Named Account Executive

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Sales

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Our Account Executives engage with existing customers and new leads to sell the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform. They build positive, trusted relationships with both key team members and c-suite decision makers within their patch, and become natural at helping customers realise value from their Salesforce investments. You will use your skills to develop opportunities, through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.

Responsibilities:

• Work in lockstep with the lead Account Managers in Johannesburg to develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction.

• Develop and drive the overall long-term strategy for the accounts, aligned with customer business objectives.

• Lead the end-to-end sales process through the engagement of appropriate resources such as Sales Engineers, Professional Services, Executives, Partners, etc.

• Evangelise the benefits of the Salesforce Customer 360 proposition.

• Drive growth across our customers and prospects in Retail and Financial Services verticals. 

• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to manage complex deal cycles. 

• Provide a level of deep technical knowledge of the Salesforce Customer 360, and how it fits within the customer landscape. 

• Build and execute a whitespace penetration plans. 

​Required Qualifications:

• Account Planning and Strategies: Establishes plans to achieve sales objectives by effectively identifying and qualifying opportunities

• Research and Discovery: Uncovers a prospect’s current processes, business challenges, and strategic goals based on customer use cases and value hypotheses

• Solutioning: Identifies compelling value propositions that address customer needs by demonstrating a deep understanding of technology solutions

• Communication: Interacting with customers in a clear, concise, and timely manner using a variety of communication methods (writing, speech, presentation) and tools (whiteboarding, Google Slides, Zoom)

• Resource Application: Continuously runs toward results using the full capabilities of available resources and tools.

• Team Selling: Aligns with the full capacities of the account team and partners to support the deal and customer success

• Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role as a New Market Account Executive.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills

• Sales Methodology Education

• Ability to develop cases and service requirements, while crafting and leading strategic alliances.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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