Sales Executive

Summary

Join Pythian, a leading IT consulting company, as a Sales Executive and drive growth within your assigned territory. You will develop and execute territory plans, manage a book of business, and build strong relationships with clients. Responsibilities include developing leads, managing contract negotiations, and attending industry events. The ideal candidate possesses 10+ years of experience selling professional IT services, a strong understanding of cloud technologies, and excellent communication skills. Pythian offers a remote work environment, a training allowance, a wellness budget, and generous paid time off.

Requirements

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of experience and education will also be considered
• 10+ years experience in selling professional or managed IT services in the cloud, application, analytics, data management and data infrastructure space
• Previous experience in a senior sales role with demonstrated ability to meet or exceed targets in the information technology or professional services sector with an emphasis on hunting for new business coupled with a desire to help clients solve difficult business problems with technology
• Experience in selling cloud technologies and services (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure) as well as a deep understanding of the growing purpose and role of various public cloud platforms. Cloud certifications are an asset
• Strong understanding of the vital role of data in the application and analytics space and the various underlying technologies both in the cloud and on prem
• Ability to manage influence through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus building

Responsibilities

• Developing and executing a territory plan as well as planning target account expansion strategies and tactics and maintaining a robust sales pipeline
• Developing leads, campaigns, and new go-to market strategies and uncovering opportunities within net new accounts in your assigned territory
• Accelerating customer adoption, developing long-term strategic relationships with key accounts, and working with Pythian’s partners
• Managing contract negotiations and leading other pre-sale activities, keeping thorough records of customer interactions, providing sales projections, and meticulous CRM (salesforce.com) updating
• Travelling as required to attend in-person meetings with prospects and clients, attending conferences, trade shows, and other industry events, as well as annual sales kickoff meetings

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally combined background of post-sale and sales experience
• Deep understanding of value drivers in recurring revenue business models
• Demonstrated desire for continuous learning and improvement
• Enthusiastic and creative leader with the ability to inspire others
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Proficient in the use of Salesforce, and its importance

Benefits

• Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office! All you need is a stable internet connection
• Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry!
• Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
• We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
• Pythian cares about the health and well-being of our team. You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more). Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity