What Is The Role
Elastics Professional Services team works across all of our technologies and systems to deliver solutions for our customers. Our Regional Services Sales Partner is crucial to the growth of our Services business and plays an essential role in growing our practice for our customers located on the West Coast within the Enterprise and Strategic market segments . You will have ownership of our customers Services journey from presales to launch while building trusted customer relationships including Clevel sponsors.
The Regional Services Sales Partner must be a strategic problem solver with exceptional enterprise commercial and crossfunctional skills demonstrate high energy and have strong sales management experience. The Regional Services Sales Partner is responsible for earning the right to be a trusted advisor to the customer with the primary goal of helping customers generate significant business value from their Elastic investment. This individual will be expected to understand and lead our customers throughout their lifecycle driving adoption through sales activity for new and existing customers. This will include pipeline generation delivering sales presentations to Clevel clients negotiating commercials and contracts and overseeing delivery. Under Elastics cosell model you will collaborate deeply with our Sales and Customer Success teams. The primary measurement of success for this role will be YOY growth in overall services bookings and customer satisfaction.
What You Will Be Doing
- Complete Elastic training and become an authority in our consulting methodologies and practices
- Evangelise Elastics ability to deliver business outcomes and our delivery methodology to our customers located on the West Coast within the Enterprise and Strategic market segments
- Apply industry expertise and business insight to understand a customers motivation business drivers strategic goals and objectives and desired business outcomes
- Engage customers especially CLevel using a consultative selling approach that positions Elastic and yourself as a longterm trusted advisor relationship
- Create a compelling vision and clearly communicate our transformative solutions with the goal of generating significant success and business value from a customers investment in the Elastic Stack
- Exceed growth and bookings targets ensure organisational health and drive customer satisfaction
- Develop and lead a territory plan and a personalized account plan for each customer which aligns with their business goals.
- Forecast accurately and timely build a pipeline and progress opportunities to deliver YOY growth
- Form a strong relationship with the Sales Customer Success organization and regional Alliances/Partner organizations that are instrumental to success. You should be able to operate in a cosell model collaborate and establish relationships
- Be an integral part of hiring and mentoring new Services Sales Partners
- Contribute to enhancing our delivery methodology services practice and industry POVs
What You Will Bring
- 10 years of consultative sales experience with a proven record of consistently exceeding quota
- Of which 5 years experience selling and/or delivering professional services for a strategic consulting firm large scale system integrator or professional services unit within a software company
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain Clevel relationships where you are recognized as a trusted advisor
- Experience growing accounts with large and complex pursuits ($M)
- Highly collaborative and excels in a complex matrixed environment
- Experience in creating outstanding responses to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFP
- Project/account management experience
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to thrive in a fastpaced dynamic environment
- Additional Leadership Qualities:
- PASSION: Passionate about Customer Success
- BEGINNERS MIND: Always learning approaches each interaction with an open mind a great listener and handson
- THOUGHT LEADER: Strong point of view and executive presence. Confident but not arrogant a great storyteller
- URGENCY: Ability to move fast and drive business value and results
- TEAM PLAYER: A great teammate that everyone enjoys working with and has a generous heart
- TRUST: Trust the companys core values and have the ability to build trust with everyone you work with
- ADAPTABLE: Excels in high levels of uncertainty