Senior Account Executive - Southeast

About the role

OutSystems is seeking a Senior Account Executive to cover an assigned territory, add new logos, manage the entire sales process from discovery to close, and leverage their network to gain access to selling opportunities. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in a direct sales role and the ability to partner with System Integrators, Channel, and Alliance partners. Excellent communication, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently are essential.

Responsibilities

• Uncover and manage new selling opportunities in a geographic territory
• Call on and develop relationships with C-level executives across business and IT units for named accounts
• Execute a sales process that validates and qualifies the technical and business requirements of the customer in order to close the business
• Articulate the value proposition and be familiar with ROI and TCO tools at a business level to provide to Business Stakeholders
• Negotiate contracts, up-sell and cross-sell, build customer rapport
• Achieve sales quotas in a territory on a quarterly and annual basis by developing a sales strategy in the allocated territory with a target prospect list, and a regional sales plan to include selling with and through partners
• Prospect, effectively qualify, and develop new sales opportunities and ongoing revenue streams from new and existing accounts
• Work with Global and local SIs and Channel partners to promote OutSystems solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of direct and indirect selling experience within the enterprise software space and 3+ years within the application & application development space, SaaS, PaaS and Cloud offerings
• Strong technical sales background with the ability to explain the business value to executives, experienced managing complex sales processes
• Experience/Success with named account selling model
• Proven track record of partnering with Global and Local System Integrators and Channel Partners

Salary

Base Salary: $120,000 - $150,000