Named Account Executive - Media

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
In-Office
Entry level
Cloud • Software
If you’re ready to build your future — and the future of technology — then you’re in the right place.
The Role
Manage strategic media accounts by building executive relationships, developing account and territory plans, uncovering business needs, and leading end-to-end Salesforce solution sales. The role focuses on retaining and expanding existing accounts through upselling and cross-selling, coordinating internal teams and partners, presenting Salesforce’s value proposition, and consistently achieving quota.
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Job Category

Sales

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

The Experience
Our Enterprise 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 natural at helping customers realise value from their Salesforce investments.
You will use your skills to develop opportunities, through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.
Working within our UK team, this role requires extensive Media experience.
What You'll Actually Be Doing

  • Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts
  • Develop and drive the overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned with customer business objectives
  • Lead the end-to-end sales process through the engagement of appropriate resources such as Sales Engineers, Professional Services, Executives, Partners, etc.
  • Territory identification and research, to formalise a go-to-market territory strategy and create a qualified go to market plan within 30 days.
  • Share Salesforce evolving value proposition with a large strategic customer
  • Drive growth within an existing assigned account


You're Our Person If...

  • Demonstrated Success of quota carrying, technology solution-based direct sales experience.
  • Account Planning Strategies: Create account plans to retain and grow ACV (Actual Contract Value) with existing accounts with a focus on upsell, and cross-sell.
  • Research and Discovery: Uncover customers' current processes, business objectives, and strategic goals based on customer discovery, use cases, and value hypotheses.
  • Solutioning: Identifies compelling value propositions that address customer needs by demonstrating an understanding of technology solutions.
  • Customer Communication: Interacting with customers in a clear, concise, and timely manner using a variety of communication methods (writing, speech, presentation) and tools (whiteboarding, Slack, Google Slides, Zoom).
  • Resource Application: Continuously runs toward results using the full capabilities of available resources and tools.
  • Team Selling: Aligns with the full capacities of the account team and partners to support the deal and customer success.


Even Better If...

  • Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
  • Sales Methodology education.
  • Ability to develop cases and service requirements, while crafting and leading strategic alliances.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Track record of consistently achieving or surpassing quota.
  • Ability to work with multiple internal teams, govern, inspire, and leverage resources to align with account objectives.
  • Experience will be evaluated based on alignment with the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership ro

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

Accommodations

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We are a recognised Disability Confident member under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the interview scheme as part of the application process. If you would like to apply under the scheme, please click the link to the Accommodations Request Form above and scroll to the UK Disability Confident Scheme section within the form.

Posting Statement

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.

Skills Required

  • Successful quota-carrying technology solution-based direct sales experience
  • Experience creating account plans to retain and grow contract value through upselling and cross-selling
  • Ability to conduct customer research and discovery to uncover processes, objectives, and strategic goals
  • Ability to identify and demonstrate compelling technology solution value propositions
  • Clear, concise, and timely customer communication skills across written, verbal, and presentation formats
  • Ability to coordinate internal resources, account teams, and partners to support sales and customer success
  • Extensive media industry experience
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Sales methodology education
  • Ability to develop business cases and service requirements and lead strategic alliances
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Consistent track record of achieving or surpassing quota
  • Ability to govern, inspire, and leverage multiple internal teams to align with account objectives

Salesforce Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Salesforce and has not been reviewed or approved by Salesforce.

  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as robust, with strong medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support. Offerings include multiple plan options and confidential counseling through Lyra for employees and eligible dependents.
  • Parental & Family Support — Family benefits stand out, with substantial paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers. Additional resources include fertility assistance, adoption and surrogacy support, and subsidized backup care.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs are broad, featuring flexible or unlimited PTO for many salaried roles. Paid volunteer days and early PTO accrual for hourly employees further enhance overall time-away flexibility.

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What We Do

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where Humans with agents drive customer success together. Through Agentforce, our groundbreaking suite of customizable agents and tools, Salesforce brings autonomous AI agents, unified data from any source, and best-in-class Customer 360 apps together on one integrated platform to help companies connect with customers in a whole new way. Salesforce is democratizing AI agents for businesses of every size and industry so every company can embrace a workforce without limits. Our low code, open, and secure platform helps companies build and customize Salesforce fast so they can safely scale AI-powered work to every customer and employee experience and transform their business. Salesforce is proud to be the market leader, but we’re even more proud to lead in philanthropy, innovation and culture. Guided by core values of trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability, Salesforce is more than a business — we’re a platform for change.

Why Work With Us

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