Salesforce

Named Account Executive, Higher Education (Texas)

In short

Named Account Executive role at Salesforce focused on the Enterprise Higher Education sector, managing existing strategic customer accounts in Texas. The job involves pipeline generation, account planning, and building relationships with key stakeholders and c-suite decision makers at institutions generating over $200m in annual revenue. Requires 8+ years of full cycle sales experience with at least 5 years in Enterprise Sales, and Higher Education experience is preferred. Remote position based in Texas.

About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
Our Enterprise EDU team focuses on working with our most strategic customers and institutions generating over $200m in revenue annually. You will have the opportunity to work in a fast paced team with various customers and receive personalized training and career opportunities.
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 5 years in Enterprise Sales
•Experience working in Higher Education
•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.)
Unleash Your Potential
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