19 Oct
Anaplan
London
Job description
Anaplan. As the engine behind back-office system connectivity, you might not recognize our name, but our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50.
Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, and Bayer are just a few of the 2,000+ companies that rely on our best-in-class platform and its native AI capabilities to see, plan, and lead their businesses.
By dynamically connecting financial, strategic, and operational plans in real-time, companies trust Anaplan to give them the power to anticipate change, address complexity, deliver operational insights, increase profits, and stay ahead of their competition.
What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our commitment to our customers’ success and our collective motivation to achieve ambitious goals.
We champion diversity of thought and ideas, and we behave like leaders irrespective of title. When you work for us, you’ll be part of a winning culture that’s dedicated to creating opportunities for our customers, partners, and employees.
We hope you’ll join us. Let’s create something incredible together!
Anaplan is hiring an ENTERPRISE ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE - UK Enterprise Net New - Retail, Hospitality, Travel, Entertainment industries.
In this role, you will take your proven track record of selling sophisticated technology solutions and account management and sell an incredibly versatile platform.
Our sales team is helping industry leaders understand the impact of Anaplan products and how our connected planning solution is ending siloed decision-making.
You will help our customers achieve their immediate business goals while setting their business up for the future.
This role will be a catalyst to Anaplan’s continued growth while leading digital transformation.
Reporting directly to the RVP of Sales.
You will have a mixed portfolio of about 100 customers and prospects, mostly greenfield accounts with existing Anaplan customers.
This type of territory requires someone to further build our footprint by hunting and locking in new logo accounts as well as rapidly growing opportunities within the current customer base.
Your Impact
- Engaging with targeted prospects and clients to identify broken business processes and position Anaplan’s unique ability to solve the problem,
- Build Anaplan’s business value throughout the selling engagement. Navigating sophisticated prospect environments to align the prospect around the Anaplan solution,
- Conduct highly effective presentations from Director through SVP and key C-suite level decision makers including CFOs, CROs, and senior leaders in supply chain, workforce, and other business functions,
- Develop customers and own opportunity management start-to-finish across multiple customer targets and functions,
- Apply Anaplan’s value-based selling methodology and tools to run sales processes and accurately forecast business,
- Employ outstanding account leadership skills to identify account expansion opportunities by cross-selling and up-selling opportunities within targeted accounts,
- Perform strategic sales planning, leading to accurate forecasting of the business,
- Work with cross-functional members of Sales Development Reps, Marketing, Solution Consultants, and the Customer Success teams.
Your Qualifications
- 5+ years consultative sales experience into Fortune 2000 companies, ideally in SaaS solutions (but not required),
- Shown success selling into Vice President / Senior Vice President buyers,
- Track record of overachieving sales quota & targets, including demonstrated history of multiple high six-figure annual contract value (ACV) deals (services and / or software),
- Demonstrated network in your industry territory, with a mix of some customers and implementation partners,
- Demonstrated experience with sophisticated partner & internal team organizations,
- Domain understanding (Supply Chain, FP&A;, Workforce Planning & Sales) and knowledge of how these functions plan, process work and make decisions,
- Strong, demonstrated opportunity management practices (e.g. sales process, qualification, executive presentation skills,
quote presentation and negotiation), and ability to balance multiple (3-5) opportunities at once,
- Business, Finance, Economics, related BS / BA degree or relevant years of experience.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Outreach, SFDC, LinkedIn Sales Navigator a plus,
- Account Planning experience Altify, MEDDPICC, Miller Heiman.
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