Strategic Sales Specialist, Content Supply Chain

Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Account Executive who will be responsible for exceeding sales targets with the accounts in the FSI Industry. In this Adobe Experience Platform Specialist role, this position requires understanding of customer’s personalization, data activation and customer engagement goals to recommend Adobe solutions that drive business value.

The perfect candidate will achieve success through solution selling capabilities and direct, face-to-face contact with the customer. We want to hear from you if you are passionate about your work, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and are excited about innovative technologies that enhance customer journey and data profiling. This is someone who thrives on being on the front lines, prospecting, consultative selling, and winning!

What you’ll Do

• Develop and execute a plan with prioritization across accounts that serves as a success roadmap to exceed the quota.

• Perform outbound prospecting activities to generate new business within an existing Adobe customer base.

• Maintain an active pipeline of forecasted sales to meet and exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual quota objectives.

• Collaborate and Work cross functionally: (Product, Marketing, Legal, Finance, Deal Desk) to manage the sales cycle.

• Build strong, lasting relationships with customers by understanding their needs and business objectives and communicating how Adobe can solve them.

• Acquire and maintain a working knowledge of the complete capabilities of Adobe's Experience

• Work in a team selling environment.

• Develop Account Plans with Key Partners

What you need to succeed

•  Ability to understand client business objectives and tell the differentiated Adobe story of the solution.

• The ability to take richness of the Adobe Platform and simplify into a story of client business outcomes.

• A minimum of 5+ years large enterprise-level outside software sales experience. 

• Deep understanding of Enterprise sales cycle, preferable Marketing technology.

• Deep understanding of the competitive landscape for Adobe’s solutions.

• Proven track record of success and a history of exceeding quota

• Creative self-starter: ability to work independently.

• A curious nature.

• Strong skills in the following: communication, presentation, negotiation, organization, and attention to detail.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans.  Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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