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Account Executive with English

2 Months ago • 3-5 Years • Business Development

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Job Description

Brandwatch seeks a driven Account Executive with 3-5 years of SaaS sales experience and a solid understanding of social media. You'll build your pipeline, manage the sales process, and meet targets. Strong English communication skills are essential, and experience with new business sales is highly valued.

Must have:

SaaS sales
Social media
English skills
New business

Good to have:

Digital marketing
Consultative approach
Team player
Organized work

Perks:

Team environment
Growth opportunity

Brandwatch, a Cision product, empowers over 5,000 of the world’s most admired companies to understand and engage with customers at the speed of social.

Combining pioneering, AI-enriched digital consumer intelligence with industry-leading social media management tools, Brandwatch offers a complementary suite of specialized, best-in-class products and services that support intelligently connected workflows. With Brandwatch, brands and agencies can adapt and thrive in today’s fast moving digital world by making smarter decisions and executing data-driven social strategies at every customer touchpoint.

Operating and serving clients the world over, Brandwatch has 17 offices across the globe and more than 1,000 employees worldwide.

Account Executives (AEs) play a huge role in the sales process.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to impact the growth of our business by closing new business deals. The role focuses on identifying client needs and showing them how our platform can work for them. You will be responsible for reaching out to potential clients to learn their current pain points with social media and sell our solution.

If you consider yourself a high performer, with a proven track record in sales combined with a solid understanding of social media, then you might be our next Account Executive.

What you will do:

Be our resident expert in social at Brandwatch by calling on new business, running demos and selling our solution;
Be supported with warm leads from a large SDR function along with inbound marketing leads;
Actively build, maintain and grow your own pipeline;
Manage the entire sales process from initial contact to hand off;
Meet and exceed quarterly targets;
Have a consultative approach;
Bring your swagger and have an opinion;
Be an absolute expert on our brand, business, and SaaS product;
Stay current on industry news and understand the social media landscape.

What you will need:

3-5 years proven sales success (mid-market SaaS experience);
Solid understanding of social media and/or digital marketing;
Excellent command of both written and spoken English;
Team player attitude, eager to be part of an ambitious team;
Exceptional ability to organise work and tasks;
Experience with new business sales;
You are motivated to take on the challenge of new sales and are hungry to meet your goals;
Ability to thrive in a performance oriented international environment with short or long sales cycles.

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If you’ve found our job opportunity interesting but you don’t meet all of the requirements, it’s still worth applying. We’d love to hear from you!

At Cision, we're revolutionizing the way brands connect with their audiences. We provide PR, marketing, and social media professionals with the tools they need to excel in today's data-driven world, enabling them to see and be seen, understand and be understood by the audiences that matter most. Our deep expertise, exclusive data partnerships, and award-winning products, including CisionOne, Brandwatch, and PR Newswire, empower over 75,000 companies and organizations, including 84% of the Fortune 500, to achieve their goals.

Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ pledge and named a “Top Diversity Employer” for 2021 by DiversityJobs.com.

Cision is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected statuses.

Cision is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Cision will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact hr.support@cision.com

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