Senior Account Executive, Public Sector (EU Institutions)

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Our EMEA Public Sector Sales Team is seeking talented, self-directed sales professionals to join our rapidly growing team. As the fastest growing line of business within Salesforce, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the future by accelerating the adoption of all Salesforce solutions within the public sector and more specifically EU Institutions, driving sales growth and building lasting relationships with government customers, agencies and public organisations.
Your Impact:
You will work closely with current customers and prospective customers as a trusted advisor to deeply understand their unique challenges and goals. You will consult with customers on the Salesforce Platform to evangelize solutions that will help them reach their business goals and blaze new trails within their organizations. You will contribute to our business growth in a fast-paced, collaborative and fun atmosphere, as a valued member of our Ohana.
Key Responsibilities:

• Manage complete and complex sales cycles presenting the value of our full suite of applications

• Develop and execute a strategy to acquire new customers and expand on existing customer relationships to grow account adoption and revenue

• Manage and forecast sales activity and opportunities using Salesforce's best-in-class CRM

• Multi-task, prioritize, and manage time efficiently

Required Qualifications:

• Account Planning and Strategies: Establishes plans to achieve sales objectives by effectively identifying and qualifying opportunities in within the Public sector space (EU Institutions).

• Research and Discovery: Uncovers a prospect’s current processes, business challenges, and strategic goals based on customer 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.

• 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.

• Fluency in English and ideally a second language (Flemish or French)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.

• Experience selling business applications to Public sector preferred.

• Sales Methodology Education.

• Ability to develop cases and service requirements, while crafting and leading strategic alliances.

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