[Hiring] Enterprise Account Executive @Anaplan

Role Description

Anaplan is seeking an Enterprise Account Executive (German speaking) to drive its growth and expand its presence in Germany. In this role, you will take your proven track record of selling sophisticated technology solutions and account management and sell an incredibly versatile platform. Our sales team is helping industry leaders understand the impact of Anaplan products and how our connected planning solution is ending siloed decision-making. You will help our customers achieve their immediate business goals while setting their business up for the future.

This role will be a catalyst to Anaplan’s continued growth while leading digital transformation. Reporting directly to the RVP of Sales, you will have mostly greenfield accounts. This type of territory requires someone to further build our footprint by hunting and locking in new logo accounts, as well as rapidly growing opportunities within the current customer base.

Your Impact

• Engaging with targeted prospects and clients to identify broken business processes and position Anaplan’s unique ability to solve the problem.
• Build Anaplan’s business value throughout the selling engagement.
• Navigating sophisticated prospect environments to align the prospect around the Anaplan solution.
• Conduct highly effective presentations from Director through SVP and key C-suite level decision makers including CFOs, CROs, and senior leaders in supply chain, workforce, and other business functions.
• Develop customers and own opportunity management start-to-finish across multiple customer targets and functions.
• Apply Anaplan’s value-based selling methodology and tools to run sales processes and accurately forecast business.
• Employ outstanding account leadership skills to identify account expansion opportunities by cross-selling and up-selling opportunities within targeted accounts.
• Perform strategic sales planning, leading to accurate forecasting of the business.
• Work with cross-functional members of Sales Development Reps, Marketing, Solution Consultants, and the Customer Success teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in consultative sales to Fortune 2000 companies, ideally in SaaS solutions (but not required).
• Shown success selling into Vice President / Senior Vice President buyers.
• Track record of overachieving sales quota & targets, including demonstrated history of multiple high six-figure annual contract value (ACV) deals (services and/or software).
• Demonstrated network in your industry territory, with a mix of some customers and implementation partners.
• Demonstrated experience with sophisticated partner & internal team organizations.
• Domain understanding (Supply Chain, FP&A, Workforce Planning & Sales) and knowledge of how these functions plan, process work and make decisions.
• Strong, demonstrated opportunity management practices (e.g. sales process, qualification, executive presentation skills, quote presentation and negotiation), and ability to balance multiple (3-5) opportunities at once.
• Business, Finance, Economics, related BS/BA degree or relevant years of experience.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Outreach, SFDC, LinkedIn Sales Navigator a plus.
• Account Planning experience Altify, MEDDPICC, Miller Heiman.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)

We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader.

We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.