Account Executive, Corporate

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📍Remote - Ireland

Summary

Join Sprout Social's Sales team as a Corporate Account Executive based in Ireland. Drive new business by converting large prospective clients into customers. Collaborate with colleagues across various teams. Minimum qualifications include 3+ years of B2B sales closing experience, a track record of exceeding metrics, and proven success in pipeline generation. Preferred qualifications include SaaS experience, social media/marketing automation experience, and exceptional communication skills. Growth opportunities include comprehensive training, mentorship, and opportunities to exceed monthly metrics and become a Sprout Social expert. Sprout offers a comprehensive benefits program including insurance, flexible paid time off, parental leave, wellness initiatives, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of closing experience in B2B sales
  • Track record of overachieving against defined metrics
  • Proven success generating pipeline and partnering with Sales Development counterparts

Responsibilities

  • Drive new business in our corporate segment by converting our largest prospective corporate clients into customers
  • Collaborate with colleagues across our sales support team, Solution Engineers, Legal and more
  • Complete Sprout Social’s new hire training & onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members. You’ll gain a broader understanding of our products and how your role fits into the organization
  • Partner with the Manager of Corporate Sales to define key success metrics for your role and how you will be measured against them
  • Acclimate yourself with the day to day responsibilities of the Corporate Account Executive team by shadowing team members and listening to recorded customer calls and demos
  • Learn Sprout’s go-to-market messaging, key differentiators, develop and personalize segment-specific value propositions
  • Learn Sprout’s existing customer sales process by shadowing your peers and working closely with our Sales Enablement Specialists
  • Complete a demo and written certification to ensure comprehension
  • Become fully ramped in your role as a Corporate Executive
  • Manage a strong pipeline of qualified leads and begin the process of self generating pipeline with key accounts and strategic stakeholders
  • Meet and exceed monthly activity, pipeline and new business metrics
  • Conduct active research leveraging all available tools and data sources to understand your customers’ brand, culture, KPIs, partners, and success metrics so you can add value throughout your interactions and become a trusted advisor
  • Own your numbers - consistently meet and exceed your activity goals to build a fruitful pipeline that will provide consistent quota attainment
  • Become a Sprout Social and social media expert to confidently speak to ever-changing trends, new product features and platform enhancements to help our customers realize their full potential and accomplish their goals
  • Consistently meeting and exceeding monthly activity, pipeline and new business metrics
  • Stepping up as a leader to share best practices across the organization and help others grow from your experiences
  • Obtaining and acting upon (solicited and unsolicited) peer and customer feedback

Preferred Qualifications

  • SaaS experience preferred
  • Social media and/or marketing automation experience a plus
  • Exceptional organizational, presentation, and communication skills - phone, email and demonstrations/webinars
  • Experience working with Salesforce.com or other CRM platform

Benefits

  • Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
  • Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
  • High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
  • Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
  • Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program, employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and mentorship programs for aspiring leaders
  • Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
  • Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Dublin’s city centre
  • Whenever possible, we want to provide team members the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. If you prefer an office setting, this role may be based in our Dublin location. If you prefer to work remotely from another location within Ireland, we will accommodate you as best as possible

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