Account Executive, Energy & Utilities

Job Description

Job Description

Vlocity’s Sales team engages with customers to paint a vision of a more agile future & help them understand how they can break free from their legacy systems with the Industry Cloud.

We are looking for highly talented and passionate individuals who can effectively drive understanding of why Vlocity Energy & Utilities Industry Cloud solutions are differentiated from and superior to other technology approaches. The future of software is cloud computing. Vlocity is looking for talented, hardworking individuals with great energy, leadership, and initiative to join our team.

The Account Executive will formulate and execute an Industry Cloud sales strategy within their region, drive revenue growth by driving demand in the current customer base and develop new customers in the enterprise space. Effective partnering with Salesforce AEs, Accenture, IBM, Cognizant and other partners is critical to the role. Key to this role is your ability to articulate value, inspire and sell the Industry Cloud future in a Cloud Computing world.

In addition to the excellent sales skills the Account Executive should possess deep Utilities industry knowledge in combination with exceptional customer management experience at the C-level. Working closely with the entire account team to drive the customer relationship and alignment at all levels in order to execute the overall account strategy is key to your success.

Responsibilities

• Refine sales messaging, prospecting, qualifying, and closing techniques
• Create new leads from prospecting efforts and assist others
• Manage complex sales cycles, utilizing internal and external resources as appropriate
• Identify and grow sales opportunities within assigned territory
• Be willing to travel as required
• Keep current with industry trends and engage customers addressing their business challenges
• Develop & execute Industry Cloud sales plans & cycles
• Understand your target account's business strategy and define an architecture and solution to support it with the capabilities of the Industry Cloud
• Work with product management to translate key functionality and benefits into core business value messages

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years software sales experience – ideally CRM or other business -ocused software application
• 5+ years of experience selling into the Retail Energy and/or Utilities verticals
• Proven ability in managing complex, enterprise sales cycles from start to finish with a consistent track record of successful revenue/quota attainment
• Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities, and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative, and team-oriented environment
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Highly self-motivated and able to work with little direct supervision
• Proven consultative sales solution skills, including the ability to articulate a clear, concise return on investment value statement
• Understanding of the impact of digital transformation
• Experience managing the sales cycle from business champion to C- level executives
• Extensive background in technology and platform solutions such as application development, database, business intelligence, integration, internet

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Salesforce products and platform features, capabilities, and best use
• Experience and knowledge of Vlocity competitive landscape and technical ecosystem
• Strong knowledge of business processes, applications and app development.
• Domain expertise in CRM and related applications

Seeking talent near or accessible to: San Francisco, CA | Chicago, IL

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Vlocity, a Salesforce Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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