Government Solutions Account Executive - Tallahassee FL

About the role

Equifax is seeking an experienced and results-oriented Account Executive to join our growing Public Sector team. This position is based in Florida and is a remote role with frequent travel to Tallahassee, FL.

Responsibilities

• Provides services assigned to State Government accounts and identifies, qualifies, and closes new opportunities by designing and executing plans for existing or potential prospects.
• Develops and executes long-range planning and account penetration strategies to grow accounts.
• Participates in a rigorous account planning process, including development of a robust pipeline and accurate revenue forecasts that will yield strong and predictable revenue growth.
• Led capture and sales efforts by coordinating with cross-functional, geographically-diverse teams.
• Develops capture strategies, proposals, and customer facing artifacts for the purpose of pipeline development, deal advancement, and transaction closure.
• Utilizes enterprise solution selling strategies and integrates demand-generation sales approaches in all client-facing interactions.
• Exhibits executive presence to establish valuable relationships with client decision makers and directly leads negotiation of all client agreements.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending company-sponsored training, educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing tasks as needed.

Requirements

• 7+ Years of experience field sales, including at least 2 in state agencies, including selling in an account executive role within government agencies (e.g., Social Security Administration (SSA) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Existing agency relationships.
• Extensive knowledge of competitive and teaming landscape within the large agency ecosystems ie SSA and HHS
• Combination of public sector sales experience, as well as software-as-a-service solutions.
• Experience in the Credit Agency space, leveraging assets related to eligibility verifications, identity and fraud and credit data is preferred.
• Proven track record of meeting/exceeding sales quota in a growth organization.
• Proven track record of executing capture strategies and winning competitive pursuits in excess of $10M+
• Strong experience in Federal Government procurement and writing winning Federal Government competitive proposals.
• Strong business acumen and demonstrated strong understanding of aligning product/managed service offerings to customer mission and business requirements.
• Ability to travel up to 20%, more frequently if not based in Tallahassee, FL.
• Bachelor’s degree.

Qualifications

• Former director/deputy director/assistant secretary in Medicaid, SNAP, etc.
• Government engagement experience: e.g., government relations, campaign work, understanding of procurement and funding processes.
• Relationship builder: skilled at identifying and engaging with key stakeholders in person.
• Extensive knowledge of competitive and teaming landscape within the large agency ecosystems ie SSA and HHS.

Skills

• Experience using Salesforce City* Tallahassee State*
• Florida

Pay

Not Disclosed