Senior Account Executive

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About the role

  • Federal government account executive selling OpenText application delivery management and DevOps solutions. Building pipeline, managing strategic accounts, and closing complex technology opportunities.

Responsibilities

  • Develop a long-term sales pipeline to increase the company's market share in specialized areas
  • Capture leads outside of specialization and use closed-loop lead management for assignment and follow-up
  • Seek new opportunities by expanding and enhancing existing opportunities
  • Set the direction for business development and solution replication with new and existing customers
  • Develop and own relationships with the Micro Focus client base and wider ecosystem
  • Establish professional, working, and consultative relationships with clients
  • Maintain competitor knowledge to strategically position products and services
  • Develop quota objectives and future direction for the defined product category
  • Exceed quota
  • Grow the external ecosystem by leveraging partner relationships to expand account reach
  • Drive Federal Government business in the United States
  • Prospect, qualify, negotiate, and close opportunities with new and existing accounts
  • Build pipeline through proactive campaigns
  • Collaborate with management, channel, and sales teams in shared accounts
  • Partner with Professional Services account teams to build account plans and strategies that drive incremental revenue
  • Cultivate customer relationships to ensure account retention and growth

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of sales experience selling technology solutions and value to US Government entities
  • University or bachelor’s degree; directly related previous work experience
  • Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota, diversity of business customers, and higher-level customer interface
  • Extensive selling experience within the industry and on similar products
  • Typically 8–12 years of advanced sales experience
  • 2–3 years of product sales in the desired specialty
  • Understanding of the industry and market segment of key accounts
  • Account planning and accurate revenue forecasting skills
  • Strong knowledge of application delivery lifecycle solutions and services, especially Micro Focus solutions
  • Knowledge of the software development landscape
  • Consultative solutions selling and business development skills
  • Prospecting, negotiating, and closing skills
  • Knowledge of government purchasing processes
  • Experience building and driving RFPs
  • Knowledge of the government reseller ecosystem
  • Knowledge of application delivery, DevOps, and environments
  • Project management skills
  • Ability to collaborate with management, channel, sales, and Professional Services teams
  • Ability to cultivate and maintain positive customer relationships
  • Comprehensive knowledge of products, services, and competitor offerings

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles
  • Vacation entitlement
  • Paid time off
  • Physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing benefits package
  • Personal growth opportunities
  • Reasonable accommodation during the application or recruiting process

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$136,000 - $200,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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