SMB Account Executive - South Africa - English or French Speaker
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life.
Our SMB 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 decision-makers within their patch, and become natural at helping customers realize value from their Salesforce investments.
You will use your new business development skills to develop opportunities, through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.
Responsibilities
* Lead a dedicated customer set in the ESMB space being responsible for the full sales cycle.
* Own the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics, with a strong emphasis on new business, while growing existing accounts.
* Use your solution selling expertise to respond efficiently to customer needs and identify business potential to create a strategic, long-term partnership with your customers.
* Strengthen client relationships through regular engagement and face-to-face meetings
* Prioritise and lead industry events and user groups to generate market interest.
* Work in partnership with our team of Business Developers, Pre-sales, and Marketers for all sales leads and sales opportunities.
Required Skills And Qualifications
* Demonstrated success of quota carrying, technology solution-based direct sales experience
* Territory & Account Planning Strategies: Create territory and account plans to achieve sales objectives by effectively identifying and qualifying prospects and opportunities.
* 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, Slack, 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.
Preferred Skills And Qualifications
* Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
* Sales Methodology education.
* Ability to develop cases and service requirements, while crafting and leading strategic alliances.
* Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
* Track record of consistently achieving or surpassing quota.
* Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).
* Fluent in English or French
Benefits & Perks
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Posting Statement
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.
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