Account Partner Director

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Business Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Account Partner (AP) Director is a strategic sales leader responsible for selling the full portfolio of Salesforce Professional Services offerings to designated accounts. This role requires a consultative selling approach, building trusted advisor relationships with C-level clients, and exceeding CSG Professional Services bookings. Responsibilities include developing territory and account plans aligned with customer business goals, forecasting accurately, building pipeline, and driving YOY revenue growth. The AP Director will collaborate with License Sales and Alliances/Partner organizations. Success is measured by YOY growth in overall services bookings and revenue. The ideal candidate possesses 10+ years of consultative sales experience, 5+ years selling professional services, and a proven ability to grow large, complex accounts.
Must have:
  • 10+ years consultative sales experience
  • 5+ years selling/delivering professional services
  • C-level relationship building
  • Exceed sales quotas consistently
  • Develop and manage account plans
  • Accurate forecasting and pipeline building
Perks:
  • Wellbeing reimbursement
  • Generous parental leave
  • Adoption assistance
  • Fertility benefits

Job Details

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Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Account Partner Director

Location: Germany, office flex based

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

The CSG Account Partner (AP) Director is a passionate and strategic sales leader. This person will sell the full portfolio of Professional Services offerings to designated accounts. The AP must be a strategic problem solver with enterprise, commercial, and cross-functional skills, demonstrate high energy, and have strong sales management experience. The AP will earn the right to be a trusted advisor to the customer, with the primary goal of helping customers generate significant business value from their Salesforce investment. This individual will be encouraged to understand and handle our customers throughout their lifecycle, driving adoption through sales activity for new and existing customers; this will include pipeline generation and delivering sales presentations to C-level clients. The primary measurement of success for this role will be YOY growth in overall services bookings and revenue.

Responsibilities:

  • Exceed CSG Professional Services bookings in defined sales territory
  • Use industry expertise and business sense to understand a customer’s motivation, business drivers, strategic goals and objectives, and desired business outcomes
  • Engage customers, especially C-Level, using a consultative selling approach that positions Salesforce and yourself as a long-term trusted advisor relationship
  • Build a compelling vision and clearly communicate our transformative solutions with the goal of generating significant success and business value from a customer’s investment in the Salesforce Platform
  • Develop and handle a territory plan and a personalized account plan for each customer, which aligns with their business goals. Forecast accurately and timely, build a pipeline and progress opportunities to deliver Success Cloud YOY revenue growth
  • Form a positive relationship with the License Sales organization and regional Alliances/Partner organizations that are instrumental to success
  • Be a recognized role model for collaboration, leadership and overall business results

As an Account Partner Director,

  • you are internally and externally recognized as business contributor, industry or product specialist.
  • have high level of knowledge of emerging business / industry trends and product direction.
  • settle the best customer success approach based on general direction from senior management.
  • work on complex business issue and initiatives that require business or industry knowledge.
  • act as an advisor on complex issues and initiatives, exercising discretion and latitude in reaching their goals. Leads cross functional teams and mentors others.

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

  • 10+ years of consultative sales experience with consistently exceeding quota
  • Of which, 5+ years experience selling and/or delivering professional services for a strategic consulting firm or large scale system integrator
  • Develop and maintain C-level relationships where you are recognized as a trusted advisor
  • Experience growing accounts with large and complex pursuits ($M+)
  • Highly collaborative and excels in a complex, matrixed environment
  • Great teammate with strong interpersonal skills
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

Benefits & Perks:

Check out our benefits site (https://salesforcebenefits.com/international.html) that explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

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We warmly invite applications from individuals with a severe disability status (Schwerbehinderung). Salesforce is committed to equality and creating a workplace that reflects society. We set ambitious goals for representation, emphasize accessibility and inclusion, and continuously learn and improve. Learn more about our inclusion initiatives here (https://www.salesforce.com/company/accessibility/workplace-resources/#ally-sf-benefits). In 2019, Salesforce joined The Valuable 500 to champion disability inclusion in business leadership.

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