Bottomline Technologies

Channel Sales Executive

Bottomline Technologies$80K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent work experience
  • 5+ years of experience selling SaaS solutions to corporate finance executives
  • Strong Will to Win and Growth Mindset
  • Effective sales and relationship-building skills
  • Superior product knowledge of PMX
  • Excellent follow-up skills with a sense of urgency
  • Ability to manage multiple opportunities across various sales stages

Responsibilities

  • Build and strengthen relationships with Bank Teams
  • Collaborate throughout the sales process from discovery to implementation
  • Serve as the lead point of contact for customer matters
  • Forecast and track key account metrics in the pipeline
  • Create and manage target call lists for prospecting KPIs
  • Lead demonstrations of the PMX platform to clients
  • Continuously improve internal sales processes

Benefits

  • Access to ongoing learning opportunities
  • Participation in professional societies
  • Opportunity to work with senior management and diverse teams
  • Gain deep industry knowledge on payables trends
  • Work in a collaborative environment
  • Flexible travel requirements as needed
Full Job Description
The Role:

As a key member of the Paymode Channel Sales Team, the Channel Sales Executive (CSE) is a full-time position focused on driving new Paymode Sales, through our Bank Partners. Channel Sales Executives are responsible for building and strengthening relationships with Bank Teams and will partner, both internally and externally, throughout the sales cycle: training channel sales teams, analyzing and prospecting within customer portfolios, reviewing pre-sales qualifications, identifying business drivers, and providing solution requirements and technical guidance.

The CSE will partner with Bank Sales Officers, Relationship Managers and Solution Engineers. They are accountable for taking ownership of deal and pipeline success, including managing and tracking sales activity within Salesforce. The position requires ongoing learning to ensure industry knowledge of payables trends that our Bank Partners and their clients are experiencing, in addition to a deep understanding of the PMX platform and its capabilities. A successful CSE relies upon credible relationship building and the ability to go deeper into technology than the bank channel sales officer, they become trusted advisors to the Bank Team.

How you'll contribute:

Build Internal and External Client Relationships:
  • Works leadership and partners to deliver results against revenue and growth targets.
  • Developing and expanding relationships with new clients to earn their trust, overcome objections, and create a sense of urgency.
  • Collaborate through the entire sales process, from discovery through contracting and implementation.
  • Presenting the PMX value statement and competitive differentiators.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to the client and partners.

Command of the role:
  • Operates as the lead point of contact for any matters specific to your customers throughout the sales cycle.
  • Maintains sales operational requirements including documentation in Salesforce and internal communications to senior management and other teams per best practices.
  • Forecasts and tracks key account metrics across entire pipeline.
  • Maintains professional and technical knowledge by reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.

Solution Design and Definition:
  • Creates and manages target call lists and executes on prospecting KPIs.
  • Utilize marketing tools and create value propositions to generate engagement of new business opportunities.
  • Within each client, understands unique client needs, decision makers, spectrum of influence, and can customize client-specific solutions.

System Demonstration:
  • Ability to take part and lead during demonstrations of PMX.
  • Identify data and workflow setups to be incorporated in demonstration to model client requirements.
  • Coordinate with product management and delivery teams to configure demo systems.

Process Improvement:
  • Continuously improve internal processes, particularly in the areas of sales support.
  • Bring prospect feedback - technical, product, customer experience - to PMX Direct Leadership.
  • Manage and keep all pipeline reports and Salesforce data with up-to-date opportunity status and call notes.

If you have the attributes, skills, and experience listed below, we want to hear from you!
  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent work experience.
  • 5+ years of Experience selling SaaS solutions to senior executives within large corporate finance such as the CFO, Treasurer, and Controller.
  • Possess a Strong Will to Win and Growth Mindset.
  • Highly effective sales, relationship building, and motivational skills.
  • Strong interpersonal and business development skills, as well as superior product knowledge of PMX.
  • Excellent follow-up skills and a sense of urgency in answering questions, resolving issues/questions, as well as coordinating internal cross-functional teams to appropriately respond to needs.
  • Ability to assess sales strategy strengths and gaps and make suggestions for process improvement.
  • Capability to manage multiple opportunities across various sales stages all advancing towards closure.
  • Highly organized and collaborative with a high ability to work effectively across functional groups.
  • Impeccable verbal, written and presentation communication skills using the MS Office suite (email, documents, presentations), with attention to detail.
  • Excellent critical thinking skills, ability to conduct needs assessment and discovery through high-value questions, listening skills, and collaboration with clients and prospects.
  • Ability to influence creative thinking beyond the boundaries of existing industry practices and client mindsets.
  • Prior experience managing a clean and current Salesforce pipeline.
  • Ability to travel up as role requires.


We welcome talent at all career stages and are dedicated to understanding and supporting additional needs.

About Bottomline Technologies

Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY) helps make complex business payments simple, smart, and secure. Corporations and banks rely on Bottomline for domestic and international payments, efficient cash management, automated workflows for payment processing and bill review, and state of the art fraud detection, behavioral analytics and regulatory compliance solutions. Thousands of corporations around the world benefit from Bottomline solutions. Headquartered in Portsmouth, NH, Bottomline delights customers through offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Learn more about Bottomline Technologies
Size
2,344 employees
Market Cap
$2.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$14.7 million
Founded
1989
5 Year Trend
+6.5%
Revenue
$450.7 million
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