Account Executive - Floral Park, United States - IBM

Description

Introduction
Apptio solutions from IBM help organizations make smart decisions as they analyze, plan, optimize, control, and collaborate on investments that will transform the IT operating model. Our fast-paced team prides ourselves on teamwork to grow our customer base and help customers achieve success.

As a Digital Sales Specialist, you will proactively hunt for and develop new business relationships and acquire new Apptio clients, generate revenue, and help customers achieve their goals. You will need experience in outbound prospecting, navigating a sales cycle, consultative selling skills, and the ability to drive results in a complex and dynamic environment. You will be expected to provide product demonstrations, and work with technical counterparts to successful orchestrate and win Proof of Values (POVs) with prospective clients.

We will help grow your selling skills to SaaS Commercial accounts as well as communication and building internal relationships with a diverse range of personnel including senior sales executives, product management, field marketing, and sales engineering teams.

Your Role and Responsibilities
What we want you to do:

• Help our team drive revenue to meet or exceed quarterly revenue targets.
• Leverage our best-in-class sales tools, including prospecting automation and intent data.
• Master the discovery phase, leverage proven sales methodology, and drive interest into product demonstration.
• Understand customer needs, influence their Cloud roadmap, and build mutual value at each stage of the client's cloud journey.
• Efficiently tie sales steps together, continuously try to shorten the sales cycle while anchoring on customer value.
• Retain your newly acquired customers by expanding their use of our products.
• Manage all activities and keep updates in Salesforce.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Software sales experience
• Strong outbound prospecting skills
• Technology-related full lifecycle new business sales experience
• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills
• Experience using a CRM software system, preferably Salesforce, and modern prospecting tools, preferably SalesLoft
• Experience working with and selling alongside partners
• Experience selling in a fast-paced dynamic selling environment

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• SaaS and/or Analytics experience preferred
• Experience working in and with a selling system (Sandler, MEDDIC, Force Management)
• Background in public cloud infrastructure and pricing
• Proven C-level selling and negotiation experience
• Experience selling to Agile and DevOps teams.
• Formal solutions selling training

About Business Unit IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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