Title:  Client Executive Public Sector

Job Summary

As a Client Executive (CE), you will be responsible for leading the sales activity in a set of Enterprise accounts to achieve assigned sales quota. You will lead the collaboration and coordination of all sales and pre-sales roles associated with the account to develop and grow the NetApp business in the account. The ECE serves as a trusted advisor to the customer’s senior leadership and uses business acumen and technical expertise to maximize revenue from the account

Activities & Responsibilities

• Create relationship maps within accounts and plans to expand depth and quality of relationships with buyers and influencers
• Develop account plans and work with assigned Account Technology Specialists to develop a long-term product strategy for new and existing NetApp product lines
• Lead and coordinate the end-to-end sales cycle including pipeline generation, qualification, solution design, pricing and quoting, deal/contract negotiation.
• Act as a sales orchestrator, pulling in the right experts, at the right place and right time.
• Oversee multiple concurrent sales motions (some owned by specialist sellers or even other sales roles) to ensure a customer-centric approach, while not inhibiting other sellers or specialists from hunting for opportunities
• Lead partner co-selling efforts in the account.
• Respond to Public tenders from its customers if necessary, with the support of our partners

Job Requirements

• Ability to build strong relationships with customers and partners
• Deep understanding of the customers goals and ability to demonstrate value to clients
• Highly organized and disciplined with the ability to coordinate and lead multiple concurrent selling efforts by NetApp sales specialists and partners
• Ability to speak credibly on a variety of modern computing, storage and cloud technologies/concepts
• Hunter mentality with passion and proven success for prospecting and new logo acquisition/growth skills along with account management experience
• Develop, manage, and grow a pipeline of sales opportunities and team of resources within an assigned territory to expand sales revenues
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, presentation skills, customer service, and negotiation skills
• History of field technology sales with a focus on new logo acquisition, business development, and enterprise account planning
• Consistent track record of exceeding quota and driving referenceable business
• Passion for hunting in whitespace to break into new areas and identify new opportunities in existing enterprise accounts
• A Plus - working knowledge of the storage and cloud infrastructure landscape
• Strong understanding of the channel sales landscape in a distributed environment
• Broad exposure to a variety of storage and cloud technologies/concepts
• Self-starter who is comfortable working independently and in a team environment with high integrity
• Good knowledge of the public sector would be appreciated.

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