About this role
Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes businesses should control all their data whenever and wherever they need it. Veeam provides data resilience through data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. Based in Seattle, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we move forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands. The future of data resilience is here - go fearlessly forward with us.
About the Role
The Senior Account Executive - Commercial Accounts is responsible for identifying, developing, and closing business to new and existing customers within their Territory. This is a highly collaborative role, working with Veeam internal teams (Sales Development, Sales Engineering, Marketing etc) as well as our Channel, Alliance and MSP Partners to ensure the successful execution of their sales plan for the assigned Territory.
What You’ll Do
- Develops sales activities with commercial segment new customers; upsells and cross sells to the existing commercial customers
- Develops sales pipeline by proactive calling to convert sales conversations to identified prospects
- Works with regional sales team to advance opportunities to closure, including Systems Engineers to technically qualify and deliver product demonstrations
- Closes business in conjunction with Veeam partners (in tier-two model)
- Meets individual and team revenue targets Leverages business generated by partners with end users/customers
- Drives account strategies and coordinates team selling efforts with Inside Sales Reps, Channel Partner Managers, Marketing, Sales Engineering and others to close business
- Effectively executes a territory plan to maximize revenue
- Enters forecasting and account/opportunity details in Veeam’s CRM (SalesForce)
- Engages with Veeam Strategic Alliance partners to drive mutually beneficial revenue opportunities
- Proposes, coordinates and participates to marketing activities within the territory Ability to travel 0 - 75% of the time within the assigned territory/region requirements
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s Degree required (a combination of education and experience will be considered).
- Experience with vendors associated with Virtualisation technology strongly desired.
- Experience in mid-market to enterprise software sales; direct and channel sales experience required with experience managing resellers at a tactical, transaction-based level.
- Proven track record of accomplished selling in the mid-market to IT infrastructure specialists; must have an in-depth understanding of technology trends and issues and their impact on enterprises.
- Proven ability to develop new sales with strong cold-calling and prospecting skills.
- Must have knowledge of solution selling and value-based selling techniques.
- Must be available to travel up to 50% within the assigned territory.
- Be a self-starter with the ability to learn quickly.
- Be a high-energy sales person who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where roles and responsibilities change quickly.
- Experience in some sectors and channel development will be valued
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Veeam®, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes every business should be able to bounce forward after a disruption with the confidence and control of all their data whenever and wherever they need it. Veeam calls this radical resilience, and we’re obsessed with creating innovative ways to help our customers achieve it.
With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud.
Veeam solutions are purpose-built for powering data resilience by providing data backup, data recovery, data freedom, data security, and data intelligence. With Veeam, IT and security leaders rest easy knowing that their apps and data are protected and always available across their cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments.
Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 67% of the Global 2000, that trust Veeam to keep their businesses running.
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What you'll do
- The Senior Account Executive is responsible for identifying, developing, and closing business with new and existing customers. This role involves collaborating with internal teams and partners to execute the sales plan effectively.
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