Enterprise Account Executive

Commvault
Illinois

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About Commvault

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks - keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company's unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data.

The Enterprise Account Executive is responsible for achieving quota by selling solutions into a defined account list that may include current Commvault customers and high-value prospects. The position is a field sales role where the AE will engage in face-to-face sales with customers and prospects either directly or through partners. The Account Executive plans, coordinates, leads and controls balanced sales growth, account penetration and customer experience on a long-term multi-quarter basis.

*Candidates must live in the Chicagoland area to be considered for the role.

What you'll do...**

  • Achieve quarterly and annual quotas by selling to new and established - large, complex prospects and customer.

  • Develop and implement Strategic account plans for target account expansion and new account acquisition including performance objectives, financial targets, and critical achievements for a one and three-year period.

  • Build sale campaigns into target accounts and closely coordinate company executive involvement with customer/prospect leadership.

  • Coordinate the involvement of company personnel, including support, service, and management resources, in order to meet account performance objectives and customers' expectations.

  • Lead a matrixed sales team; liaison with clients, Deal Desk, inside sales, partners, channels, sales engineers, professional services, finance and legal to drive a prospect to close

  • Establish and maintain a productive, professional relationship with key personnel in assigned customer/prospect accounts.

  • Construct and deliver tangible cases at the CXO level including financial (return on investment & tco), technical and strategic value propositions

  • Prepare and present sales proposals and presentations to new and existing clients

  • Identify and build strategic relationships with partners and alliances that have existing relationships with the assigned target accounts

  • Negotiate and close deals following the company's practices and processes

  • Ensure orders meet all legal and financial requirements

  • Maintain a high level of relevant industry, Commvault and competitive knowledge

  • Plan, attend and coordinate executive briefings

  • Leverage internal sales tools and processes to drive opportunities to a successful close.

Who you are...

  • Possess a Bachelor's degree and validated sales experience.

  • Demonstrable success in software sales at the enterprise level; selling six-and-seven figure deals and managing an integrated selling team

  • Deep understanding of the storage management or data management industry, products, competitors, history, emerging trends and changing marketplace

  • Minimum of two years success in identifying, building relationships and selling directly or with partners

  • Excellent communication skills, persuasive, listening skills

  • Background in IT infrastructure; SaaS Experience Preferred

Meet the Hiring Manager: Erin Duffy, Sales Director

You'll love working here because:

  • High income earning opportunities based on self performance

  • Opportunity for Presidents Club

  • New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

  • Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message

  • An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds

  • Generous global benefits

Ready to #makeyourmark at Commvault? Apply now!

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Thank you for your interest in Commvault. Reflected below is the minimum and maximum base salary range for this role. At Commvault we use broad salary ranges in our job postings to reflect the diverse levels of expertise and experience among our candidates and is not reflective of the total compensation and benefits package. The specific salary offered will be determined based on your unique qualifications, including your relevant experience, skills, and the value you bring to the role. While the range provides a general idea of the compensation, it is important to note that placements within the range are not automatic and will be carefully considered to ensure a fair and competitive offer. We are committed to rewarding talent and experience.

Pay Range

$93,500-$182,850 USD

Commvault is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are always committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status and we will not discriminate against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.

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