Strategic Sales Executive

About the Sales Crew

Our sales crew tackles their goals through a variety of roles and functions including strategy, data analysis, hiring and training, forecasting, territory design, and sales process optimization. This team is a core piece of the company's success and uses their soft skills and powers of persuasion to help communicate ideas to customers and prospective clients. On this crew you will bring your skills and innovative ideas to the table, and help us create an environment that will continue to attract the most talented professionals in the sales industry.

Sales Executive Role

We are seeking an experienced, highly motivated sales professional to manage our a sales region. This position is responsible to sell to and support both end users and channel partners, leveraging all routes to market. The Sales Executive will sell our marketing leading Identity Management solutions by gaining a thorough understanding of the client's business and the industry in which they compete, the corresponding IT initiatives, identifying needs which the company can help resolve, developing compelling business value proposals for our solutions and ultimately closing business. The Sales Executive will also develop and maintain trusted relationships with senior level decision makers and other key buyers within the named accounts and partners.

Responsibilities

• Exceed revenue quota goals on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
• Demonstrate the ability to address each customer's and partner's unique inquiry, while providing them with the proper information and appropriate solution based on the customer's specific needs and interests.
• Develop business plans, which align to the assigned geographic and business needs.
• Engage and work with business partners where appropriate.
• Collaborate with Marketing to develop and execute marketing plans through/with end users and partners.
• Follow-up on all leads supplied and ensure internal systems are updated.
• Marshal and lead the appropriate technical resources to demonstrate SailPoints’ advantages to the customer.
• Follow-up with clients and work with Sailpoint post-sale account managers to ensure consistent and ongoing coverage of account including new sales opportunities.
• Understand and work in all aspects of the sales cycle, including qualifying, presentations, demonstrations, RFP responses, negotiations and the closing process.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the territory including the customers, the prospects, the partners, the influencer's, and the competitors.
• Understand and communicate all product and technological strategies employed by competitive and complimentary organizations in the SailPoint market space.
• Maintain the highest level of customer and partner satisfaction within the accounts in your territory.
• Maintain a positive, professional 'total customer service' attitude and demonstrate the company's Core Values.
• Coordinate, plan, and schedule sales support functions with Technical Sales staff.
• Demonstrate the ability to create and manage conversations at all business and technical levels of a client's organization from their CEO to a Systems Administrator.
• Utilize all channel management and reporting tools.

Skills

• Customer Focus: Act in ways that demonstrate customer focus and satisfaction by building effective relationships with customers, identifying, meeting and exceeding customer expectations, and by treating customers with dignity and respect.
• Partner Focus: Act in ways that demonstrate partner focus and satisfaction by building effective relationships with partners, identifying, meeting and exceeding partner expectations, and by treating partners with dignity and respect.
• Territory Management: Manage territory, considering each and all accounts collectively; establish accurate plans and forecasts; prioritize efforts; generate short term results while holding a long-term perspective to maximize overall territory viability.
• Effective Communication: Deliver oral an