Senior Account Executive - SADA

Join SADA as a Senior Account Executive!

Your Mission 

As a Senior Account Executive at SADA, you will be critical in the Customer Growth Organization, focusing on delivering solutions, services, and customer outcomes. You will build trusted relationships with c-suite executives and sell business-transforming solutions and services that enable enterprise customers to operate at the cutting edge of cloud computing. You will be customer-centric, always searching for a way to help them unlock business value within their organization.  

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate an understanding of Google Cloud Platform offerings and the business problems they solve
• Demonstrate an understanding of the transfer of value that exists when selling professional services, operate knowledgeable regarding the corresponding deal structures and purchase mechanics.
• Establish and maintain strong co-sell relationships with key partners like Google Cloud and relevant ISVs
• Being the CEO of the  sales process by masterfully orchestrating internal resources, including Cloud Engineers, Solution Engineers, Customer Success Managers, Executive Sponsors, and more
• Effectively structure, write, deliver proposals and presentations, and overcome objections.
• Lead the development and execution of overall long-term strategy for an account, aligned to customer business objectives
• Share the WHY SADA value proposition for existing and/or new customers
• Build the executive relationships with customers to help influence their long-term technology and business decisions.
• Be viewed as a trusted advisor by bringing compelling insights and ideas with follow-through execution.

• Source, qualify and close sales with both existing and greenfield accounts,leading with solutions and professional services
• Build a robust pipeline consisting of large and medium size deals to ensure you achieve both your bookings and revenue targets.
• Manage and effectively communicate your sales forecast, including sales pipeline status and potential to achieve target bookings, as well as upside and downside risks to achieving target bookings.
• Build a sound knowledge of Google Cloud, passing your Cloud Digital Leader Certification within 3 months of joining SADA. 
• Be a team player, always strive to support your teammates and the wider SADA family. A can do attitude is key in this role. 

Pathway to Success 

#ChangeTheGame: At SADA, in the Customer Growth Organization (CGO), we are in the business of change.  The Customer is at the center of everything we do. And companies who lead with the Customer at the Center, always WIN.  We are focused on delivering critical business outcomes with leading-edge technology that is ever-evolving.  We embrace change enthusiastically and encourage agility.  The CGO team is being asked to evolve in a number of ways to focus more on services, consumption growth, and outcome based selling methods. Change is inevitable, and successful candidates embrace this change to continuously expand their skills, preparing for future customer needs. 

Expectations

Required Travel - 25% travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events. 

Customer Facing - You will interact with customers on a regular basis, sometimes daily, other times weekly/bi-weekly. Common touchpoints occur when qualifying potential opportunities, at project kickoff, throughout the engagement as progress is communicated, and at project close. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including engineers, technical project managers, and executives.

Onboarding/Training - The first several weeks of onboarding are dedicated to learning and will encompass learning materials/assignments and compliance training, as well as meetings with relevant individuals. Details of the timeline are shared closer to the start date. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience.
• 8+ years experience in selling professional and/or managed services in the technology industry. 
• Demonstrated record of consistently exceeding sales goals
• Understanding of outcome based selling is critical
• Ability to speak intellectually about GCP, Google Workspace, and managed/ professional services 
• Ability to negotiate contracts, deliverables and price
• Experience developing outcome-based sales proposals
• Strong executive presence; great verbal communication and presentation skills

Preferred Experience 

• Experience selling Google Cloud products and services or other public cloud offerings. 
• Confident and comfortable in board-room scenarios, providing advice to senior leadership and secure trusted advisor status. 
• Experience in value selling. You will be able to run Discovery sessions with multiple lines of business to understand customer pain points and business objectives. Work collaboratively with technical resources to align solutions and services to solve these problems and ultimately help transform and evolve their business. 
• Demonstrated success with large complex commercial and legal negotiations working with procurement, legal, and business teams.