Senior Account Executive

🕒 May 5

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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 functional teams 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. • Demonstrate Skillsoft solutions with confidence, connecting product capabilities to business outcomes and speaking the language of enterprise and C-level buyers. • Ability to operate with a sense of urgency, be bold, creative, curious and competitive, and demonstrate a positive, winning attitude. • Lead value-based negotiations across complex deals, clearly articulating ROI, total business impact, and time-to-value to advance and close opportunities. • Network and influence at the C-suite level, building deep relationships across complex organizations to uncover enterprise-wide challenges where Skillsoft’s solutions deliver differentiated value. • Operate with urgency and accountability, bringing creativity, curiosity, and competitive drive to building and closing a high-quality, multi-solution pipeline.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ 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. • A strong track record of exceeding quota though expansion, cross-sell, and upsell strategies. • Proven success navigating complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles, including selling across multiple functions, buying groups, and executive audiences. • Demonstrated 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. • Strong understanding of solution and value-based selling, including building business cases that align platform capabilities to strategic customer initiatives. • 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. • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite & Salesforce.com.

🏖️ Benefits

• Not specified