Sales Executive - Associate Director, Core Accounts (Bay Area/Silicon Valley)

Location: San Francisco, Palo Alto, San Jose, San Mateo

Sales Executive – Associate Director, Core Accounts (Bay Area/Silicon Valley)

Our Sales function brings together business, sector, and account knowledge along with EY competencies and solutions to meet unique client needs. The Sales & Strategic Pursuits Organization shapes and drives an integrated growth strategy across EY's most strategic accounts, industry sectors, solutions, and services, while demonstrating and achieving market leadership through a client centric culture.

The opportunity

Reporting to the Core Growth Sales Leader, as a Core Growth Sales Executive (SE), you'll be focused on specific Account(s) with high growth potential.  You'll deliver exceptional client service by understanding your client's issues and challenges, leveraging the firm's capabilities to originate and drive new business opportunities to grow revenue and deepen the customer relationship management. You'll drive global account strategy, rigorous account planning and relationship development across the client(s) organization.

Your key responsibilities

• As a Core Growth Sales Executive, you'll be responsible for delivering Sales impact through personal sales contribution and deal origination goals, owning client relationships, pipeline development/advancement, sales excellence, and account operational effectiveness.
• Approximately 80% of your time will be externally focused, actively engaging with your client(s). Additional time will be spent on sales strategy, pursuits and account planning initiatives.
• You’ll help develop and drive the sales and growth strategy at your assigned accounts in conjunction your account team members as well as relevant sector, service line and solutions teams.

Skills and attributes for success

• You'll need to thrive in a matrixed organization, balancing the needs of the client against business initiatives and goals.
• Your ability to develop and execute on a sales strategy at your assigned accounts to build and develop relationships leading to billable engagements is crucial to your success.
• Your ability to develop and build networks will be instrumental in connecting with colleagues across the leadership team and service lines to drive a coordinated market effort. Possessing natural coaching skills, you'll inspire others with your actions in the market.
• You'll be a trusted advisor to your accounts’ Coordinating Partners and the account team, acting in a consultative manner.
• You'll be the catalyst that pulls stakeholders together to drive strategic initiatives and enable revenue growth.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 10-12+ years of business development/sales experience in professional services and solutions
• A proven record of selling complex digital, technology and/or managed services solutions to the "C" level of Fortune 500 companies on a global level
• Have strategic, large account experience
• Outstanding client management and relationship skills, strong executive presence and influencing skills.
• Strong knowledge of current and emerging sales tools, methodologies and go-to-market models including social media.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of market trends, competitive landscape, and industry related to Accounts/Sector which can inform sales strategies and positioning.
• An understanding of standard procedures for account/sales operational activity
• Strong sector or technical content expertise 
• Strong ability to handle and resolve conflict.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Ideally, you'll also have

• An advanced degree or MBA
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills
• Team selling experience.
• Ability to travel. 

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.