Strategic Sales Executive

Job title: Strategic Sales Executive

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced, highly motivated sales professional to manage a sales region and drive revenue by selling SailPoint's Identity Management solutions to end users and channel partners. The role involves understanding our clients' business and IT initiatives, identifying needs, and developing compelling business value proposals to close deals. The Sales Executive will build trusted relationships with senior decision makers and other key buyers within named accounts and partners.

What You'll Do

• Exceed revenue quota goals on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
• Demonstrate the ability to address each customer's and partner's inquiry, while providing them with the proper information and appropriate solution based on the customer's specific needs and interests.
• Develop business plans, which align to the assigned geographic and business needs.
• Engage and work with business partners where appropriate.
• Collaborate with Marketing to develop and execute marketing plans through/with end users and partners.
• Follow-up on all leads supplied and ensure internal systems are updated.
• Marshal and lead the appropriate technical resources to demonstrate SailPoint's advantages to the customer.
• Follow-up with clients and work with Sailpoint post-sale account managers to ensure consistent and ongoing coverage of account including new sales opportunities.
• Understand and work in all aspects of the sales cycle, including qualifying, presentations, demonstrations, RFP responses, negotiations and the closing process.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the territory including the customers, the prospects, the partners, the influencer's, and the competitors.
• Understand and communicate all product and technological strategies employed by competitive and complimentary organizations in the SailPoint market space.
• Maintain the highest level of customer and partner satisfaction within the accounts in your territory.
• Maintain a positive, professional total customer service attitude and demonstrate the company's Core Values.
• Coordinate, plan, and schedule sales support functions with Technical Sales staff.
• Demonstrate the ability to create and manage conversations at all business and technical levels of a client's organization from their CEO to a Systems Administrator.
• Utilize all channel management and reporting tools.

What We're Looking For

• 7 years of Business to Business sales experience, with 3 years in the Identity Management or Security Industries
• Proven results in a quota-oriented sales environment and an understanding of technology and technological innovations
• Proven negotiation skills and the ability to persuade and influence decision makers and executives is required. Effective at presenting to executive management, i.e. C-Level
• Professionalism, personal integrity, a high internal commitment to achieve success, the ability to build and maintain a vast network of professional relationships over a long period of time, strong oral and written communication skills
• Bachelor's degree or global equivalent in an IT, business or sales related field (education preferred but not required)
• Travel: Business travel of approximately 50 percent yearly is expected for this position.