Named Account Executive - Public Sector

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Sales

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Department And Role Description:

Salesforce for Government delivers business value applications to Central, Devolved, and Local Government departments.

Salesforce for Government enables departments to build stronger connections between citizens, employees, governments and services, enabling departments to become more responsive, effective, and above all, efficient.

The Salesforce for Government proposition is based on transforming citizen user experience whilst at the same time driving departmental and technology efficiencies through a platform driven approach.

We are hiring for a new business sales professional to join the Public Sector Enterprise Sales team. The role will focus on driving expansion in the UK market.

This is an outstanding career option for a sales professional looking to further their new business sales career in a fast paced dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• To exceed monthly/quarterly sales targets by driving new opportunities and selling salesforce.com solutions into the Public Sector
• You will manage the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics, with a strong emphasis on new business sales, while expanding existing accounts.
• Territory identification and research of whitespace accounts, to formalise a go to market territory strategy and create qualified target account list within 30 days.
• Pipeline development through a combination of cold calling, email campaigns and market sector knowledge/intelligence.
• Create and maintain a sales pipeline to ensure over-achievement.
• Engage with prospect organisations to position salesforce.com solutions through strategic value based selling, business case definition, return on investment analysis, references and analyst data.
• Manage the end to end sales process through engagement of appropriate resources such as Sales Engineers, Professional Services, Executives, Partners etc.
• Generate short term results whilst maintaining a long term perspective to maximise overall revenue generation.
• Provide accurate monthly forecasting and revenue delivery.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive, relevant experience of selling enterprise software solutions, ideally business applications gained within a major software vendor.
• Preferred experience selling into Public Sector, different enterprise backgrounds considered.
• Successful history of net direct new business sales, with the ability to prove consistent delivery against targets.
• Demonstrable track record of sales over achievement.
• Credibility at all levels and evidence of building strong relationships internally and with the customer.
• Current full driving license.
• Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

Across all sales teams, we are looking for the following attributes:

Strong Executive presence and gravitas

Consultative sales experience

Self starter

Strong prospecting Skills

Strong Communication and collaboration skills

Has a drive for results

Building partner coalitions in support of propositions

Key Functional Competencies:

• Communication Methods
• Objection Handling
• Industry Foundations
• Value Discovery
• Account Team Alignment
• Cross Group Alignment
• Executive Alignment
• PoV Development
• Forecasting
• Territory Planning

Our investment in you:

• World class enablement and on-demand training - check out Trailhead.com for a sneak peek!
• Sandler Sales Training
• Week-long product bootcamp
• Fast Ramp mentorship program
• Weekly 1:1 coaching with your leadership
• Clear path to promotion with accelerated leadership development programs
• Exposure to executive thought leaders with a passion for living our values

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We have a public-facing website that explains our various benefits for:

• Health Benefits
• Financial Benefits and perks
• Time off & leave policies
• Parental benefits
• Perks and discounts
• Visit https://www.getsalesforcebenefits.com/en for the full breakdown!

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