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Account Executive / Public Sector NHS - Splunk
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Account Manager - NHS Vertical
Are you passionate about new technologies, digital resilience and are looking to join a growing and dynamic organisation?
Following a successful year for our UK Public Sector Team, we are hiring an Account Manager to focus on our NHS customers in the south of the UK.
This role will focus on supporting and developing our existing customers, whilst looking to build out our footprint in this extremely important vertical, solving our customers complex problems using Splunk’s big data analytics platform.
Responsibilities:
- Consistently over-deliver against targets meeting deadlines and delivering predictable revenue.
- Managing your own business portfolio - helping to shape the strategy for an exciting sector, with long-term prospecting plans, driving complex account mapping, and diligently managing sales opportunities with a myriad of stakeholders.
- Collaborating with internal and external partners for maximum efficiency and scale.
- Leveraging industry leading in-house sales engineering resources, wider specialist teams and the wider Cisco business to uncover and progress new business opportunities.
- Blending the Splunk sales methodology with your own sales acumen.
- Be a good listener and problem solver, helping prospective customers solve their challenges using Splunk, and guiding them on their data journey.
- Being an empathetic corporate citizen – nurturing a two-way flow of relevant and timely information.
- Working within and mutually supporting a high-performance team, to deliver beyond expectations and ensure the most efficient employment of critical resources.
- Guiding all activities delivered your own account team and a broader group of Splunk contributors/supporters.
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Requirements:
- A demonstrable track record (minimum 3-5 years) in building, managing, and delivering successful sales results within the NHS vertical.
- Unquestionable understanding of the NHS sector - being able to understand the challenges of the sector and apply the Splunks value stack to it.
- Being a hungry sales professional with a passion for our customers and their success.
- Account Management experience (minimum 3-5 years) and experience leading customers through complex challenges.
- Experience of collaborating with channel partners, GSI’s and ISV’s to uncover new opportunities.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
- Outstanding interpersonal presentation skills and able to communicate comfortably at C-Level.
- A growth mindset - accepting that there is something to learn every day.
- Strong executive presence - very comfortable with ‘C-Suite’ engagement (both internally and externally).
- Experience of closing sophisticated, multi-million dollar software licence deals, through multithreaded networking and negotiation.
- Shrewd understanding of SaaS forecasting. Understanding how to handle sales target risk, taking ownership for committing and closing future deals and forecasting accurately.
- Thriving in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment with high expectations of all team members.
- Able to work independently and remotely, whilst being equally comfortable in collaborating with other team members and corporate colleagues.
- Prepared to travel to visit customers (weekly), and to attend industry and internal events in person when required.
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