General information

Country
United Kingdom
City
Remote Location
Department
Sales
Job ID
32683

Description & Requirements

The Senior Account Executive is responsible for driving the Business Development team, qualifying leads, and helping the team drive opportunities to successful close. A deep understanding of the Retail sector and the associated supply chain software and processes including Supply Chain finance, Intercontinental trade and logistics, Supply Chain Visibility and Transportation Management is important.

The candidate must have a proven ability to own their pipeline, develop executive level relationships and drive sales through opportunity planning, executive involvement and value selling. The successful candidate will be expected to achieve consistent quarterly quota achievement. A solution selling background is strongly desired as you position Infor solutions in complex Retail enterprise markets. A good sense of humor is a must, we want to have fun.

A Day in The Life Typically Includes:

  • Work with Business development team to ensure high quality pipeline generation.
  • Work closely with prospective clients to understand their business objectives and create appropriate solution to meet their business needs.
  • Articulate the Infor product suite value proposition and successfully communicate the competitive advantages, resources and processes to client and prospects.
  • Develop compelling value propositions based on ROI cost/benefit analysis.
  • Develop customer account strategies and tactical penetration plans and establish, document and maintain solid communication and follow-up procedures for all assigned accounts.
  • Manage a highly consultative sales cycle.
  • In some instances, collaborate with Industry sales reps in overlay model.

What You Will Need:

  • Proven sales record with SCM and/or WMS suites with large, complex, strategic accounts in Europe
  • Demonstrated success in achieving $500K+ annual quota
  • Strong understanding of the competition within the EMEA region
  • Establishes and manages executive level customer relationships
  • Manages multiple complex sales cycles simultaneously
  • Thrives in a matrix-management environment with extended team members

What Will Put You Ahead?

  • Driven by success and self-motivated.
  • Can-do attitude
  • Excellent time management, communication, decision-making, presentation and organization skills.
  • Proven ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly changing environment.
  • Ability to grasp concepts and new technology quickly.
  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

About Infor

Infor delivers end-to-end ERP and strategic edge applications that are integrated and delivered in a multi-tenant cloud. We believe that customers need industry-specific solutions and that one size does not fit all.

We are proud to serve more than 68,000 companies worldwide. Infor is a standalone subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc., which has annual revenues of over $110 billion.

For more information visit www.infor.com

Infor Values:

Our Guiding Principles set the standard for how we work with one another. They define who we are as an organization and guide everything we do. By applying the same shared values that unleash prosperity in free societies—such as value creation, integrity, responsibility, free speech, and toleration—we encourage one another to take initiative and to challenge the status quo.

 

We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management™ (PBM™). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM™ prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.