Client Executive Commercial Accounts (m/f/d)

Job Summary

As a Client Executive in the Corporate segment, you will be responsible for leading sales activities across a set of Commercial ("Mittelstands") customers to achieve assigned revenue objectives. By promoting and cultivating a team-based selling approach, you will ensure that NetApp's hybrid cloud and Cloud Services sales motions are successfully executed across your named territory account list.

Working closely with NetApp's Partner and Distributor ecosystem, the Client Executive serves as a trusted advisor to customers, combining strong business acumen with technical understanding to deliver a differentiated value proposition and measurable customer value.

Key Outcomes and Activities

In addition to the expansion of existing accounts, the focus is on acquiring new customers

• Create and maintain Plans that define how you will Protect, Grow and Acquire business across your Territory.
• Disrupt the mindset of Customers and Partners by bringing innovative ideas that showcase the case for change and NetApp's distinctive value proposition
• Build and expand trust-based relationships with NetApp's strategic route to market partners - particularly Channel Partners, Global System Integrators and Distribution - to maximize co-selling opportunities and in turn deliver customer value and satisfaction
• Lead and coordinate the end-to-end sales cycle including Pipeline generation, qualification, solution design, pricing and quoting, deal/contract negotiation across NetApp's hybrid & cloud solutions.
• Develop and execute sales strategies to profitably grow revenues and expand the wallet share in your customer base.
• Responsible for sales forecasting accuracy, linearity and operational hygiene to achieve business management excellence
• Achieve assigned revenue goals

Job Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to surpass goals, seizing opportunities to push the envelope and define and win new opportunities to serve customers and achieve results
• An aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems
• A high degree of familiarity with the changing IT ecosystem including hybrid architectures, private cloud and migrations to public cloud
• Able to demonstrate success in developing and executing a comprehensive sales plan
• Communicates with clarity, simplicity, energy, and passion
• Personal commitment to success and the ability to motivate others to succeed with a history of delivered results
• Located within assigned territory and able to travel frequently to visit local customers and partners

Education and Experience

• Experience in a technical or business-focused environment
• Proven experience in a sales role, with responsibility for managing customer relationships en-to-end
• Proven track record of overachievement of quota and KPI's
• Previous experience in enterprise software, SaaS, or Cloud is preferred, but not essential

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