Cloud Resilience Account Executive - East & Chicago

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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. 

The Opportunity

The Cloud Resilience Account Executive is responsible for achieving quota by selling Commvault Cloud SaaS solutions into a defined territory that includes current Commvault customers and prospects. The position is an overlay field sales role where they are responsible for supporting Enterprise and Commercial Segment Account Executives face to face or virtually on sales meetings. This role will align to multiple Sales Leaders, supporting opportunities from their teams and leading specific stages during the sales process (e.g. demos, POCs, TCO discussions, etc).  

This person must have the ability to articulate an in-depth discussion, starting from understanding the end user’s environment, current challenges/goals, and align Commvault SaaS solutions to those challenges/goals including a financial and strategic value proposition.  

The candidate must have a history of success in selling software platforms (SaaS preferred) and have experience selling within the local partner ecosystem. 

**Must be located in any East major US City or Chicago, Illinois to be considered for role**

 

What you’ll do… 

• Qualify leads that cover a specific set of SaaS services, and help field sellers in developing business opportunities in order to achieve revenue quota on a quarterly and annual basis
• Maintain a high level of face-to-face and/or virtual meeting activity with customers, prospects and partners in alignment with the guidance and priorities received from the Sales Leaders (AVPs and Sales Directors)
• Partner with Commvault field sellers and pre-sales engineers on specific SaaS opportunities and work jointly to closure
• Be able to coach and share best practices with the broader sales and GTM organization
• Foster strategic working relationships with customers, maintaining a high level of contact
• Prepare and present sales proposals and presentations to prospects and existing customers with quantifiable business cases and strategic and technical value propositions
• Provide support in negotiating and closing deals following the company’s practices and processes
• Leverage internal sales tools and processes to help driving opportunities to a successful close
• Plan, attend, and coordinate executive briefings
• Maintain a high level of relevant industry, SaaS and competitive knowledge
• Be able to take responsibility of the specific SaaS goal for your territory, accurately forecast the business and hold to that commitment 
• Be the owner of your business in your territory, ensuring end-to-end management of the identified specific SaaS services (including sales activities, forecast, planning, reporting, QBRs, etc.) 

 

Who you are… 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent working experience
• Minimum of 5+ years’ demonstrated success in software sales
• Understanding of the SaaS data management industry, products, competitors, history, emerging trends and changing marketplace
• Minimum of two years’ success in identifying, building relationships and selling with channel partners
• Excellent communication skills, persuasive, listening skills
• Background in cloud, data center infrastructure, or cyber security
• Strong financial selling skills, specifically building and delivering TCO models
• Working understanding of the public cloud offerings (AWS, Azure and GCP)
• Experience working with RTM (routes to market) partners hyperscalers, alliances and GSI
• MEEDIC knowledge and participation in account planning activities
• Strong working relationship with legal to accelerate agreements required for closure.
• Experience selling solutions through public cloud marketplaces  

 

Meet the Hiring Manager:

Mike Odisho - Area Vice President, Overlay Sales

 

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 qualification training in MEDDIC 
• An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
• Generous global benefits 

 

Ready to #makeyourmark at Commvault? Apply now!

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Thank you for your interest in Commvault. Reflected below is the minimum and maximum base salary range for this role. At Commvault we use broad salary ranges in our job postings to reflect the diverse levels of expertise and experience among our candidates and is not reflective of the total compensation and benefits package. The specific salary offered will be determined based on your unique qualifications, including your relevant experience, skills, and the value you bring to the role. While the range provides a general idea of the compensation, it is important to note that placements within the range are not automatic and will be carefully considered to ensure a fair and competitive offer. We are committed to rewarding talent and experience.

Pay Range$93,500—$207,000 USD

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.

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