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Overview of the Role:

The South African Enterprise team sells the entire product portfolio into our most strategic customers. This position would be focussed on Enterprise customers in the Comms and Media space.

Salesforce is looking for a curious and energetic Enterprise Account Executive with in-depth knowledge of SaaS technology and value-based solution selling.
In this role you will be leading the Account Team at both existing and net-new Enterprise accounts, whereby you will be responsible for the upsell & cross selling of additional Salesforce products into line of business and C-Suite. 

Responsibilities

In this role, you will work closely with current customers as a trusted digital advisor to deeply understand their outstanding company challenges and goals.

You will collaborate with customers on the Salesforce Platform to evangelise solutions that will help them reach their business goals and blaze new trails within their organisations.
You will contribute to our business as a valued member of our Ohana.

Required Qualifications

Account Planning and Strategies: Establishes plans to achieve sales objectives by effectively identifying and qualifying opportunities to drive strategic growth across your portfolio.

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 using a variety of communication methods (writing, speech, presentation) and tools (whiteboarding, 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.

Key Functional Competencies

• Objection Handling

• Business Foundations

• Industry Foundations

• Value Discovery

• Point of View Development 

• Account Team Alignment 

• Executive Alignment

• Forecast Management

• Value Management and Business Case Development

• Pipeline Management 

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.

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

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At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at www.equality.com and explore our company benefits at www.salesforcebenefits.com.

Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.

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