Account Executive - General Business - Sweden

1 Month ago • All levels • Business Development

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Job Description

As an Account Executive - General Business - Sweden, you will manage a dedicated set of customers and prospects within the General Business space, overseeing the entire sales cycle. You will coordinate multiple sales projects simultaneously and take full responsibility for your customers. This role focuses on new business sales while expanding existing accounts. You will use your solution selling expertise to respond optimally to customer needs and identify business potential to create strategic, long-term partnerships. You will also strengthen client relationships through regular engagement and face-to-face meetings, organize and manage industry events and user groups to generate market interest, and work in partnership with the team of Business Developers, Pre-sales and Marketers for all sales leads and sales opportunities. Value-based selling is a crucial skill for this role, requiring deep customer insights, effective communication, and a consultative mindset.
Must have:
  • Proven track record in sales, ideally with a SaaS/software background
  • Emphasis on customer acquisition and positioning of complex enterprise applications
  • Experience with larger SMEs or Enterprise Customers
  • Credibility at all levels
  • Strong relationship building internally and with customers
  • Effective communication skills with ability to build influential relationships
  • Successful history of net direct new business sales
  • Ability to consistently deliver against targets
  • High motivation, resilience and ambition
  • Fluent in both Swedish and English
  • Right to work in Sweden
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree
Perks:
  • Clear and structured career path
  • World-Class Training & Development
  • Constant learning and knowledge sharing
  • Environment for an entrepreneurial-minded person
  • Freedom to design own go-to-market strategy
  • Responsibility for the entire sales cycle
  • Planning and implementation of marketing events
  • Support from a professional team
  • Regular customer meetings face-to-face in-country
  • Comprehensive training offering supplemented by individual coaching
  • Chance to work in a dynamic, fun and challenging environment
  • Highly competent and low ego peers to collaborate with
  • Gym subsidy
  • Travel Scheme
  • Education Subsidy
  • Pension
  • Bootcamp in Dublin
  • 7 Volunteering Days a year
  • Free snacks and drinks

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Sales

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Your Mission as an Account Executive

  • You manage a dedicated set of customers and prospects within the General Business space, overseeing the entire sales cycle. You coordinate multiple sales projects simultaneously and take full responsibility for your customers. For us, the General Business space includes the largest SME companies, positioned just below Enterprise Companies.

  • Manage the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics, with a strong emphasis on new business sales, while expanding existing accounts.

  • Use your solution selling expertise to respond optimally to customer needs and identify business potential in order to create a strategic, long-term partnership with your customers

  • Strengthen client relationships through regular engagement and face-to-face meetings

  • Organise and manage industry events and user groups to generate market interest

  • Work in partnership with our team of Business Developers, Pre-sales and Marketers for all sales leads and sales opportunities.

  • Value-based selling is a crucial skill for this role. This approach requires deep customer insights, effective communication, and a consultative mindset.


What we are looking for:

  • Proven track record of success in sales, ideally with a SaaS/software background with emphasis on customer acquisition and positioning of complex enterprise applications for larger SMEs or Enterprise Customers

  • Credibility at all levels and evidence of building strong relationships internally and with the customer at every level.

  • Effective communication skills with ability to build influential relationships and deliver results in a cross-functional environment

  • Successful history of net direct new business sales, with the ability to prove consistent delivery against targets

  • High motivation, resilience and ambition to build a career at Salesforce

  • Fluent in both Swedish and English & Right to work in Sweden

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree
     

What's in it for you:

  • Clear and structured career path into Senior and Leadership positions within the company

  • World - Class Training & Development in the areas of professional growth and product knowledge

  • Constant learning and knowledge sharing with some of the best complex-selling professionals in the industry

  • Environment for an entrepreneurial-minded person with a lot of energy, ideas and courage for their implementation

  • Freedom to design the own go-to-market strategy

  • Responsibility for the entire sales cycle, from acquisition through to signing deals

  • Planning and implementation of marketing events

  • Support from a professional team (marketing, sales program, solution engineering, business development)

  • Regular customer meetings face-to-face in-country

  • Comprehensive training offering supplemented by individual coaching

  • Chance to work in a dynamic, fun and challenging environment where we will make sure you reach your full potential:

  • Highly competent and low ego peers to collaborate with; Gym subsidy, Travel Scheme, Education Subsidy, Pension, Bootcamp in Dublin, 7 Volunteering Days a year and free snacks and drinks, etc.

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