Job Description:

Job Description

The Account Executive position is an outside sales opportunity. Focus will be on understanding total market opportunity, identifying potential clients, developing relationships, driving the sales process, and closing new business. Successful candidates will possess excellent communication and organizational skills, a proven sales track record of success or leadership experience in Behavioral Health, and the demonstrated ability to work both independently and within a team.
Responsibilities
• Manage a full sales cycle including prospect identification, qualification, demo & close.
• Exceed quota on a quarterly and annual basis.
• Continuously build and maintain a high-quality sales pipeline - lead generation (including cold calling) required while also pursuing and managing leads provided by inside sales lead team.
• Design, plan, and implement a quality and needs-driven sales demonstration program (to include determining sales/demo objectives and designing demo scenarios to meet internal and external requirements)
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers in a team selling environment.
• Attend key trade shows in your region along with building relationships with current customers and state key influencers in behavioral health to drive overall market penetration strategy.
• Maintain detailed notes on deal progress using Salesforce.com.
• Communicate effectively with C-level prospects and customers.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new information, follow designated methodologies. Must have desire/willingness to adopt and execute lead generation and sales processes including cold calling activities.
Knowledge & Application
• Demonstrates ability to uncover and access underlying business needs and develop compelling solution/sales messaging.
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills.
• High attention to details, diligent in documentation and very organized.
• Competitive drive, self-starter, resourceful, collaborative, and coachable.
• Strong software skills, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong strategic planning and activity implementation skills (critical thinking, researching, organization, prioritization, and action orientation) required to create and deliver robust territory plans including call activity, marketing campaigns, top account identification, quarterly forecasting, and pipeline management. A new customer acquisition sales mindset (versus account management) with evidence of exceeding sales quotas or other aggressive business goals for several years.
• Familiar with standard computer technologies (SaaS) and architecture fundamentals.
• Working knowledge of Salesforce or other CRM/Sales management tools.
Minimum Degree and Experience
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
• At least two years demonstrated success working directly with behavioral/mental health organizations with strong knowledge/understanding around Electronic Health Records and demonstrated ability to develop business relationships and opportunities through relationship building and influence at the C-level. May consider individuals outside of behavioral health if they have successfully sold other types of enterprise level technology solutions into new markets (ideally complex, high value SaaS deals with long sales cycles in a healthcare vertical)
• Experience proactively engaging external prospects/leads, donors, or other "buyers" at both the staff/user and executive level.
• Experience in handling complex projects with many internal coordination points, multi-level/ multi-department external stakeholders and extended timelines.
• Demonstrated success in SaaS sales or behavioral healthcare leadership roles.