Senior Account Executive (German) - Sales Solutions

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The intention is for any future openings of this role to offer a hybrid work option, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Any future openings of this role will be based in Dublin, Ireland. 

As a Senior Account Executive, you will use your strategic selling skills to educate prospective customers in the DACH market on the benefits and value of our two core solutions: Sales Navigator and Sales Insights. You will serve as a trusted adviser, share insights and continually seek opportunities for growth to make your customers as strong and successful as possible.  

Responsibilities:  

• Inspire yourself, our company and your customers to embrace a new method of connecting value to customers  
• Leverage your skills and your customers’ experience to continually evolve our solution offerings and the sales process  
• You will own a book-of-business, therefore you will need to create, develop and execute strategic plans for your territory and deliver reliable forecasts  
• Consistently meet and exceed the business and revenue objectives set forth in your plan  
• Drive revenue by connecting with customers and building opportunities that will make all parties more successful  
• Adapt but also work to develop, apply and circulate a set of best practices that will be the foundation of this growing team  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:  

• Fluency in English and German 
• 3+ years of applicable sales experience    

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Track record selling SaaS solutions, CRM platforms or software platform solutions   
• Proven ability to work to a quota and achieve results   
• Demonstrated ability to find, manage and close high-level business sales   
• Ability to assess business opportunities and read prospective buyers   
• Ability to predictably forecast and execute on business goals   
• Ability to use insights and data-driven decisions in the sales process   
• Ability to effectively build trust-based relationships with senior-level sales professionals   
• Ability to bring together multiple buyers in the same company to build groundswell while  
• leveraging partners within LinkedIn to effectively evangelize the solution.   

Suggested skills:  

• Prospecting  
• Analytical skills & Forecasting  
• Multithreading  

Additional Information

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