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Account Director, Commercial Sales (Remote)

Houston, Texas, Sapienza Consulting [1861]

Field(s) of expertise
Marketing and Sales
Job type
Permanent
Education
Bachelor
Deadline
Closed

About this job

Sapienza Consulting is working with many exciting new ventures around the world involved with innovative New Space technologies surrounding earth observation.

On behalf of our Canadian client GHGSat, we are looking for an experienced Account Director for their satellite derived methane monitoring products. These products help companies across commercial sectors identify and analyze methane gas emissions helping them proactively mitigate and manage the risk of loss of their valuable product. As an Account Director at GHGSat, you’ll be spearheading initiatives selling their solutions, along with their vision of helping the customers dramatically reduce the risks and impact of methane gas emissions across key verticals. They’re looking for those who love building new relationships with senior business owners and decision makers (CTOs, CEOs, Heads of Operations and Business Unit owners) about using their monitoring and data solutions and running the overall strategic relationship with these customers (including white space identification, contract negotiations, etc.)

Responsibilities

GHGSat is looking for an excellent teammate who has shown success in prior roles. Your responsibilities will include:

● Prospecting and handling high-value prospects and customers. You will contribute to the fast-growing business, and source new opportunities to provide GHGSat’s solutions

● Build robust territory plan to grow existing accounts and breakthrough at greenfield accounts

● Driving opportunities for product use cases around data, analytics, and emissions monitoring

● Work with and mentor Account Executives and Sales Development Reps on your team, to drive new leads and sales

● You will deliver the technical win and product fit at customer accounts. You will build customer trust in GHGSat and their solutions, which results in customer success in the post-sale. The Account Director, is both technical and a skilled relationship builder. They can clearly articulate complex value propositions

Profile

Required:

● Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or other relevant background

● Proven experience selling solutions to Oil & Gas, Waste Management, Mining and/or Financial Services

● 5+ years experience selling SaaS solutions into commercial sector

● Strong track record of sales performance

● Experience building and selling Data and Business Analytics solutions

● Strong team selling skills that involve cross functional teams of generalist AEs, product management, and executive sponsors

● Hands-on, passionate, and creative problem solver with know how to get things done and ability to lead others to success, focusing on creating value

● Strong understanding of metrics and KPIs

● Highly visible, excellent communicator and presenter able to gain confidence of c-level audience

● Ability to build a deep understanding of an enterprise’s emissions solutions’ needs and guide them to a technical solution

● Ability to learn, embrace change, and be a team player

Traits of Great Account Executives:

● Fluent with technology – Must be comfortable with both using and selling the technology

● Understands the value of the product – Can convince prospects of the true value of the technology

● Knows the ideal customer profile inside and out – Knows how to look for specific customer characteristics

● Values long-term customer success – Always looking to help the business succeed overall, not just them

● Always minimizes discounts – Reps who focus on the value of the product, not the price

● Understands venture capital and how it impacts working for a VC back company – Great SaaS sales reps can reassure prospects that their business will be there tomorrow, next month, and years from now

● Creates strong connections with customers – Great written and verbal skills – The best SaaS sales reps can engage prospects through email and the phone almost as well as traditional reps can close deals in person

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