Remote Strategic Acquisition Account Executive

Summary

Join us at Anaplan as a Strategic Acquisition Account Executive and focus on acquiring the largest, most strategic accounts across Sweden and the Nordic Region. You will be selling business value and transformational potential from sophisticated technology solutions to stakeholders across Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, and HR.

Requirements

• 5+ years consultative sales experience into Fortune 2000 companies, ideally in SaaS solutions (but not required)
• Shown success selling into Vice President / Senior Vice President buyers
• Track record of overachieving sales quota & targets, including demonstrated history of 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
• 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 (e.g. sales process, qualification, executive presentation skills, quote presentation and negotiation)
• Ability to balance multiple (3-5) opportunities at once

Responsibilities

• Engaging with targeted prospects and clients 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 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

• Experience with Outreach, SFDC, LinkedIn Sales Navigator a plus
• Account Planning experience Altify, MEDDPICC, Miller Heiman