Named Account Executive- Oil&gas

**Job Category **:Sales

**Job Details**:
**Named Account Executive - Oil&Gas**:
**About Salesforce**
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**Your Impact**:
The **Account Executive, Enterprise Sales **will be growing and handling subsets within the Enterprise accounts. Your role includes partnering with our Strategic Account Managers to promote the Salesforce vision and account strategy. You will work closely with current and prospective customers as a trusted advisor to deeply understand their outstanding company challenges and goals. You will advise customers on the Salesforce Platform to promote solutions that will help them reach their business goals and blaze new trails within their organizations.

**Some of your main results will include**:

- Lead the end to end sales process through engagement of appropriate resources such as Sales Engineers, Professional Services, Marketing, Partners etc.
- Use your solution selling expertise to respond efficiently to customer needs and identify business potential in order to to build a strategic, long-term partnership with your customers.
- Strengthen client relationships through regular engagement and face-to-face meetings.
- Prioritize and lead industry events and user groups to generate market interest.
- Contribute to Salesforce growth by engaging with prospect organizations to position Salesforce solutions through strategic value based selling, business case definition, ROI analysis, references and analyst data.
- Exceed monthly/quarterly sales targets by selling Salesforce solutions within an assigned subset of major account/customer or vertical market.
- Territory/Vertical identification and research to formalize a go to market strategy and build qualified target accounts.
- Maintaining a long term perspective to improve overall revenue generation while being able to generate short term results.
- Build and maintain a sales pipeline to ensure over-achievement within the designated market sector(s).

**What we are looking for**:

- Strong preference for Enterprise Cloud Solutions/ Applications.
- Ideally 10+ years of outside enterprise sales experience.
- Shown experience of quota carrying software or technology sales and account management experience.
- Successful history of net direct new business sales, with the ability to prove consistent delivery against revenue targets.
- Experience leading the sales cycle from business champion to C Level. Experience leading and closing sophisticated sales cycles and demonstrated ownership and self-sufficiency in all aspects of territory management.
- Proven track record of exceeding sales quota.
- Ability to seek, generate and close new businesses in greenfields.
- Ability to understand the needs of the clients, leadership skills and engaging other areas.
- Previous Sales Methodology training, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) experience, and strong customer references.
- **Key Responsibilities**
- Develop key customer collaborator relationships and drive customer happiness at assigned accounts
- Develop and drive the overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned to customer business objectives
- Coordinate internal Salesforce resources to meet customer business needs
- Perform account planning at assigned accounts, coordinating with Prime and Cloud sales resources to ensure strategic alignment
- Share Salesforce value proposition for existing and/or new customers
- Drive growth within new and existing, assigned accounts (upper Commercial Segment and Enterprise accounts)
- **Key Functional Competencies**
- Business Foundations
- Industry Foundations
- Value Calculation
- Point of View Development
- Value Realization
- Account Team Alignment
- Executive Alignment

**Benefits**:

- Health Insurance for you and your family
- Wellness and Education reimbursements
- Employee Stock Purchase progra