Account Executive, Renaissance

• Experience in educational software sales (3+ years)
• Proficiency in teamwork tools (e.g., Outlook, Teams, etc.)
• Ability to manage full-cycle opportunities using CRM (e.g. Salesforce)
• Familiarity with relevant legislation and policy for assigned territory

Desirable

• The Account Executive I has meaningful sales experience and brings developing expertise to the customer engagement, solves customer problems with the appropriate Renaissance products
• Responsible for cultivation and long-term maintenance of territory and customer relationships, new customer acquisition, and collaboration with Account Managers and other internal partners
• This position requires regular travel for customer engagements, conferences, and other revenue-generating activities
• Prospect: Build and drive plans to identify and qualify net growth opportunities through prospecting (in-person and virtual meetings, emails, phone calls, etc.) and campaigns
• Manage Opportunities: Manage opportunity pipeline, engage multiple decision makers to ensure communication and consensus through the life of the opportunity and uses networking for openings to increase opportunity value
• Consultative Solution Sell: Research and sell solutions aligned to customers’ unique problems and strategic objectives. Lead across the account team and cross functional internal and external partners to develop winning solutions
• Close Business: Consistently close business that has progressed past needs development and independently develop persuasive presentations to overcome late-stage deal obstacles to win customer confidence and support
• K-12 Education Competence: Possess a deep knowledge of the K-12 education space including public, private, and parochial schools. Strong understanding of K-12 districts and school administrative roles, funding, purchasing habits, policies, practices, trends, and school board oversight
• Domain Expertise: Possess strong technical knowledge of common tools and trends in ed-tech space; staying current on probable future policies, practices, and information affecting customer prospects or businesses
• Account Planning: Drive coordinated as well as personal account planning activities that leverage relationships and account contacts. Build business plans, prioritize efforts with an understanding of account potential and a grasp of competition, funding, policy, regional issues, customer needs and constraints
• Customer Retention: Build and maintain customer loyalty and personal connections. Plan and deliver on objectives, ask for references and secure repeat business
• Strategic Account Planning: Develop long-term account plans that will drive strategic growth across territory and secure support of internal and external team members