Strategic Account Manager, Workiva

• Requires an Associate degree and 3 years of successful experience in a similar role- preferably lead generation/sales development

Desirable

• The Strategic Account Manager partners closely with a team of Regional Sales Directors to drive pipeline for existing customers and net new logos. Strategic Account Managers accomplish this objective through a variety of strategies such as: social selling tactics, referral mining, people mapping, building and utilizing value pyramids, while collaborating constantly with Account Owners, Solution Specialist, Marketing, and Demand Generation teams
• Provide extensive research and intelligence within target accounts to identify key contacts and critical account information through people mapping exercises and developing value pyramids
• Prospect into target F1000 accounts via strategically networking, email, e-marketing, campaigns, and social outreach
• Qualify leads/contacts based upon specifically defined criteria to transition meaningful sales leads into the pipeline through detailed outbound hunting efforts
• Learn and demonstrate a fundamental understanding of Wdesk, and clearly articulates its capabilities and advantages to decision makers and influencers across multiple business disciplines, understanding negative consequences and positive business outcomes of strategic accounts
• Understand global personas in the offices of: Financial Transformation, Accounting, Finance, IT
• Drive attendance to various events (webinars, roadshows, Amplify, conferences, etc.), and provide post-event follow up, as well as creating unique events in territory that results in Qualified Pipeline
• Develop and maintains a current understanding of Workiva’s latest product offerings, and competitive product/ market knowledge
• Partner closely with Regional Sales Directors to develop ongoing engagement strategy with assigned customer and prospect accounts to drive revenue goals
• Meet or exceed quarterly goal for number of opportunity targets, revenue, and weekly/monthly performance activity indicators
• Maintain active engagement with existing customers & non-customers to increase interest in additional uses for the Wdesk platform by understanding their key initiatives and pain points
• Contribute to critical functions associated with fulfilling the sales cycle (forecasting, reporting, CRM maintenance, correspondence, and communications)
• Up to 10% travel
• Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office