Salesforce

Named Account Executive, Higher Education

Salesforce$176K — $235K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in full-cycle sales with 2 years in Enterprise Sales
  • Experience in SLED (State and Local Government, Education)
  • Proven track record in generating new business
  • Capability to collaborate with large, diverse teams
  • Background in high-growth, performance-driven environments
  • Evaluation of experience includes leadership roles and volunteer work

Responsibilities

  • Drive business growth and engage with existing customers
  • Build trusted relationships with team members and c-suite decision makers
  • Generate pipeline strategies to expand accounts
  • Ensure customer satisfaction through key relationship development
  • Develop long-term account strategies aligned with customer goals
  • Coordinate Salesforce resources to fulfill customer needs
  • Plan account strategy in collaboration with sales resources
  • Focus on outcomes rather than processes

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and resources for overall balance
  • Support for personal and professional growth
  • AI tools to enhance productivity and impact
  • Opportunities to redefine career potential
  • Collaborative environment aiming to deliver excellent customer experiences
Full Job Description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Sales

Job Details

Day to Day

Our Named Account Executives drive business and engage with existing customers. They build positive, trusted relationships with both key team members and c-suite decision makers within their patch, and become naturals at helping customers realize value from their Salesforce investments.

You will use your skills to develop opportunities, through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.

  • Persistent focus on pipe generation strategies and execution to seed, land and expand new and existing accounts

  • Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts

  • Develop and drive the overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned to customer business objectives

  • Coordinate internal Salesforce resources to meet customer business needs

  • Perform account planning at assigned accounts, coordinating with Prime and Cloud sales resources to ensure strategic alignment

  • Share Salesforce value proposition for existing and/or new customers

  • Drive growth within an existing assigned account

  • Demonstrated focus on outcome over process


Preferred Qualifications

  • 8 years of full cycle sales experience, at least 2 years in Enterprise Sales

  • Experience working in SLED

  • Demonstrates success and enthusiasm in hunting for new business

  • Experience working with a large extended team

  • Experience working in high-growth, performance focused environments

  • Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

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