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Enterprise Account Executive, Education

Deerfield Beach, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Sept 2024

About the role

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Job Category

Sales

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

About Salesforce

Our Enterprise Education (EDU) team, specifically Higher Ed, focuses on working with our most strategic customers and institutions generating over $200m in revenue annually. You will have the opportunity to work in a fast paced team with various customers and receive personalized training and career opportunities.

You will be aligned to our Core team selling the entire Salesforce Platform specifically for:

Public Sector- Education-Higher Ed

Day to Day

Our Enterprise Account Executives engage with existing customers and new leads to sell the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform. They build positive, trusted relationships with both key team members and c-suite decision makers within their patch, and become naturals at helping customers realize value from their Salesforce investments. You will use your skills to develop opportunities, through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.

Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts
Develop and drive the overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned to customer business objectives
Coordinate internal Salesforce resources to meet customer business needs
Perform account planning at assigned accounts, coordinating with Prime and Cloud sales resources to ensure strategic alignment
Share Salesforce value proposition for existing and/or new customers
Drive growth within an existing assigned account

Preferred Qualifications

10 years of full cycle sales experience, at least 5 years in Enterprise Sales
Preferred Experience working in SLED-specifically Higher Ed
Management of multiple large key account
Ability to strategize with a large extended team
Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

Our investment in you

World class enablement and on-demand training - check out Trailhead.com for a sneak peek!

Sandler Sales Training
Week-long product bootcamp
Fast Ramp mentorship program
Weekly 1:1 coaching with your leadership
Clear path to promotion with accelerated leadership development programs

Working at Salesforce

Working at Salesforce isn’t all about selling. It’s also about learning, and we heavily invest in you with a month-long immersion and onboarding, including: a week-long product bootcamp, mentorship program, weekly coaching and development programs.

Benefits

We are pioneers of the Pledge 1% model, providing product, grants and community service to those in need. We are proud to be#1 in PEOPLE’s Top 50 Companies that Care, and are on Fortune’s Change the World list.

We provide every employee with 7 paid volunteer days off a year, and donation matching for all approved charitable donations. We provide other world-leading benefits to all our employees, including;