At Skillsoft, we believe skills fuel growth. Our mission is to empower every organization and every learner to turn constant change into continuous growth. As part of the team, your skills will help organizations understand what skills they have, what they need next, and how to apply them in ways that drive real performance and progress.
Sr Account Executive, Acquisition
The Sr Account Executive, Acquisition will prospect for new opportunities, applying a hunter mentality with a strategic, solution-selling approach. This requires needs-based, relationship sales to a diverse spectrum of industries. This individual will have a track record of over-quota achievement and will grow an ambitious pipeline of business as a result of outbound prospecting, creativity, and simple hard work. This will require the ability to navigate through complex organizations and sell to multiple decision-makers, including the “C Suite”.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive top-line revenue growth through new customer acquisition across the Benelux region.
- Sell Skillsoft Content, Platform and Services solutions directly to corporate decision makers.
- Partner with Specialist reps on cross-sell opportunities for new customers.
- Partner with Growth reps on upsell opportunities in a land-and-expand sales motion.
- Win by representing a solution line with key competitive differentiators.
- Influence prospects at the senior leadership level.
- Hunter by nature and working style. Selling is based on math….X number of outreaches, Y conversations, Z meetings to build 4-5X coverage in pipeline.
- Partner with related sales, marketing, and support resources in the successful advancement of critical opportunities and market penetration.
- Develop a thorough understanding of Skillsoft sales plays.
- Meeting prep with research, agendas agreed on by prospect and a tailored presentation coupled with impeccable follow-up.
- Outline measurable and defined business objectives and goals with timelines, (related to revenue and growth of whitespace).
- Provide management, feedback and recommendations on pipeline health, risk, opportunity, and progress.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 8+ years of direct sales experience, selling SaaS, B2B, enterprise software to VP, SVP, and C-Level Executives with outstanding quota attainment history.
- Experience in the learning, human capital, human capital technology space is preferred.
- Ability to exceed sales targets, a keen understanding of the steps involved in a sales cycle and ability to leverage each stage to advance the sale.
- Advanced understanding of customer’s business, loves to debate, pushes the customer, has a broad view/perspective.
- Ability to prospect with a structured activity model to maximize revenue growth.
- Skilled at demonstrating solutions and speaking the language of corporate buyers and respectfully challenge their thinking.
- Ability to collaborate and leverage subject matter expertise in a matrixed sales environment.
- Ability to operate with a sense of urgency, be aggressive, competitive, and demonstrate a positive, winning attitude.
- Negotiate effectively based on value and time to close.
- Ability to understand complex client requirements and to clearly articulate the company’s offerings to develop solutions to meet those requirements.
- Expert knowledge/usage of Salesforce.com
- Disciplined, process-oriented approach to customer acquisition.
Other
- Dutch speaking desired, but not essential
- Willingness to travel as required.
Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in AI-native skills management for the human + AI era. By unifying learning, real-time skills intelligence, and workforce insights, Skillsoft helps enterprises build their Skillforce™ — humans and AI working together to drive measurable business outcomes. Through personalized, interactive learning across leadership, technology, and compliance, Skillsoft enables organizations to close critical skill gaps and accelerate transformation. Skillsoft is trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 1000, and supports a global community of more than 105 million learners. Learn more at skillsoft.com.
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Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in corporate digital learning, focused on transforming today’s workforce for tomorrow’s economy. The Company provides enterprise learning solutions designed to prepare organizations for the future of work, overcome critical skill gaps, drive demonstrable behavior change, and unlock the potential in their people. Skillsoft offers a comprehensive suite of premium, original, and authorized partner content, including one of the broadest and deepest libraries of leadership & business skills, technology & developer, and compliance curricula. With access to a broad spectrum of learning options (including video, audio, books, bootcamps, live events, and practice labs), organizations can meaningfully increase learner engagement and retention. Skillsoft’s offerings are delivered through Percipio, its award-winning, AI-driven, immersive learning platform purpose built to make learning easier, more accessible, and more effective. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com. Skillsoft provides a comprehensive selection of cloud-based corporate learning content, including courses, videos, books, and other resources on Leadership Development, Business Skills, Digital Transformation, Technology & Developer, and Compliance. Percipio’s intuitive design engages modern learners and its consumer-led experience assists in accelerating learning.
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