Growth Account Executive

🕒 May 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💼 Account Executive

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Skillsoft

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1998

📚 Education

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Education • Enterprise • SaaS

Skillsoft is a company that provides enterprise learning solutions designed to rapidly develop employee skills and close skill gaps. The company offers various customized learning programs, including leadership and business skills, technology skills, compliance and ethics, and AI skills. Skillsoft's learning platforms, such as Codecademy for Enterprise and Skillsoft Percipio, enable organizations to transform their workforces through mentorship, coaching, and instructor-led training. With a focus on integrating learning options into organizational frameworks and supporting workforce development with assessments and reports, Skillsoft aims to prepare teams for the evolving demands of the digital era. More than 12,000 organizations trust Skillsoft for their employee learning and development needs.

📋 Description

• Responsible for partnering with Sales Leaders and positioning all Skillsoft solutions to corporate decision makers to meet and exceed revenue goals and representing a solution line(s) with key competitive differentiators. • Collaborate with sales leaders on strategic plans and objectives to drive desired business growth within current Strategic Accounts, collaborating with related sales, marketing, and support resources in the successful advancement of critical opportunities and market penetration. • Engage wider account teams on short/long-term strategy with a focus on maintaining and growing revenue within existing customers. • Owning the business relationship to drive the wider account team to deliver measurable and defined business objectives and goals with timelines related to revenue and growth of whitespace. • Ensure that the company's total resource is delivered and leveraged in a way that satisfies customer requirements and supports the objectives of the account strategy. • Skilled at demonstrating software and speaking the language of corporate buyers, able to collaborate and leverage subject matter expertise in a matrixed sales environment. • Ability to operate with a sense of urgency, be bold, creative, curious and competitive, and demonstrate a positive, winning attitude. • Negotiate effectively based on value and time to close, understand complex client requirements and be able to clearly articulate the company's offerings to develop solutions to meet those requirements. • Ability to network at C-level, building a network of different contacts to articulate value and identify challenges across complex, strategic organizations where Skillsoft has a solution.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional direct sales experience, selling SaaS, PaaS, B2B, and/or enterprise software to VP, SVP, and C-Level Executives with outstanding quota attainment history. • Experience exceeding sales targets with a keen understanding of the steps involved in a sales cycle and ability to leverage each stage to advance the sale. • Ability to understand complex client requirements and to clearly articulate the company’s offerings to develop solutions to meet those requirements, as well as, negotiate effectively based on value and time to close. • Proficient in MS Office Suite & Salesforce.com. • Ability to prospect with a structured activity model to maximize revenue growth, as well as, collaborate and leverage subject matter expertise in a matrixed sales environment. • Skilled at demonstrating solutions and speaking the language of corporate buyers and respectfully challenge their thinking. • Ability to collaborate and leverage subject matter expertise in a matrixed sales environment. • Experience operating with a sense of urgency, have a competitive spirit, demonstrate a positive, winning attitude & adaptive, agile mindset.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • dental • vision • paid time off