Account Partner in London

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The Professional Services Account Partner (AP) is a consultative and strategic sales professional. The AP sells the full portfolio of Professional Service’s offerings to new and existing customers. Account Partners must be strategic problem solvers with strong commercial skills and have the ability to craft visions and services propositions that drive customer value through clearly defined outcomes. They will be expected to understand and lead our customers throughout their Customer360 lifecycle partnered with our colleagues in license sales and Customer Success.

The AP is committed to earning the right to be an advisor to the customer, with the primary goal of helping customers quickly generate significant value from their Salesforce investment. The primary measurement of success for this role will be annual sales bookings (aka closed business) and bid margin aligned with agreed goals, targets, and quotas.

Responsibilities

• Drive account planning including the formulation of a clearly defined roadmap or the precursor activities to define such a roadmap.
• Generate pipeline through self‑origination and collaborating across Salesforce with License Sales, Delivery and Customer Success to develop trusted Professional Services propositions for clients and prospects.
• Use industry expertise and business acumen to understand a customer’s motivation, business drivers/challenges, strategic goals and objectives, and desired business outcomes.
• Engage and present to customers, especially at C‑Level, using a consultative selling approach that positions Salesforce and yourself as a long‑term trusted advisor relationship.
• Create a compelling vision and clearly communicate our groundbreaking solutions with the goal of generating significant success and business value from an investment in the Salesforce Platform.
• Develop and lead a territory plan and a tailored account plan for each customer that aligns with their business goals, priorities, and timeframes.
• Forecast accurately and timely, build a pipeline, and progress opportunities to deliver Success Cloud YOY revenue growth.
• Develop mutually agreed and aligned close plans and drive the execution of these plans to realize closed bookings aligned (or in excess) of assigned sales goals/quotas.
• Be a recognized role model for collaboration, understanding, and overall business results.

Basic Requirements

• Have a professional sales background or blended consultative sales and project delivery background.
• Have experience working with a customer through a visioning process, assessing business value outcomes, and developing plans to support the realization of that value through a structured program.
• Present business value led pitches and effectively negotiate terms aligned with margin targets.
• Can exercise empowered judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results aligned with goals of the company and within associated guidance.
• Recognize the importance of timing to close deals and are able to balance driving the closing cycle while being responsive to the customer’s needs and fundamentally building trust in the relationship.

Preferred Requirements

• Extensive years of consultative sales experience with a proven record of consistently meeting (or exceeding) quota.
• Experience selling and/or delivering Professional Services in a context similar to Salesforce or a Global System Integrator type environment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain executive (including C‑level) relationships where you are recognized as a trusted advisor.
• Experience growing accounts with large and complex pursuits ($M+).
• Experience in the Comms, Telco, Media, High‑Tech, Travel & Tourism industry.
• Highly collaborative excels in a matrix organizational model (aligning with other business functions).
• Committed team player with strong interpersonal skills who share and support colleagues.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced sales environment.

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