Job DescriptionOverview of Job Function: The Account Executive is responsible to drive business in assigned accounts (new and installed as assigned) with a concentration on new add-on business and product expansion across the within Latin America region
. The AE is expected to identify, drive, and sell Verint solutions and maintain effective account relationships within their assigned territory. The AE is responsible to own and set the account strategy and vision, and develop a plan to execute the tactics and strategies necessary to hit both quarterly and annual sales objectives. The Account Executive will actively seek out new sales leads and business opportunities through networking and business referrals to identify necessary decision makers and drive complex deals to completion in a matrixed environment within the Caribbean and Latin America region.
Principal Duties and Essential Responsibilities:- Execute the Company's sales strategies and achieve established sales quota in the assigned territory by identifying business opportunities through territory management, target account prospecting, and profiling.
- Responsible to lead all regularly scheduled calls and assign tasks with accountability to the virtual team members.
- Owns the Executive relationships and responsible for understanding the customers' business needs and direction.
- Be up to speed with all current events within the account, understand the political landscape, be able to manage relationships at all levels, and be able to map our solutions to help them meet their business objectives.
- Develops and owns the overall sales pipeline and responsible for both closing and prospecting into Verint's top accounts.
- Effectively conducts interaction with accounts at all levels; face-to-face calls, conference calls, webex, and email communications.
- Provide effective sales presentations and product demonstrations to assigned customers and prospects.
- Maintain effective relationships with established customers and develop strategies to maximize revenue opportunities through increased portfolio usage.
- Provide the sales management team with accurate and timely reporting of activities including weekly and monthly sales forecasts, the status of the sales pipeline and results of prospecting activities.
- Provide routine and accurate updates to the Company's sales database with account activity and status.
- Maintain a comprehensive and ongoing knowledge of Verint products and technology, as well as industry trends.
Minimum Requirements: • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
• Five (5) years of quota-carrying experience selling SaaS, B2B applications, or other enterprise software experience.
• Proven track record of exceeding quota attainment.
• Bilingual- Spanish and English
• Must be able to effectively prospect and identify business opportunities, conduct needs analysis and present and close solutions sales to targeted accounts in a team selling environment.
• Effective and Professional presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal are required with the ability to penetrate and establish relationships with customer's senior level executives.
• Ability to partner with multiple sales channels both internally (product experts, Sales consultants) and externally (channel partners).
• Travel approximately 50-75%.
• Successful completion of a background screening process including, but not limited to, employment verifications, criminal search, OFAC, SS Verification, as well as credit and drug screening, where applicable and in accordance with federal and local regulations
• The ability to obtain the necessary credit line required to travel
Preferred Requirements:- Working knowledge of value added ROI business process sales engagements / tools.
- Ability to speak and write English and Portuguese Fluently.
