New Business Account Executive, Mid Market Self-Sourcing

As a Mid Market, Self-Sourcing New Business Account Executive, you will drive the company’s growth through strategic engagement with medium-sized organizations, navigating their more complex decision-making structures to secure new business opportunities. In this role, you will focus on understanding the unique challenges and needs of mid-market clients, crafting customized solutions that deliver substantial value. Your success will be built on your ability to effectively manage full sales cycles, from initial contact through to deal closure, while orchestrating interactions with multiple stakeholders to achieve consensus and facilitate decision-making processes.

What You Will Do:

• Proactively identify and cultivate relationships with potential clients within the mid-market space, focusing on organizations with 100 to 1000 employees.
• Proven ability to self-source leads through proactive prospecting, networking, and leveraging personal strategies to build and maintain a strong sales pipeline
• Develop a deep understanding of the specific challenges related to the prospects go-to-market efforts and effectively position ZoomInfo solutions to solve the customer challenges..
• Manage sophisticated sales cycles that range from two weeks to six months. This includes deep discovery discussions, rich presentations, managing proof of concept requests, multi-threading accounts and building custom proposals among other steps. Executing with precision and alignment to the client's needs is critical.
• Employ a structured yet flexible sales approach that can adapt to various buying processes and timelines.
• Lead negotiations for deals ranging from $15k to over $100k, crafting proposals that meet both client expectations and company profitability goals.
• Navigate contract complexities to close deals efficiently while maintaining a focus on long-term client relationships.
• Engage and align multiple stakeholders within client organizations, including senior executives, ensuring consensus and fostering strong partnerships.
• Utilize excellent communication skills to articulate the value of solutions in meeting the client's strategic goals.
• Maintain a robust sales pipeline, accurately forecasting sales outcomes to meet and exceed quarterly and annual targets.
• Prospect into key target accounts to create new opportunities through strategic email outreach, cold calling and social networking to enrich the pipeline on top of inbound leads.
• Collaboratively share best practices across the team, enhancing the overall ZoomInfo selling strategy with your strengths.
• Leverage CRM tools to track and analyze sales activities, providing insights into pipeline health and operational effectiveness.
• Continuously gather intelligence on market trends, competitor activities, and potential opportunities within the mid-market sector.
• Contribute strategic insights to the sales and marketing teams to refine offerings and enhance go-to-market strategies.
• Performs other duties as required/assigned by manager.

What You Bring:

• 2+ years of experience in prospecting and self-sourcing opportunities, with a proven track record of effectively identifying and engaging potential clients in similar markets
• Demonstrated experience in managing complex sales cycles within the mid-market sector, with a proven track record of closing high-value deals
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, capable of navigating complex buying environments
• Exceptional negotiation and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage and influence diverse stakeholder groups
• Proficiency in CRM and sales forecasting tools, with a strong analytical approach to sales management
• Dynamic, motivated individual with a persistent drive to achieve sales targets and contribute to company growth

This is a hybrid role, working a minimum of three days per week from one of our US offices.

The US base salary range for this position is $68,750 to $104,500 + variable compensation + benefits ($125,000 to $190,000 OTE (on target earnings)).

Actual compensation offered will be based on factors such as the candidate’s work location, qualifications, skills, experience and/or training. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific salary range for your desired work location during the hiring process.

We want our employees and their families to thrive. In addition to comprehensive benefits we offer holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being. Learn more about ZoomInfo benefits here.