About Commvault
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Public Sector Account Executive is responsible for achieving quota by selling solutions into a defined Public Sector territory that includes current Commvault customers and prospects. The position is a field sales account, new business focused role where the AE will engage in face-to-face sales with customers and prospects either directly or through partners across UKI.
Do you have sales experience in the UKI Public Sector; account planning, new account acquisition and servicing existing clients while working with local resellers and alliance partners?
The AE must have the ability to articulate an in-depth understanding of the prospect’s environment, current challenges/goals and have the ability to align Commvault solutions to those challenges/goals including a financial and strategic value proposition. The candidate must have a history of success in selling sophisticated software platforms (vs. IT component or narrow focused tools) in the Public Sector to new logo accounts and have significant experience selling within the UKI partner ecosystem
What You'll Do
- Identify and qualify leads and generate new business opportunities in order to achieve revenue quota on a quarterly and annual basis.
- Maintain a high level of face-to-face meeting activity with customers, prospects and partners on a weekly basis - encouraging strategic working relationships
- Develop territory/account plans to leverage partners, alliances and existing relationships to build and maintain a robust pipeline of new logo opportunities.
- Lead and build strategic partner relationships, assisting in rolling out partner programs and partner sales and technical enablement to aid in pipeline generation
- Prepare and present sales proposals and presentations to new and existing clients with strategic and technical value propositions.
- Negotiate and close deals following the company’s practices and processes.
- Leverage internal sales tools and processes to drive opportunities to a successful close.
- Plan, attend and coordinate executive briefings
- Ensure an impressive level of Public Sector, Commvault and competitive knowledge
Who You Are
- Shown success in Software & SaaS sales within the Public Sector
- Experience within Data Protection/Security industry: products, competitors, history, emerging trends and changing marketplace
- Demonstrable experience in identifying, building relationships and selling with channel partners
- Excellent communication skills, persuasive, listening skills
- Background in IT infrastructure
- Experience of MEDDICC sales methodology or similar would be an advantage
- Operationally excellent with regards to operational hygiene including forecasting
- Be flexible with travel, with the ability to get into London and Reading when required
- Fluent English written and verbal language skills
Meet the Leader
John Lowe (Sales Director)
You’ll love working here because:
- High income earning opportunities based on self performance
- Opportunity for Presidents Club
- New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
- An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
- Generous global benefits
Commvault is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are always committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status and we will not discriminate against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.
Commvault’s goal is to make interviewing inclusive and accessible to all candidates and employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to participate in the interview process or apply for a position at Commvault, please email accommodations@commvault.com For any inquiries not related to an accommodation please reach out to wwrecruitingteam@commvault.com.
For our Candidates to prioritize your security:
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If you think you have been targeted in this recruiting scam, please reach out to us at wwrecruitingteam@commvault.com. You can also find more tips about job scams and how to avoid them on the FTC’s website.
