Account Executive, Strategic - Asia (12 month FTC)

Smartsheet is seeking an experienced enterprise account executive to join our enterprise team, driving revenue from Asia's largest organisations. The ideal candidate will have a history of driving complex enterprise sales cycles, multi threading and senior stakeholder engagement. This is Smartsheet's most senior frontline sales role in the Asia region and a history of performing with large enterprise accounts is a must.

This position is a 12 month fixed term contract, based in Sydney and reports to the Director for Asia Sales. This role has a team go to market approach and has a designated enterprise sales rep driving account activity plus designated solution engineer and customer success manager assisting with account engagement and solution designs.

You Will:

• Strategically engage senior customer stakeholders with a current Smartsheet footprint and drive additional revenue through new solution upsells.
• Land and expand with new Logos for Smartsheet by selling our full suite of products and services
• Grow account footprint and revenue to an ultimate goal of a full enterprise wide contract agreement.
• Pipeline generation and end-to-end sales cycle management with companies above 5000 employee size using the MEDDICC sales framework.
• Utilise multithreading and consistent lead outreach, as appropriate, within both new logos and existing customers to drive business growth
• Conduct consultative and cross-functional discovery calls and act as a Consultant to the Customer to identify their needs and align customer challenges to impact-driven Smartsheet solutions
• Understand & respond to Customer requirements within the highly competitive sales market, including response to RFPs, defining collaboration goals, success criteria and program strategy to achieve results
• Act as a subject matter expert in the features, benefits and application of Smartsheet's products and solutions; educating the customer in how we partner with them to evaluate our software effectively
• Conduct product demonstrations and partner with cross functional teams, including Sales Engineers, Customer Success and internal Consulting, to support complex sales cycles.
• Qualify and prioritise strategic business (80%) while closing and upleveling transactional business (20%) to ensure a healthy pipeline
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in Salesforce leveraging MEDDICC qualification guidelines
• Develop detailed strategic account plans aimed at growing Smartsheet footprint across enterprise business units.
• Utilise channel partner network where appropriate to gain customer traction
• Pipeline manage and forecast to exceed quarterly quota's
  
  

You Have:

• Proven sales track record in complex enterprise SaaS environment
• Proven ability to prospect and manage a designated territory to maximise revenue growth
• Experience in strategic account relationship management
• Executive mindset & ability to interact well with senior level corporate management
• Understanding of Solution/Consultative Selling with ability to execute each stage in the sales cycle to advance the sale
• A value and ROI driven sales process focused on customer outcomes is crucial to align with the Smartsheet sales motion
• Promotes the importance of collaboration within and across our business to create, capture, share and maximise value. Interacts effectively with others; is considerate and approachable; values, respects, and welcomes differences and others' perspectives; is mindful of own authority and personal impact.
• Establishes clear goals and priorities; translates strategy into action plans; holds self accountable for performance goals; does what is needed to ensure they consistently deliver an excellent customer experience
• Passion for working with emerging technologies and an ability to understand new technical concepts
• Ability to continuously improve and adopt best practices while holding self accountable in a hybrid workplace