Senior Strategic Account Executive Job Description
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Senior Strategic Account Executive Job Description
- Strategically plan, negotiate and influence the interactions and relationships with customers, their brokers/consultants and internal team members to achieve strategic account goal
- Responsible for value delivery to customer including plan performance, account management and service result
- Meet and exceed quarterly revenue targets by driving new opportunities and selling software solutions into enterprise accounts in the Nordic Region
- Develop and maintain a pipeline through a combination of cold calling and market sector knowledge/intelligence to ensure over-achievement
- Provide energetic, enthusiastic account team to support to a broad range of financial communications, corporate communications and M&A/transaction client accounts
- Manage client expectations and anticipate their needs
- Work alongside colleagues to ensure timescales and quality assurance are adhered to
- Ensure client programmes are agreed and project plans are in place
- Proactively take ownership of research projects and others client / team needs to ensure work is delivered promptly, to a high standard
- Support on the management of clients’ financial reporting schedules and processes
- Hardware), with evidence of prior success in Sales
- Demonstrable experience in sales of complex business software / IT solutions
- Ability to manage a lengthy and complex sales cycle and proven ability to identify, qualify, develop and close opportunities
- Knowledge and experience of selling SaaS, PaaS or possibly hardware although selling complex infrastructure software solutions (SOA/BPM/BAM/BI/Analytics/MDM and other data related solutions) is preferred
- Determine methods and procedures on new assignments, and may provide guidance to others on the team
- Display the ability to communicate complex topics to an audience who may posses limited functional/technical knowledge
Senior Strategic Account Executive Job Description
- Anticipate potentially challenging situations and evaluate alternatives with senior team
- Assist senior team members in creatively preparing and delivering client programmes
- Provide energetic, enthusiastic account support to a broad range of corporate communications client accounts with an emphasis on media and stakeholder engagement
- Take ownership of research projects and other client / team needs to ensure work delivered promptly, to a high standard
- Assist senior team members in creatively preparing and delivering the client programme
- Deliver research proposals
- Meet and exceed quarterly revenue targets by driving new opportunities and selling software solutions in the DACH accounts
- Identify new strategic sales opportunities by working directly with C-level and VP-level client executives to understand client financial priorities and the strategic initiatives designed to deliver them
- Propose, advance and close new agreements for solutions that grow client revenue, reduce operational costs, or mitigate overall risk for the client
- Renew and grow existing business by collaborating with the client to identify and implement improvements to solution fit, delivery, and overall impact to the business
- Contributes, presents and may organize and/or run meetings
- May mentor others in a specialty or discipline
- Current experience of relevant media contacts and analysts, with the desire to develop these further
- Recent experience in the Technology, Media and Telecoms sectors within current PR or in-house communications role an advantage
- Ability to work effectively within a busy team and the ability to prioritise a varied workload
- Takes a pragmatic and ‘can do’ approach, demonstrating high levels of personal responsibility and task ownership
Senior Strategic Account Executive Job Description
- Background in Financial Services or related field sales
- Ability to work well in a team environment and provide leadership when called upon
- Meet and exceed quarterly revenue targets by driving new opportunities and selling software solutions in the UKI accounts
- Protect our current base through and grow our Autoimmune business in all key markets
- Handle all aspects of client relationship management for specific assigned accounts
- Lead a client, rather than take orders
- Collaborate with other team members to develop and present strategies and appropriate POVs to clients
- Run the job intake process, including leading project kick-off meetings and weekly status-meetings
- Facilitate creative brainstorming and requirements definition sessions
- Work with the internal team to develop a realistic project estimate at the same time keeping within the restraints of the client
- 8-15 years external experience with proven consultative sales, preferably experience in high technology (services, software or
- Experience of financial communications would be preferable
- Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of work-related experience, or Master’s degree and 1 year of work-related experience, or 5 years equivalent work-related experience
- Successful history of net new business sales is a must
- Coalition experience
- Excellent stakeholder engagement capability
Senior Strategic Account Executive Job Description
- Use knowledge of company products and services to provide end users with information and promote product sales
- Manage the budget lifecycle, project schedule, and evolving set of deliverables and requirements
- Think strategically at a high-level, alongside handling the details in the weeds of a given project
- Help internal team members stay on task and on time
- Develop and lead client budget projections, status tracking and project billing
- Promote the expansion of creative projects with existing clients
- Lead agency resourcing needs and projections for assigned projects/clients
- Advise, motivate, train, and mentor direct reports
- Delegate to direct reports while ensuring quality work and ultimate responsibility for all projects, tasks, timelines, and budgets
- Lead / support on the execution of communications programmes
- Time management and the ability to prioritise a varied workload
- Over 2 years’ previous experience of in a PR agency role or in-house corporate communications role
- 4+ years successful experience in diagnostic capital equipment or diagnostic medical device sales
- Cultivating, leveraging, and developing long-term customer relationships, including “C” level and Senior VP level relationships, with the ability to identify and capitalize on opportunities that immediately satisfy customer needs
- Consistently met and exceeded sales targets (solid career track record in sales)
- Knowledgeable of the sales process and effective sales techniques
Senior Strategic Account Executive Job Description
- To support in the drafting of client plans and proposals
- Develop content ideas, showing strong insights into the news agenda
- Writing of press releases, commentaries and statements
- Supporting on issues management, including drafting of Q&A statements
- One of the main points of contact for client handling, offering counsel and insights
- Manages assigned accounts with a focus on client trend management, strategic plan development and execution, cultivating multi-level client relationships and manages staff, indirectly
- Monitor and management financial guarantees and reconciliations including audit activity
- Develop C-Suite and key influencer relationships within client, marketplace, and consultant/brokers
- Coordinate and deliver quarterly performance reviews and capability discussions including identification of cost drivers, recommendations for cost savings opportunities, utilization and cost reports, and industry news
- Provides training, support and direction to other team members, as necessary
- Excellent computer literacy with a variety of software packages
- Prospecting and networking – able to use referrals and contacts to build networks, can engage prospects in discussion naturally
- Current drivers licence and car
- Valid work rights for Australia
- Ability to foster and grow relationships that will facilitate and resolve client issues
- Demonstrated high dollar value account management ($3 million plus)