Account Executive - Enterprise Germany - Communications & Media

Account Executive - Enterprise Germany - Communications & Media

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Our Enterprise Account Executives engage with existing customers and new leads in Communications, Media or Telco sector to sell the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform. This role requires extensive experience in the telco or media or communications industry. They build positive, trusted relationships with both key team members and c‑suite decision makers within their patch, and become natural at helping customers realize value from their Salesforce investments.

You will use your skills to develop opportunities, through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.

Responsibilities

• Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts in Germany within the telco, media or communications industry.
• Develop and drive the overall long‑term strategy for the account, aligned with customer business objectives.
• Lead the end‑to‑end sales process through the engagement of appropriate resources such as Sales Engineers, Professional Services, Executives, Partners, etc.
• Territory identification and research to formalize a go‑to‑market strategy and create a qualified target account list within 30 days.
• Share Salesforce value proposition for existing and/or new customers.
• Drive growth within an existing assigned account.

Required Qualifications

• Account Planning and Strategies: Establishes plans to achieve sales objectives by effectively identifying and qualifying opportunities.
• Research and Discovery: Uncovers a prospect’s current processes, business challenges, and strategic goals based on customer use cases and value hypotheses.
• Solutioning: Identifies compelling value propositions that address customer needs by demonstrating an understanding of technology solutions.
• Communication: Fluency in German and English. Interacting with customers in a clear, concise, and timely manner using a variety of communication methods (writing, speech, presentation) and tools (whiteboarding, Google Slides, Zoom).
• Resource Application: Continuously runs toward results using the full capabilities of available resources and tools.
• Team Selling: Aligns with the full capacities of the account team and partners to support the deal and customer success.
• Experience: Will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g., extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Sales Methodology Education.
• Ability to develop cases and service requirements, while crafting and leading strategic alliances.

Benefits

We are pioneers of the Pledge 1% model, providing product, grants and community service to those in need. We are proud to be #1 in PEOPLE’s Top 50 Companies that Care, and are on Fortune’s Change the World list. We provide every employee with 7 paid volunteer days off a year, and donation matching for all approved charitable donations. We provide other world‑leading benefits to all our employees, including:

• Retirement saving plan
• Monthly wellness allowance
• Flexible time off & leave policies
• Parental benefits
• Perks and discounts

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