Senior Account Executive

The Team:

You will join our Swiss Account Team which is responsible for selling into existing enterprise customers based in Switzerland and help those global leaders optimize their end-to-end processes and increase operational efficiency through our Process Intelligence platform.

The Role:

Applying a consultative sales approach, you will create and cultivate relationships to build and maintain customers for life. You will be responsible for generating new additional business opportunities within a set of key enterprise accounts within the Swiss territory. You will collaborate cross functionally to understand the account’s needs and drive the end-to-end sales-cycle.

The work you’ll do:

• Manage your accounts from an existing customer perspective, land-and-expand is the typical model
• Engage cross line-of-business at C-level and below
• Drive Celonis Process Intelligence sales motions across the entire core enterprise value chain, with a focus on Finance, Supply Chain and other industry /customer specific use cases, translating core challenges into compelling, AI-enabled use cases that deliver measurable Execution Capacity.
• Hold an individual revenue target for closing six-seven-figure deals within your accounts
• Engage closely with partners e.g, consulting firms and SaaS vendors
• Drive complex sales cycles through orchestrating virtual teams including business development representatives, marketing managers, partner managers, sales engineers / pre-sales, customer success managers, professional services, implementation partners…

The qualifications you need:

• 5+ years of relevant experience, ideally spanning both Management Consulting and SaaS sales, or a proven track record of success and career progression in either domain
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders and engage effectively at the C-level (CFO, CPO, COO, etc.)
• Strong business acumen and a deep understanding of key processes and KPIs throughout the entire enterprise value chain in the Manufacturing Industry, particularly within the domains of Finance and Supply Chain.
• Solid understanding of one or multiple of these industries: Manufacturing, CPG/Retail, Life Science and General Professional Services
• Strong communication and presentation skills in German (fluent) and English
• Ability to adapt to a fast moving, ever changing, high growth environment and approach challenges with positivity, creative thinking, and a growth mindset
• Willingness to be collaborative, inclusive, to embrace diversity and to have strong interpersonal skills #differentmakesusbetter
• Ability to leverage internal resources and work as a team #bestteamwins