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Role Overview:
As a Named Account Executive, you will own a defined book of prospects and a few customers in the Commercial Business Unit (CBU), where you'll be responsible for building long-term relationships, aligning Salesforce's value proposition to customer business objectives, and driving sustained growth.
This is a senior sales role ideal for top-performing sales professionals who are passionate about prospects and customer success, account development, and cross-functional collaboration.
Key Responsibilities:
1.Revenue Growth & Pipeline Generation
- Identify new opportunities within named prospects and customers and drive Generated Pipeline and ACV Growth
- Ensure strong participation in territory planning and forecasting activities.
2. Prospecting & Field Sales Execution
- Actively prospect greenfield accounts and whitespace within the territory.
- Run structured cold outreach campaigns (calls, emails, LinkedIn) to engage net-new logos.
- Drive face-to-face meetings and in-person customer visits as a core go-to-market motion.
- Build pipeline from the ground up, especially in underpenetrated verticals or geographies.
- Demonstrate grit, energy, and ownership in opening doors and creating new opportunities.
3. Customer Relationship Management
- Develop and nurture trusted relationships with senior stakeholders at assigned propsects and customers.
- Act as a Trusted Partner, driving customer satisfaction, retention, cross-sell and up-sell
4. Strategic Account Planning
- Lead account planning efforts, aligning with the Cloud teams to drive a unified customer strategy.
- Drive long-term account strategy based on business goals and market trends.
5. Internal Coordination & Execution
- Orchestrate cross-functional Salesforce teams and resources to meet customer needs.
- Act as a Team Seller, sponsoring deals and ensuring alignment across account teams.
6. Value Communication
- Clearly articulate Salesforce's value proposition and differentiation through value selling techniques, storytelling, and industry insights.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of quota-carrying sales experience in a B2B SaaS or cloud technology environment.
- Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets in complex enterprise deals.
- Demonstrated success prospecting new logos, cold calling and conducting in-person sales meetings.
- Strong strategic thinking, business acumen, and customer-centric mindset.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
- Experience managing and navigating large, matrix organizations.
- Familiarity with Salesforce products and ecosystem is highly desirable.
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- Culture of innovation, trust, and impact
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