Enterprise Account Executive - Consumer

Summary

Join Anaplan as an Enterprise Account Executive in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) vertical and leverage your proven sales expertise to sell Anaplan's versatile platform to Fortune 500 companies. You will engage with prospects, identify business process inefficiencies, and position Anaplan's solutions. Conduct compelling presentations to C-suite executives, manage opportunities from start to finish, and apply Anaplan's value-based selling methodology. This role requires building Anaplan's footprint by acquiring new logo accounts and expanding within existing customer bases. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales Development Reps, Marketing, Solution Consultants, and Customer Success. This position reports to the Regional Vice President (RVP) and involves managing up to 50 accounts.

Requirements

• 5+ years of consultative sales experience in Fortune 2000 companies, ideally in SaaS solutions (but not required)
• Shown success selling into Vice President / Senior Vice President buyers
• History of overachieving sales quota & targets, including multiple high six-figure annual contract value (ACV) deals (services and/or software)
• Demonstrated network in your industry territory, with a mix of some customers and implementation partners
• Demonstrated experience with sophisticated partner & internal team organizations
• Domain understanding (Supply Chain, FP&A, Workforce Planning & Sales) and knowledge of how these functions plan, process work and make decisions
• Strong, demonstrated opportunity management practices (g. sales process, qualification, executive presentation skills, quote presentation, and negotiation), and ability to balance multiple (3-5) opportunities at once
• Demonstrated experience selling into Consumer (g. FMCG, F&B, Apparel, Retailer) accounts
• Demonstrated understanding of the pressing business challenges faced by consumer-facing enterprises today

Responsibilities

• Engaging with targeted consumer-focused organizations prospects to identify broken business processes and position Anaplan’s unique ability to solve the problem
• Build Anaplan’s business value throughout the selling engagement. Navigating sophisticated prospect environments to align the prospect around the Anaplan solution
• Conduct highly effective presentations from Director through SVP and key C-suite level decision makers including CFOs, CROs, and senior leaders in the supply chain, workforce, and other business functions
• Develop customers and own opportunity management start-to-finish across multiple customer targets and functions
• Apply Anaplan’s value-based selling methodology and tools to run sales processes and accurately forecast business
• Employ outstanding account leadership skills to identify account expansion opportunities by cross-selling and up-selling opportunities within targeted accounts
• Perform strategic sales planning, leading to accurate forecasting of the business
• Work with cross-functional members of Sales Development Reps, Marketing, Solution Consultants, and the Customer Success teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Business, Finance, Economics, related BS/BA degree or relevant years of experience
• Experience with SFDC, Altify, Marketo, and Engagio a plus
• Account Planning experience Altify, MEDDIC, Miller Heiman