SaaS Sales Account Executive, ASEAN

The SaaS Sales Specialist is responsible for achieving quota by selling Commvault Cloud SaaS solutions into a defined territory that includes current Commvault customers and prospects. The position is an overlay field sales role where you are responsible for supporting Enterprise and Commercial Segment Account Executives face to face or virtually on sales meetings. This role will align to multiple Sales Leaders, supporting opportunities from their teams and leading specific stages during the sales process (e.g. demos, POCs, TCO discussions, etc.).

You must have the ability to articulate an in-depth discussion, starting from understanding the end user’s environment, current challenges/goals, and align Commvault SaaS solutions to those challenges/goals including a financial and strategic value proposition.

You must have a history of success in selling software platforms (SaaS preferred) and have experience selling within the local partner ecosystem.

What you will do:

• Qualify leads that cover a specific set of SaaS services and help field sellers in developing business opportunities in order to achieve revenue quota on a quarterly and annual basis.

• Maintain a high level of face-to-face and/or virtual meeting activity with customers, prospects, and partners in alignment with the guidance and priorities received from the Sales Leaders (AVPs and Sales Directors)

• Partner with Commvault field sellers and pre-sales engineers on specific SaaS opportunities and work jointly to closure.

• Be able to coach and share best practices with the broader sales and GTM organisation.

• Foster strategic working relationships with customers, maintaining a high level of contact.

• Prepare and present sales proposals and presentations to prospects and existing customers with quantifiable business cases and strategic and technical value propositions.

• Provide support in negotiating and closing deals following the company’s practices and processes.

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

• Plan, attend, and coordinate executive briefings.

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

• Be able to take responsibility of the specific SaaS goal for your territory, accurately forecast the business and hold to that commitment.

• Be the owner of your business in your territory, ensuring end-to-end management of the identified specific SaaS services (including sales activities, forecast, planning, reporting, QBRs, etc.)

Who you are:

• Minimum of 5+ years’ demonstrated success in software sales

• Understanding of the SaaS data management industry, products, competitors, history, emerging trends and changing marketplace.

• Minimum of two years’ success in identifying, building relationships and selling with channel partners.

• Excellent communication skills, persuasive, listening skills.

• Background in cloud, data centre infrastructure, or cyber security.

• Strong financial selling skills, specifically building and delivering TCO models.

• Working understanding of the public cloud offerings (AWS, Azure and GCP)

• Experience working with RTM (routes to market) partners hyperscalers, alliances and GSI.

• MEDDIC knowledge and participation in account planning activities

• Strong working relationship with legal to accelerate agreements required for closure.

• Experience selling solutions through public cloud marketplace

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