Major Account Manager - MEA

What You Will Do Daily:

• Generate new leads and opportunities within an assigned account set, representing our largest and most strategic existing customer base at Sonar via upselling and cross-selling.
• Ensure that minimum requirements are established, managed and maintained with customers, such as quarterly business reviews.
• Onboard customers throughout their entire journey with SonarSource commercial products.
• Develop relationships with champions within existing customer accounts.
• Size and quote customer software license needs.
• Negotiate and close upgrades to existing implementations.
• Interact with customers over phone, email, video conference, and on-site meetings when necessary.
• Support marketing efforts with account-based customer-focused marketing campaigns.
• Pro-actively engage in building, growing and sharing sales team best practices.
• Accurately capture and report all aspects of account and opportunity information within the SFDC platform.
• Utilize Salesforce.com to set daily activity and accurately forecast opportunity pipeline.

The Experience You Will Need:

• Proven successful 7+ years of experience in a B2B sales role, ideally in a SaaS or subscription model. Focus on building and managing customer relationships. Experience selling a technical product to a technical buyer.
• Experience selling to the Middle East/MEA market
• Proven expertise in account planning and prospecting, using various channels and tools for prospecting, such as Zoominfo, LinkedIn, calling and networking.
• Expertise in navigating and growing a pipeline in existing customer accounts and taking a deal from Lead Qualification to Closed Won.
• Familiarity in supporting and selling to large enterprise customers and managing and negotiating larger (> 100k USD) enterprise deals.
• Ability to drive the sales process effectively through phone calls, emails, and virtual and on-site meetings.
• Proficiency in communicating with executive-level contacts and delivering value messages based on the persona you are engaging with (bottom/up and top/down approach)
• Salesforce.com lover; you know it and can’t imagine sales without it.
• Customer-Centric focus; We Want Happy Customers.
• Written and spoken English at a professional level. 
• Solid communication and listening skills: handling objections and taking feedback and coaching.
• Team player interested in seeing the company goals achieved alongside the team and individual goals.
• Self-driven and proactive attitude

Why You Will Love It Here:

• Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!). 
• Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains. 
• We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
• We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
• As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
• We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.