Strategic Account Executive DACH

Job Description

Department: Sales

External Job Title: Strategic Account Executive DACH

Location : Germany (Any location)

For the last 100 years, companies have operated primarily under a product-centric business model, where the goal was to make, ship, and sell more units. Today, there’s a demand to have products and services delivered on a continual, subscription basis; to upgrade and access new innovations and features constantly. This is the end of ownership and it changes everything. Our vision is “The World Subscribed” where one day every company will be a part of the Subscription Economy® (a phrase coined by our CEO, Tien Tzuo).

Zuora’s leading, cloud-based software solution automates all subscription order-to-revenue operations in real-time for any business. Companies in any industry can launch new businesses, shift products to subscription, implement new pay-as-you-go pricing and packaging models, gain new insights into subscriber behavior, and disrupt market segments to gain competitive advantage.

Our growth story is only just beginning and our Sales team is pivotal in sustaining our rapid growth across the globe. We are looking for a highly collaborative, outcome-oriented Strategic Account Executive with an entrepreneurial spirit to help us take on this huge market opportunity.

As a Strategic Account Executive, you’ll focus on large established, multi-billion dollar companies; helping them embrace digital transformation, to be disruptors and avoid being disrupted. You’ll enable the most established software, hardware, media, telecom and IOT companies sustain rapid growth and transform their entire business. This isn’t just any software sales role. This will be the most interesting sale you’ve ever made as you, a trusted business partner take a seat at the decision-making table and pioneer business transformation with our future customers’ C-Suite and board members. You will be the CEO aka “ZEO” of your territory and career – owning, driving the strategy and leading the sales cycle with a cross-functional team including our award-winning customer service team. Be challenged and supported as a salesperson to grow as you’ll be surrounded by some of the brightest and most visionary people both in and outside of Zuora.

Join us and make shift happen!

What you’ll do & achieve:

• Complete Zuora’s in depth onboarding and sales training to b ecome an expert in Zuora’s messaging, products and services and unique sales approach
• Manage the complete and complex sales-cycles often presenting to C-level executives the value of Zuora’s full suite of applications
• Develop your own territory plan and a pipeline that will fuel the ongoing growth of your business enabling you to e xceed your quarterly and annual sales quota
• Identify and qualify new opportunities leveraging your own creativity, inbound lead flow, personal prospecting efforts, contacts, existing accounts and partners
• Evangelise the Zuora vision and complete value proposition through customer meetings, product demonstrations, in-market events and account specific initiatives
• Work cross functionally with our sales development, marketing, product and customer service teams to deliver outstanding results
• Negotiate pricing and contractual terms as required to close the sale
• Accurately forecast profitable and predictable territory performance and required resources through adherence of our sales proces

What you’ll need to be successful:

• 10+ years of solution sales experience managing complex sales-cycles with demonstrated ownership of territory and account management, preferably within SaaS, accounting/ERP applications, CRM, business intelligence or other business software solutions
• Experience in managing and scaling large complex DACH accounts.
• Ability to align technology solutions to complex, multi-stakeholder business problems and utilise strategic thinking skills to solve customer problems
• Track record of consistent over-achievement of quotas, revenue goals and the ability to effectively identify and sell to C-level executives
• Passion for building long lasting customer relationships and working cross-functionally within a diverse team to deliver outstanding results
• Technologically adept and business acumen focused with outstanding communication both written and oral, negotiation and presentation skills
• Strong business value selling skills and other proven sales methodologies.
• Ability to work individually and on a collaborative team in a fast paced and continuously evolving environment
• German speaker to native/professional level
• Ability to travel when required