Strategic Account Executive, Utilities | Install Base - IFS Copperleaf

IFS

$150K — $160K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong interpersonal skills with a knack for building relationships
  • Customer-centric mindset focused on delivering successful outcomes
  • Proven problem-solving and strategic thinking abilities
  • Experience selling enterprise software at the C-level
  • Expertise in navigating complex organizations and sales processes
  • Ability to articulate personalized value propositions for clients
  • Dynamic presentation skills and consultative selling experience
  • Willingness to travel up to 50% for client engagement and networking
  • Experience in asset-intensive industries like Utilities or Transportation is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Build and nurture relationships within assigned accounts
  • Understand account challenges and identify Copperleaf's business solutions
  • Co-create solution roadmaps with clients to guide engagement
  • Lead procurement and sales processes to close business deals
  • Coordinate a deal team to define solutions and execute sales processes
  • Advocate for customer needs within the organization
  • Monitor competitors and position Copperleaf strategically
  • Maintain a pipeline of opportunities in a CRM system

Benefits

  • Flexible paid time off including holidays and sick leave
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401K plan with company contributions
  • Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Tuition assistance for professional development
  • Opportunities for community involvement and volunteering
Full Job Description
Job Description

As one of Copperleaf's Account Managers you will be assigned customer accounts and drive the identification and qualification of opportunities while executing account strategy and generating license, support and services revenues. This role is focused on working with established Copperleaf and IFS clients.

Your role will include the following activities:
  • Work with your assigned accounts to build a network of relationships across multiple functional areas and levels of the organization
  • Deeply understand each account's challenges and opportunities in the portfolio planning and asset management spaces. Identify how Copperleaf can make a difference to the account's business and to the personal success of our champions
  • Co-create a solution roadmap with accounts where it makes sense for us to engage
  • Drive the procurement and commercial processes to successfully close business.
  • Lead a Copperleaf "deal team" to support both solution definition and sales process execution
  • Champion the needs of your customer and your deal internally within Copperleaf
  • Continuously gather knowledge of competitors and how to effectively position our solution
  • Drive a sales process that will highlight our solution as a strategic advantage to the prospect
  • Routinely discuss and communicate opportunity plan sales strategy with other members of the account team, as well as field and corporate management
  • Maintain an accurate and documented pipeline of opportunities (prospects and suspects) within CRM


Qualifications
  • You naturally connect with people and make friends wherever you go
  • You are focused on creating great outcomes for your customers and love to see their success
  • You love challenges and are driven to win
  • You have strong skills in problem solving and strategic thinking
  • You have experience and are comfortable selling enterprise software to C level executives
  • You know how to navigate complex organizations and have experience with complex software sales, solution selling and value based selling
  • You can position new business within the account by developing, communicating and driving effective selling strategies that are based on a customer-specific value proposition
  • You enjoy leading a cross-functional team to drive results
  • You have dynamic presentation skills, the ability to articulate customer problems and challenges, and then link them to the value proposition
  • You have general familiarity with consultative selling methodologies
  • You enjoy travelling and are willing to spend 50% of your time visiting clients or attending industry events in the region (during COVID, travel expectations will vary based on target account locations and relevant Copperleaf guidelines, account guidelines, and local/federal regulations)
  • Experience in asset intensive industries such as Utilities, Oil & Gas, Mining, Public Sector or Transportation is desirable

What We're Offering
  • Salary Range: $150,000 to $160,000 plus 100% variable
  • OTE Range: $300,000 to $320,000, uncapped with accelerators
  • Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
  • Medical, dental, & vision insurance
  • 401K with Company contribution
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Tuition assistance
  • Community involvement and volunteering events


Additional Information

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.

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