Account Executive

**Job Category **:Sales

**Job Details**:
The Public Sector Team are seeking Account Executives responsible for managing a number of smaller size opportunities across State, Local and Federal Government; based in Melbourne.

Our Enterprise Corporate Sales (ECS) team partners with our most seasoned sales executives and this role will suit those who are looking to take their enterprise sales skills to the next level. With a sales model that fosters collaboration and supports your success, this is a great opportunity to forge and extend a successful sales career.

At Salesforce, our business culture is built around trust and has the customer’s interests at the core of everything we do. We’ll set you up for success by providing a comprehensive induction and on boarding to the business, operating in a hybrid work environment to succeed in today’s work from anywhere world. On top of your own business development we provide a range of support functions to help create and drive opportunities from internal sales support functions to highly skilled solution engineers to help you play an important role in driving digital transformation in the Public Sector team.

**Responsibilities**:

- To exceed monthly / quarterly sales targets by selling Salesforce solutions into Public Sector accounts.
- You will manage the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics, with a strong emphasis on new business sales, while expanding existing accounts.
- Territory / Vertical identification and research, to formalise a go to market strategy and create qualified target accounts.
- Pipeline development through prospecting across multiple approaches backed by your Public Sector domain knowledge.
- Create and maintain a sales pipeline to ensure over-achievement within your territory.
- Engage with prospect organisations to position Salesforce solutions through strategic value based selling, business case definition, ROI analysis, references and analyst data.
- Manage the end to end sales process through engagement of appropriate resources such as Solution Engineers, Professional Services, Executives, Partners etc.
- Generate short term results whilst maintaining a long term perspective to deliver fantastic customer outcomes and maximise overall revenue generation.
- Daily update of the Salesforce system with accurate customer and pipeline data.
- Accurate monthly forecasting and revenue delivery.

**Required Skills**:

- Relevant experience of selling enterprise software solutions gained within a major software vendor.
- Successful history of net direct new business sales, with the ability to prove consistent delivery against new business targets.
- Demonstrable track record of sales achievement over quota targets.
- Credibility at all levels, including CxO.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Public Sector experience would be viewed favourably.
- Strong tenure with previous employers.

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