job Requirements
- Minimum 8+ years of direct sales experience, selling SaaS, B2B, enterprise software to VP, SVP, and C-Level Executives with outstanding quota attainment history.
- Ability to exceed sales targets, a keen understanding of the steps involved in a sales cycle and ability to leverage each stage to advance the sale.
- Proficient knowledge/usage of Salesforce.com and MS Office Suite; disciplined in CRM hygiene and pipeline management.
- Ability to prospect with a structured activity model to maximize revenue growth and to navigate through complex organizations and sell to multiple decision-makers, including the “C Suite”
- Skilled at demonstrating solutions and speaking the language of corporate buyers and respectfully challenge their thinking.
- Ability to collaborate and leverage subject matter expertise in a matrixed sales environment, as well as operate with a sense of urgency, be aggressive, competitive, and demonstrate a positive, winning attitude.
- Ability to understand complex client requirements and to clearly articulate the company’s offerings to develop solutions to meet those requirements.
- Possess a disciplined, process-oriented approach to customer acquisition.
- Travel: up to 30-35%.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- paid time off
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