Account Executive - Strategic Engagement Group

The challenge  

From the moment you wake up in the morning until you go to bed at night consider the media you consume, the adverts you see, the apps you use, the websites you browse and almost all of the shopping you do online throughout the day. Chances are that every single one of those interactions, every single one of those experiences, was touched by an Adobe product.  

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Enterprise Sales Executive to join our Digital Experience Cloud sales team based in London. This includes strategic selling and collaboration and orchestration with the respective Consulting and Pre-sales specialists supporting the team to develop new value propositions, build awareness and reveal new sales opportunities. You will also need to effectively team with our partner eco-systems, especially the Global System Integrators.  

What you’ll do  

• Drive a targeted motion across focus accounts with a primary focus on install base but also a select high potential Enterprise Greenfield accounts. You will be responsible for developing and closing business across a set of target accounts within the UK&I by selling our suite of Adobe Experience Cloud products. 

• Collaborate & partner with Solution Account Executives that cover 30-50 accounts, who would operate as a specialist on multi-solution opportunities, to create strategic engagements with customer executives to construct large transformational deals based on Adobe platform and portfolio sales plays.  

• Develop a comprehensive sales plan to reach and exceed sales quota both on an annual and quarterly basis. Engaging across the deal lifecycle from account planning to deal progression to deal close, with responsibilities in terms of orchestrating the wider ecosystem [Partners & Marketing] 

• Predominant focus on proactive account penetration with rest of time acting as reactive support for large deals across the Solution Led segment (UK & SSA) 

• Lead the engagement with your clients, support a clear value framework, run communications across C-level executives, and facilitate communications and relationships across their business and ours  

• Generation of revenue through driving and developing sales strategies  

• Follow the sales processes/procedures including creating and maintaining a monthly/quarterly sales forecast and excellent SFDC hygiene 

• Develop and work with the Partner eco-system and be comfortable with an indirect/partner sales motion 

• Build strong relationships with the wider ecosystem including pre-sales to drive exceptional customer experiences 

What you need to succeed  

• An excellent sales track record selling Enterprise Software, ideally; Digital Marketing or SaaS, including Content Management, Analytics, Personalisation and CDP.  

• Experience achieving sales quotas over 7 figures annually and comfortable with leading $1m+ deals 

• Skilled Solution Seller with a shown ability to build proposals.  

• Ability to operate at C-Level within our customers (CIOs, CMO's & CTO's) 

• Strategic understanding of Multichannel and Digital Marketing 

• Solution selling capabilities 

• Familiar with sales methodologies such as MEDDIC or Value Selling 

• Exceptional organizational, presentation, and interpersonal skills 

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