Avalara is looking for an Enterprise Sales Executive to join a group of dynamic sales professionals. The role involves increasing net new sales growth by selling Avalara's sales tax compliance solutions and achieving individual sales targets within the partner ecosystem.
Responsibilities:
- Identify sales opportunities through lead follow up, partner relationships and direct prospecting
- Work closely with Oracle Account Executives and Oracle Product Solution Engineering team
- Manage sales process through qualification, need analysis, product demonstration, negotiation and close
- Develop relationships with Avalara partners and other third parties to increase opportunities
- Develop and maintain a high level of knowledge about Avalara's solutions and offerings
- Maintain an understanding of the marketplace, competitive offerings and other business issues relevant to the position
- Experience balancing multiple sales opportunities to maximize results
- Document daily sales activities in Salesforce, prepare accurate reports and forecasts, manage pipeline and perform other tasks necessary to increase sales revenue and communicate activities to sales management
- Be an active team player both on the sales team and throughout Avalara to help meet our goals
- Provide feedback from field experience to other teams with regards to product and selling matters
Requirements:
- 5+ years of successful B2B sales experience within the Tax Compliance or FinTech industry with an emphasis on acquiring new customers
- Experience working with leading Oracle cloud ERP platforms and their partner networks
- Must have experience handling high velocity and complex selling situations
- Documented success achieving and exceeding assigned quotas
- Consultative, solution-based sales methodology
- Experience using AI and AI-related technologies