Named Account Executive, Higher Education

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Sales

Job Details

About Salesforce

We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you've come to the right place.

Named Account Executive, Higher Education

About Salesforce

We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you've come to the right place.

Our Higher Education team focuses on working with nonprofit customers and organizations of all sizes. You will have the opportunity to work with a fast-paced team and with customers needing various levels of support and product education. Our team receives personalized training and career opportunities.

Day to Day

Our Named Account Executives engage with existing customers and new leads to sell the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform. 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. You will be expected to:

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Five years of full cycle sales experience, ability to navigate extended and complex sales processes

• Some experience in higher education sales

• Management of one large key account

• Ability to coordinate and strategize with a large extended team

• Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. performance, executive presence, teamwork and partnerships)

Working at Salesforce

Working at Salesforce isn't all about selling. It's also about learning, and we heavily invest in you with a month-long immersion and onboarding, including: a week-long product bootcamp, mentorship program, weekly coaching and development programs.

Benefits

We are pioneers of the Pledge 1% model, providing product, grants and community service to those in need. We are proud to be #1 in PEOPLE's Top 50 Companies that Care, and are on Fortune's Change the World list.

In addition to PTO, Salesforce provides every employee with 7 paid volunteer days off a year, and donation matching for all approved charitable donations.

We provide other world-leading benefits to all our employees, including;

• Health, life insurance, retirement saving plan

• Monthly wellness allowance

• Flexible time off & leave policies

• Parental benefits

• Perks and discounts

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