BlackLine

Strategic Account Manager

BlackLine$153K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of enterprise cloud software sales experience with large accounts
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Economics, IT, Finance, or MBA preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to generate leads and close sales effectively
  • Strong knowledge of ERP, CRM, HCM solutions and selling to CFOs
  • Familiarity with account planning and relationship mapping techniques
  • Ability to communicate complex solutions to high-level executives
  • Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time

Responsibilities

  • Generate leads and identify strategic sales opportunities
  • Develop and manage relationships with key stakeholders
  • Own the entire sales process from prospecting to closing
  • Coordinate responses to RFIs/RFPs/RFQs
  • Present proposals professionally to prospects
  • Collaborate with internal teams to drive sales success
  • Provide regular updates and forecasts to sales management

Benefits

  • Short-term and long-term incentive programs
  • Robust offering of benefit and wellness plans
  • Workplace model that promotes both virtual and in-person interactions
  • Collaborative company culture
  • Opportunity to influence sales strategy and processes
Full Job Description
Make Your Mark:
BlackLine is seeking an energetic, self-starting, entrepreneurial Strategic Sales Executive. The BlackLine Strategic Sales Executive will be responsible for generating BlackLine's most strategic accounts. Through a strategic approach, this individual will establish sales priorities, action plans and deliver/exceed on sales goals. This person will be assigned accounts to target and market BlackLine's solutions in order to secure new subscription business in our Software-as-a-Service(SAAS) business model. They will develop high value relationships with key stakeholders and will be responsible for negotiating and managing large contracts. They will work on bringing in new large strategic accounts (i.e. Fortune 5 and Large Privately-held organizations, too).

You'll Get To:
  • Utilize networking and prospecting skills to generate leads and identify strategic solution-based sales opportunities.
  • Develop and manage high-value relationships with key stakeholders.
  • Have a deep understanding of the way businesses operate, and the priorities that drive decisions from the C-level
  • Provide leadership and guidance to other team members on enterprise accounts and participate in providing input on sales and marketing collateral.
  • Own entire sales process from prospecting to closing business.
  • Coordinate and lead responses to RFIs/RFPs/RFQs.
  • Present BlackLine's proposals in a professional manner to prospects.
  • Provide feedback to management and Marketing teams on prospects reactions and questions about BlackLine's solutions.
  • Collaborate with other BlackLine teams including pre-sales, product, value engineering, operations, finance, marketing, and legal.
  • Travel to cultivate relationships with customers, partners, and related associations.
  • Ensures opportunities are accurately reflected and maintained in Salesforce, providing weekly updates, monthly projections and quarterly committed forecasts of sales activity and volume to BlackLine NA Sales management team.
  • Achieve annual sales targets and average monthly revenue quotas on a consistent basis
  • Collaborating with and leveraging Marketing & Business Development to maximize revenue production


What You'll Bring:
  • 10+ years of experience selling complex enterprise cloud software, working with large high-profile accounts
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Economics, IT, Finance or MBA preferred
  • Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Exhibits a hunter mentality and possesses outstanding ability to close sales.
  • Proven record and strong capability to generate leads, pursue opportunities and sell.
  • Experience selling business applications to business users - ERP, CRM, HCM solution knowledge
  • Strong background or experience selling to the CFO buying center is a big plus.
  • Experience with comprehensive account planning, relationship mapping, and business strategy mapping following sales methodologies like Target Account Selling or similar
  • Possesses strong sensibility for technology.
  • Ability to solve customer-related problems in a positive manner
  • Strong in consultative and insight-based selling.
  • Experience articulating complex solutions to decision makers and executives.
  • Proven ability to grow revenue and manage accounts
  • Knowledge of Cloud SaaS industry
  • Experience analyzing data trends
  • Strong time management skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities, and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative, and team-oriented environment
  • Adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professionalism
  • Willingness to travel up to 50 percent of the time.


We're Even More Excited If You Have:
  • Knowledge of cloud SaaS industry, accounting background a bonus
  • Proven, award-winning, closer of the largest companies globally
  • Independent personality, detail-oriented, clear communicator, and knows and meets deadlines inside of BlackLine as well as with/for our clientele


Salary Range:
$153,000.00-$180,000.00

Pay Transparency Statement:

Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location.

In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.

We are committed to pay transparency and ensuring candidates have clear information about compensation expectations. For roles that include variable incentive components such as an Incentive Compensation Plan (ICP) or On-Target Earnings (OTE), the compensation structure may follow a split model - for example, a 50/50, 70/30, or 60/40 ratio between base salary and variable incentive.

BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week.

About BlackLine

BlackLine, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. The company’s platform is designed to help midsize companies and large enterprises improve the accuracy and efficiency of their financial reporting. BlackLine’s software is used by accounting and finance teams to manage tasks such as journal entry preparation, account reconciliations, and intercompany accounting. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California.
Learn more about BlackLine
Size
1,812 employees
Market Cap
$3.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$46.9 million
Founded
2001
5 Year Trend
+27.2%
Revenue
$351.7 million
NASDAQ

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