Enterprise Account Executive

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Are you passionate about transforming businesses through cutting-edge technology? Anaplan, the global leader in Connected Planning SaaS, is seeking a dynamic and driven Enterprise Account Executive to join our India team in Mumbai. This is your chance to make a significant impact by helping enterprises unlock their potential with Anaplan’s revolutionary platform. As an Enterprise Account Executive you will formulate and implement a sales strategy within an assigned region, drive revenue growth by driving demand in the current customer base, and develop new customers in the enterprise space. You will work in partnership with the Anaplan ecosystem of pre-sales, inside sales, customer success and partner teams to drive exponential growth.

Key to this role is your ability to articulate value, inspire and sell the Connected Planning future in a Cloud Computing world. As a trusted advisor and coach, you are the person with the expertise in Enterprise, Business and Technology Architecture that can match customer needs to the capabilities of the Anaplan solution. You will articulate the business value of the solution through executive level time to value, return on investment and TCO presentations. In addition to the excellent sales skills the Enterprise Account Executive should possess exceptional customer management experience at the C-level. Working closely with the entire account team to drive the customer relationship and alignment at all levels in order to implement the overall account strategy is key to your success.

Responsibilities

• Discover, qualify, strategise, solution, negotiate & close.
• Develop & implement sales plans & cycles.
• Understand a company's business strategy and define an architecture and solution to support that strategy with the capabilities of the Anaplan solution.
• Generate business in new customers and within the installed base.
• Must be able to forecast sales activity and revenue achievement while creating satisfied customers that can be referenced in future sales cycles.
• Work within an account team matrix, leading decision makers & influencers towards identifying their Customer Company vision by evangelizing the capabilities of Anaplan solutions.

Required Skills

• 10-12 years of solution selling in SAAS/PAAS.
• Experience selling to large enterprise customers in India.
• Having experience selling to Large Indian conglomerates or manufacturing/retail/automotive within Supply Chain teams.
• Expertise in mobility and digital strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to sell large scale and complex systems to key accounts.
• Expertise and experience dealing with large, complicated, accounts at the most senior IT and business levels.
• Executive-level communication and interpersonal skills.

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