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Named Account Executive - Sports

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
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London, Greater London, England, GBR
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Own strategic enterprise accounts in the UKI sports industry, selling the Salesforce Customer 360 platform to existing customers and new prospects. Build relationships with stakeholders and C-suite leaders, develop account strategies, coordinate internal sales resources, conduct account planning, articulate Salesforce’s value proposition, and drive account growth. The role requires complex SaaS sales experience, strategic selling ability, strong communication, analytical skills, and approximately 10 years of full-cycle sales experience.
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Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

About the role:
This is a unique opportunity to join a highly successful team of very seasoned Enterprise Account Executives working with some of the largest companies in UKI Sports Industry. Salesforce is looking for very hardworking, high EQ and passionate individuals who can effectively articulate how & why our solutions can help transform Customers’ business and exceed their goals.

Salesforce aspires to deliver business transformation enabled by technology to its customers and therefore requires individuals able to develop deep insight into the business dynamics of large sophisticated enterprises and help shape customers' change agenda.

Your Day-to-Day

Our Enterprise Account Executives engage with existing customers and new leads to sell the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform. They build positive, trusted relationships with both key team members and c-suite decision makers within their patch, and become naturals at helping customers realize value from their Salesforce investments.
You will use your skills to develop opportunities, through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.

  • Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts

  • Develop and drive the overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned to customer business objectives

  • Coordinate internal Salesforce resources to meet customer business needs

  • Perform account planning at assigned accounts, coordinating with Prime and Cloud sales resources to ensure strategic alignment

  • Share Salesforce value proposition for existing and/or new customers

  • Drive growth within existing assigned accounts 

Preferred Qualifications

  • 10 years of full-cycle sales experience

  • Ability to strategize with a large extended team

  • Experience with working across several industries.

What we look for in you

  • Effective communicator & quick learner: Ability to articulate how & why our solutions can help transform Customers’ business and exceed their goals.

  • Successfully run complex SaaS sales deals: Ability to develop sophisticated deal structures and commercial proposals for large deals.

  • Strong analytical & problem-solving skills essential

  • Strong influencing capabilities; must be a self-starter, high-energy

  • Strong appetite to work in a strategic selling environment.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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We are a recognised Disability Confident member under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the interview scheme as part of the application process. If you would like to apply under the scheme, please click the link to the Accommodations Request Form above and scroll to the UK Disability Confident Scheme section within the form.

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