What You'll Do: Our
Key Account Sales Executive is a collaborative, strategic, and critical thought leader who generates best-in-class credibility and contributes to First Advantage's industry leadership position. In this role, you'll drive transactions that create action and urgency within a client organization. This individual uses critical, innovative thinking to build sound business cases and influence others to close deals and expand the business
This role is
remote position; individual must be authorized and working from the United States.
Responsibilities:- Own and grow a defined portfolio of strategic technology accounts, driving expansion across multi-solution offerings and positioning our value within complex, high-growth tech environments.
- Driving a discipline sales process which includes prospecting, identifying and build relationships with internal & external stakeholders, build and deliver a compelling message that links our solutions value proposition to customer needs, and effectively manage closing timeline which leads to a natural ending and winning the business.
- Drive total growth and profitability for an assigned vertical, including accountability to meet and exceed quotas, profit goals, and other financial targets and performance metrics.
- Ensure that the company's vision, brand, and strategy are communicated, inter-connected, understood, and embraced by potential clients.
- Drive customer communications, service, and retention by establishing and growing relationships with top customers and serving as a credible company representative.
- Lead the discovery process by asking probing questions, preempting resistance, and communicating a compelling business case.
- Build the sales pipeline, create momentum, and anticipate industry opportunities and needs through a proactive, prescribed process.
- You will implement value-selling processes alongside a wealth of knowledge of FADV's products and portfolio
What You'll Need to be Successful:- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of consultative sales experience in a best-in-class, progressive human capital, BPO, or technology-based industry
- Record of negotiation and closing of new client sales, including the development of contracts, pricing, terms, conditions, and SLAs
- Proven track record in developing leads, pipeline, relationships, and presentation opportunities through a targeted and proactive strategy
- Verified ability to attain quota on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
- Demonstrated experience gaining access to and creating credibility within the VP-suite of targeted clients
Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:- Capable of building exclusivity, urgency, priority, and enthusiasm within prospective customers organizations
- Ability to accurately project, track, and deliver sales activities for multiple products and services monthly using a CRM system, such as Salesforce.
- Ability to lead the discovery process, preempt/overcome objections, and champion/communicate the benefits of a highly differentiated and value-added brand/partnership in a compelling manner
- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word)
- Ability to build relationships, communicate effectively throughout an organization, influence, negotiate, and establish mutually agreeable expectations
- Achievement and goal-oriented; conscientiously work to meet and exceed organizational goals
- Strategic mindset; self-directed, organized, analytical, and possesses excellent problem resolution skills
- Diligent, resourceful, versatile, and able to multi-task
- Thrive and excel in a fast-moving, sophisticated, and demanding environment
- Strong teamwork and collaboration with an outgoing personality
Preferred: - Entrepreneurial style with a proven ability to thrive in a dynamic, changing environment where a critical key to success is the ability to optimize and leverage limited resources
Additional benefits offered to our eligible people include:
- Ability to work remotely with occasional business travel.
- Medical, Vision, Dental, and supplementary benefit plans
- 401k with an employer match, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Competitive and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) and 9 paid company holidays
- Access to tech and growth opportunities, and leaders who want you to succeed!
The salary range for this position is approximately $125-150K base annually plus commissions. This range reflects our good faith estimate to pay fairly as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.
