Enterprise Account Executive - Defence

Salesforce Defence Sales Person

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The Defence team is seeking a senior, strategic, and mission-driven sales person to drive the future direction and growth of our business across the UK Defence landscape. This role demands a proactive person capable of aligning the world-leading Salesforce platform to the complex challenges of the Defence Industry. The successful candidate will be a recognised expert and executive advisor, translating critical mandates—such as the Digital Backbone, Data-Driven Defence, and the shift toward Multi-Domain Integration—into tangible mission value.

We are committed to supporting those who protect the nation, from frontline personnel to logistics and procurement specialists, by delivering enhanced situational awareness and operational efficiency. If you thrive in a high-stakes, collaborative environment and want to work with the world's leading technology team to secure the UK's future, we encourage you to apply.

Our Enterprise Account Executives engage with existing customers and new leads to sell the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform. They build positive, trusted relationships with both key team members and c-suite decision makers within their patch, and become natural at helping customers realise value from their Salesforce investments.

You will use your skills to develop opportunities, through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.

Responsibilities:

• Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts
• Develop and drive the overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned with customer business objectives
• Lead the end-to-end sales process through the engagement of appropriate resources such as Sales Engineers, Professional Services, Executives, Partners, etc.
• Territory identification and research, to formalize a go-to-market territory strategy and create a qualified target account list within 30 days.
• Share Salesforce value proposition for existing and/or new customers
• Drive growth within an existing assigned account

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Demonstrated success of quota carrying, technology solution-based direct sales experience.
• Account Planning Strategies: Create account plans to retain and grow ACV (Actual Contract Value) with existing accounts with a focus on upsell, and cross-sell.
• Research and Discovery: Uncover customers' current processes, business objectives, and strategic goals based on customer discovery, use cases, and value hypotheses.
• Solutioning: Identifies compelling value propositions that address customer needs by demonstrating an understanding of technology solutions.
• Customer Communication: Interacting with customers in a clear, concise, and timely manner using a variety of communication methods (writing, speech, presentation) and tools (whiteboarding, Slack, Google Slides, Zoom).
• Resource Application: Continuously runs toward results using the full capabilities of available resources and tools.
• Team Selling: Aligns with the full capacities of the account team and partners to support the deal and customer success.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Sales Methodology education.
• Ability to develop cases and service requirements, while crafting and leading strategic alliances.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Track record of consistently achieving or surpassing quota.
• Ability to work with multiple internal teams, govern, inspire, and leverage resources to align with account objectives.
• Experience will be evaluated based on alignment with the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

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We are a recognised Disability Confident member under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the interview scheme as part of the application process. If you would like to apply under the scheme, please click the link to the Accommodations Request Form above and scroll to the UK Disability Confident Scheme section within the form.

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