Sales Specialist, Data Analytics

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software or cloud space.
• Experience selling data analytics or data management technologies to clients.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience carrying and exceeding strategic business goals in a sales role.
• Experience supporting executive relationships, and developing new territories/accounts, while ensuring customer success, adoption and expansion.
• Experience working with internal/external teams, including account teams, technical leads, procurement, and legal, to inventory existing software estate, build cases for transformation with implementation plans, and close agreements.
• Experience prioritising and planning business activity and transformation strategies within complex business cycles aligned to data and analytics.
• Knowledge of trends, products, and solutions in Cloud and Data and Analytics (BigQuery, Looker, Dataproc, Pub/Sub), including experience with data analytics technology stack.

About The Job:

As a Data Analytics Sales Specialist, you will help us grow our Data Analytics business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing customers. In this role, you will work with customers to deliver true business value, demonstrate product functionality and provide a comprehensive overview of key business use cases. You will lead day-to-day relationships with cross-functional team members, serving as a solution lead within the business organization. You will lead go-to-market strategies and business plays, manage campaigns, and provide feedback to Product and Global Solutions teams to inform our product solutions roadmap. You will shape customers' cloud and Data Analytics strategy and enable digital transformation. You will lead with empathy, while identifying innovative ways to multiply your impact and the impact of the team as a whole to drive overall value for Google Cloud.

Responsibilities:

• Build relationships with customers as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, managing complex business cycles, identifying solution use cases, and influencing long-term strategic direction of accounts.
• Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed strategic business and growth goals while forecasting and reporting your territory’s business.
• Work with Google accounts and cross-functional teams (e.g., Customer Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Channels) to develop go-to-market strategies, drive pipeline and business growth, close agreements, understand the customer, and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.
• Develop Analytics solution roadmaps with customers, understanding their unique and complex requirements on a business and technical level.
• Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understanding each customer’s technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, competitors, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.

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