Summary
Salesforce is hiring a Digital Account Executive for its Marketing Cloud business, based in Dubai and focused on the Middle East. The role is responsible for generating new digital business revenue within enterprise accounts, developing partner relationships, demonstrating Marketing Cloud capabilities, and negotiating contracts and renewals. The successful candidate will create account plans, manage sales forecasts and pipelines, and build relationships with senior customer stakeholders. Requirements include at least eight years of software solutions sales experience, experience meeting sales targets, a degree or equivalent experience, and fluency in English; Arabic is an advantage.
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Job Description
Digital Account Executive - Middle East
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 placeWe are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, the World’s Most Innovative Company according to Forbes and one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. Our more human, culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team and celebrating success. We are the Salesforce Marketing Cloud.In today’s connected world, every customer interaction matter. Salesforce Digital helps our customers to make the most of every touch point, enabling them to own the 1:1 customer journey across all channels and make Real Time Marketing happen.We’re driven by a deep understanding of marketers’ needs—because we’re marketers too. No other digital marketing company invests in product innovation the way we do, giving our clients access to truly pioneering technology.
Primary Responsibilities
- Winning mainly net new Digital business revenue within Enterprise accounts according to the business plan
- Actively develop partnerships in the partner ecosystem to drive new business
- Ability to do an initial demonstration of the Marketing Cloud capabilities
- Position Marketing Cloud products and services and improve Customer’s impact
- Negotiate and create product and service orders, contract addendums and renewals
- Lead and develop existing contacts and create ambassadors
- Weekly accurate forecast to sales management
- Create business plan in collaboration with the extended team in order to drive net new revenue and ensure customer success
Position Requirements
- Understanding of a Sales environment with experience in meeting quarterly and/or annual targets
- Min 8+ years experience of Software Solution sales.
- Ability to negotiate commercial contracts and maintain competitive pricing
- Thorough knowledge of MS Office software including Project, Access, Visio, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Fluent in English, Arabic is a plus.
- Degree or equivalent experience required
Preferred Requirements:
- Exceptional presentation and communication skills with experience of engaging with ‘C’ level executives
- Ability and experience with critical thinking and complex decision making
- Consistent track record of exceeding sales quota preferably (digital marketing) SaaS solutions
- Ability to negotiate commercial contracts and maintain competitive pricing
- Confirmed commercial success in working with executives, VP and ‘C’ level
- Ability and confirmed experience with strategic thinking and complex decision making
Key Strengths & Competencies
- Sales Process / Methodology
- Workshop Setup and Execution
- Forecasting & Business Operational Skills
- Pipeline Generation & Territory Management
- Business Acumen and ROI-based POV
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