Senior Account Executive, Strategic Acquisitions, APAC
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Job Summary
Location: Gurgaon India
At LinkedIn our approach to flexible work is centered on trust andoptimizedfor culture connection clarity and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days asdeterminedby the business needs of the team.
The Vision of LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) is to create economic growth opportunities for every organization worldwide. We do this by creating an environment for the best talent toleveragetheir skills being the most effective place online for marketers to engage with professionals and by improving results for our marketing partners. The Growth and Mid-Market Org of LMS empowers organizations to reach engage and convert their professional audience at scale. Within GMME our Acquisition teamis responsible forwinning new logos helping them achieve their growthobjectivesbyutilizingbest-in-class products and services.
We are looking for an experienced sales professional to join our Acquisitions team as a founding team member for our high value acquisition motion. This role willbe responsible foracquiringnew logos ( direct and agency supported) and play a key role in building this new sales motion from the ground up.
Your key responsibilities will include prospecting managing pipelines owning the full sales cycle and forecasting. Additionally it will involve creating joint playbooksestablishinghandoff processes developing enablement materials and collaborating with cross-functional partners
Your key goal will be generating customer value by selling a range of advertising solutions that help customers achieve their business and marketingobjectives. The ideal candidate will be an exceptional enterprise seller results-oriented with a growth mindset and strong prioritization skills.
Responsibilities:
- Build our acquisition sales business model while managing your sales book and quota.
- Prospect into marketing decision makers at and partner closely with our agency teams on closing referrals.
- Collaborate with clients to understand their marketingobjectives target audience and overall business goals to provide best-in-class customer engagement
- Advise prospective customers on effectivelyutilizingLinkedIns range of marketing solutions and manage complex RFPs requests.
- Provide updates to the management team on your pipeline and sales forecast.
- Be proactive about solving problems and be prepared to shape the evolution of this new sales motion for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions.
- Inspire continued innovation by regularly sharing ideas and best practices with peers and manager
Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications:
- 8 years of experience in advertising/media salesstrategyor other similar roles
- Experience working in a complex matrixed and cross-functional organization
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- 10 years of experience in digital media sales
- Proventrack recordof meeting and exceeding aggressive growth targets
- Experience working with complex agency referrals and full cycle enterprise sales for net new business
- Ability to think strategically with a proventrack recordof achieving results by connecting a customers pressures with data-driven products and solutions.
- Ability to effectively manage time prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little supervision
- Proven communicator adept in presenting to senior large-scale audiences
- Strong collaborator that works well cross functionally across the company and externally
- Demonstrated ability to lead inspire and work in a rapidly changing environment
- Experience working with large Enterprise level Agencies and Customers
- Proven ability to build and scale projects
Suggested Skills
- Consultative Selling
- Sales Acumen
- New Business Acquisition
- Strategic Thinking
- CXO Selling
Additional Information :
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Key Skills
- Sales Experience
- Direct Sales
- B2B Sales
- Public Relations
- SAAS
- Account Management
- Product Demos
- Salesforce
- Outside Sales
- CRM Software
- Enterprise Sales
- negotiation
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