Aspen Technology
Sales Account Executive
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About Us
The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.
The Role
AspenTech is a leading supplier of software that optimizes process manufacturing – including oil and gas, petroleum, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and other industries that manufacture and produce products from a chemical process.
The Sales Account Executive maintains and expands relationships with strategically important large customers. Assigned to large accounts, the Sales Account Executive represents the entire range of company products and services to assigned customers whilst leading the customer account planning cycle and ensuring assigned customers' long-term needs and expectations are met by the company.
This is a customer facing role that requires self-motivated individuals with excellent business, industry, and sales knowledge. He/she will manage assigned accounts and opportunities, collaborating with account resources from marketing, pre-sales engineering and development, to maximize revenue growth and deepen our relationships with customers.
Your Impact
- Proactively leads a joint company - strategic account planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, financial targets and critical milestones
- Articulates solution business value to customers and leads solution development efforts that best address customer needs whilst coordinating the involvement of all necessary company personnel including support, service and management resources in order to meet account performance objectives and customers' expectations
- Demonstrate understanding of the customer's business priorities and initiatives. Discuss relevant trends and priorities integrating industry knowledge and solution knowledge.
- Proactively assesses, clarifies and validates customer needs on an ongoing basis
- Gather market information from multiple sources, to analyze competition and consumer/market trends.
- Achieves strategic customer objectives defined by company management
- Completes strategic customer account plans that meet company standard
- Ensures a high degree of customer satisfaction
- Achieves assigned sales quota in designated strategic accounts
- Closely coordinates company executive involvement with customer management
- Develop clear and well-articulated account strategy and plan to include white-space analysis and awareness plans.
- Overall ownership of the Deal Model process for assigned clients. This includes responsibility for proposals, contracts and pricing approval for licenses and professional services.
- Manage day-to-day sales process, coordinate account meetings, and effectively use Business Consulting (Pre-Sales Engineering) and Sales Support resources.
- Understanding of and execution against expected performance metrics, i.e., customer meetings per week, customer facing time, BPRs per quarter, pipeline quantity and velocity, etc.
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What You'll Need
- Demonstrated success at establishing and cultivating "C" level consultative relationships.
- Clear track record of leading and closing large/complex solution sales opportunities.
- Experience leading teams in a matrix organization with indirect supervision.
- Executive presence and demeanor a must.
- Self-discipline and motivation with strong influencing skills.
- +8 years’ experience of major account management.
- Minimum 8 years selling enterprise software, engineering solutions a plus.
- A University degree (bachelor’s or equivalent).
- Additional consideration for candidates with bachelor’s degree in chemical, Industrial, Production, or Petroleum engineering.
- Experience selling to customers in the Energy/Petroleum/Engineering industry.
- Familiarity with process modeling software products and services, advance process control / real time optimization, manufacturing execution systems and planning and scheduling solutions preferred.
- Knowledge of Chemical production and supply chain business processes
- Process industry knowledge.
- International company experience.
About AspenTech
AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our Digital Grid Management software suite, including AspenTech OSI products, helps power and utilities companies achieve superior real-time control, optimization and management for exceptional performance of complex energy networks.
If you're looking to make a difference every day and push the limits of performance, AspenTech is doing things no one else thought was possible. As a leading industrial software partner, we help companies all over the world run safer, greener, longer and faster.
With over 3700 employees and more than 60 global locations, AspenTech is meeting today's sustainability and business challenges head-on with unmatched expertise, cutting-edge AI-powered technology and a passion to innovate.
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AspenTech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. AspenTech does not discriminate against employees or applicants on the basis of age, race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or related conditions, marital status, familial status, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, citizenship, military service or protected Veteran Status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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