Senior Account Executive, Equinix
CA$198-296k
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$198-296k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years experience preferred
- Bachelor's Degree required
What the job involves
- Accelerate Equinix’s growth in market share and revenue by penetrating new accounts and work cross-functionally to expand and grow existing accounts
- Protect/expand revenue in assigned accounts and work cross-functionally to drive high customer satisfaction
- Develop new accounts by working cross-functionally with specific emphasis in enterprise space
- Plans, builds, and maintains relationships with key stakeholders in assigned accounts/prospects
- Facilitates customer relationships to ensure timely resolution of customer issues
- Conducts quarterly business reviews with customers to identify and develop new selling opportunities
- Leads Executive Briefings
- Leads and drives coordinated sales approach with the extended sales team (Sales Engineers, Solutions Architect, Customer Care, SSA, Commercial Solutions, Sales Operations, etc.) and external partners (Reseller, Strategic Alliance, etc.)
- Collaborates with global sales team to sell global Equinix platform
- Demonstrates consistent cross region exports
- Understands business drivers of accounts and leverages strategic alliances and reseller partners to penetrate accounts
- Researches and documents detailed understanding of customer business and organizational landscape
- Develops strategic, global account plans focused on maintaining/growing accounts
- Drives strategic, global & multi-line of business global account plans
- Identifies customer’s business needs, challenges, and technical requirements to match to Equinix solutions in partnership with SEs/SAs
- Leading delivery of pitch, leveraging SE/SAs where appropriate; adapts pitch to customer needs and persona
- Proven proficiency of Equinix product set and solutions
- Sells full suite of Equinix offerings to include global footprint and achieves exports
- Leverages external partners to drive solution development in new areas/prospects
- Proactively addresses high churn risk customers leveraging internal resources and external partners
- Facilitates customer contract renewals and negotiations to protect revenue
- Leverages internal resources to understand customers contractual obligations around notice periods, renew terms, Equinix exposure
- Actively monitors and maintains status of opportunities in SFDC, following the principles of forecasting
- Identifies at risk accounts, expiring contracts and forecasts churn
- Prioritizes list of accounts/prospects for short and long-term pursuit to achieve assigned sales objectives
- Provides accurate forecasts
- May focus on particular vertical or sub-vertical within a dedicated sector
- Coordinates with Opportunity Development Team to strategize lead & sales opportunity qualification
- Pursues highest propensity prospects, fills the funnel with opportunities; pitching prospects primarily at C-level; leveraging industry contact sand partners
- Actively prospects account base to sell global platform and achieves exports outside of country
- Utilizes available tools to prospect and leverage account strategy plans
- Leads commercial offer and contract negotiations, leveraging internal resources as needed to obtain best commercial terms possible
- Understands commercial levers and problem solves to make initial recommendations on deal structure
- Partners with sales leadership to present at regional deal review
- Mentors Account Executives or other sales professionals; leads special projects, provides guidance to team on new products/processes/best practices
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Adaire Fox-Martin
(CEO & President)Prior to becoming CEO of Equinix in 2024, Adaire spent nearly 3 years at Google in various roles, including Head of Google Ireland and President of Google Cloud Go to Market. She also spent nearly 14 years at SAP and over 18 years at Oracle Corporation.
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