Strategic Enterprise Representative, UK

 As  Strategic Enterprise Representative for the UK, you will be selling our award winning NoSQL database to the Global 2000 directly. You will be part of an over-achieving sales team that has established Couchbase as a dominant player in the database world.

You’ll be driving strategic enterprise opportunities, selling the value of our product and services offering.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and be responsible for the execution of their Franchise Plan 
• Align with pre-sales solution engineering, channel partner strategies to meet individual goals. As well as liaising with SDR teams & sales follow-up of marketing qualified leads
• Create and deliver pipeline generation programs and activities in their territory that leverage buying and developer ecosystems, including events, digital, cloud partner, and our developer relations teams. 
• Oversee all aspects of the sales process in their territory, pipeline generation, deal qualification, relationship management, closing and contract execution, post sales customer satisfaction.
• Maintain and update sales reporting tools sets for forecasting, lead generation and deal management.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of the Couchbase platform and demonstrate effective communication of our use cases to their territory prospects and customers in both Cloud SaaS and on-premise environments. 
• Ability to lead their virtual team to execute their plans, document and communicate strategies to their management team and keep customer and forecasting systems up to date.
• Demonstrate ability and passion for customer satisfaction and new customer acquisition to grow their franchise and contribute to the growth of the UK Enterprise business in Couchbase.

 Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 10 years of experience selling enterprise technology in a fast-paced and extremely competitive market, with a proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales quotas.
• Ability to evidence experience in closing 1 million USD deals.
• Sales experience in database technology or its ecosystem is a strong advantage.
• Versatile in selling through partner ecosystems within each country in the UK region.
• Experience in cloud providers marketplace is an additional advantage.
• Previous experience in selling professional services.
• Completion of MEDDIC or equivalent sales methodology training.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills with the ability to effectively communicate the value of the Couchbase platform to both customers and prospects.
• Experience in SaaS sales or a solid understanding of hyperscalers and as-a-service offerings.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and work effectively within a team.
• Self-motivated, independent, and high-performing individual with a quick learning ability.
• Proficiency in English, and within a reasonable travel distance from London is preferred