Senior Account Executive - Digital Sales

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Senior Account Executive - Digital Sales

Job Summary

Sells Equinix solutions to new accounts and/or expands existing accounts. Focus on largest global accounts in region. Facilitate strategic account planning, leads negotiation process, and leads extended sales team on complex multi-region / multi-metro sales.

Responsibilities

Product Solution Expertise

• Be a digital product and services expert. Sharing your knowledge of industry best practices, our digital service product offerings, and their benefits to customers
• Support building digital expertise and new products growth across field sales. Partner with Sales Account Executives on digital customer fit, pitch, personas, uses cases, common pain points, potential competitors, and how to handle objections
• Actively maintain and grow your expertise in leading transformational technology concepts and methodologies

Build Customer Relationships

• Work as a business partner with account teams to develop digital pursuit strategies with customers and partners
• Build relationships with key stakeholders in assigned accounts, prospects, and partners
• Contribute to quarterly business reviews with customers to identify and develop new digital selling opportunities

Territory and Account Planning

• Drive digital prospecting and account growth within existing accounts or new logos with Sales Account Executive
• Partner with Account Executives to identify, qualify, prioritize, and execute digital services strategies for short and long-term pursuit to achieve assigned sales objective
• Analyze customer data and make recommendations on how to maximize the digital services solutions within assigned territory or account segmentation

Product Solution Selling

• Work with Account Executives to identify customers' business needs, challenges and technical requirements and matches to Equinix solutions
• Work closely with Solutions Architects to perform pre sales feasibility assessments to ensure that digital solutions meet the customer requirements
• Define value metrics within the prospects/customers and deliver value assessments
• Engage and influence key decision makers within client base
• Facilitate resources necessary to further sales cycle such as Solution Architects, Technical Account Managers, Product, Customer Success, Marketing etc
• Meet or exceed Monthly, Quarterly and Annual sales objectives and revenue quota, constantly working towards team, monthly & quarterly KPI metrics such as pipeline build, revenue attainment, digital bookings and opportunities development

Pipeline Management

• Prioritize list of accounts/prospects for short and long-term pursuit to achieve assigned sales objectives
• Provide timely and accurate information to management such as forecasting and opportunity status
• Work with Marketing, Channel and Business Development to support the creation and running of campaigns to generate additional pipeline

Negotiation

• Works with Sales Account Executive to drive quoting, negotiating, and closing of digital services sales
• Support the Account Executive with digital services contracts and serve as a liaison to the legal team

Qualifications

• Validated enterprise sales and business development experience preferably within the IT/software services, web/application/platform hosting, managed services, SAAS, Cloud computing, or ISP
• Develop and maintain a clear understanding of your prospects' business needs and how Equinix's solutions can enable current and future requirement
• Proficient communication and presentation skills (written & verbal)
• Strong technical aptitude to understand the challenges a prospect is facing and to translate those to business outcomes Equinix can deliver
• Ability to progress complex opportunities through a cross-functional sales cycle
• Self-starter, highly results-oriented and motivated to drive the highest possible level of responsiveness and performance; ability to spot potential wins and execute on them quickly and commercially
• Excellent relationship building skills - Ability to build meaningful business relationships with Equinix customers, prospects, and internal colleagues
• Proven track record of success driving adoption of disruptive technologies within enterprise accounts
• The ability to work effectively at all levels within a high-growth, fast-paced environment and get results
• Strong motivational colleague, with outstanding professional presence and eye for business
• Coachable, accountable, driven to learn
• Persistent, dependable and with integrity
• Able to adapt to a constantly changing and growing environment, and share ideas on how to innovate
• Sales force automation, enterprise resource planning or other IT infrastructure management (monitoring and discovery) technologies a definite plus
• Sales specialist/overlay experience a plus
• 5+ years of Cloud sales experience

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.