Overview
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks - keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, data security, data intelligence, and fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data.
Responsibilities
* The SaaS Sales Specialist is responsible for achieving quota by selling Commvault Cloud SaaS solutions into a defined territory that includes current Commvault customers and prospects. The position is an overlay field sales role where you support Enterprise and Commercial Segment Account Executives face to face or virtually on sales meetings. This role will align to multiple Sales Leaders, supporting opportunities from their teams and leading specific stages during the sales process (e.g. demos, POCs, TCO discussions, etc).
* You must have the ability to articulate an in-depth discussion, starting from understanding the end user’s environment, current challenges/goals, and align Commvault SaaS solutions to those challenges/goals including a financial and strategic value proposition.
* You must have a history of success in selling software platforms (SaaS preferred) and have experience selling within the local partner ecosystem.
* Qualify leads that cover a specific set of SaaS services, and help field sellers in developing business opportunities in order to achieve revenue quota on a quarterly and annual basis.
* Maintain a high level of face-to-face and/or virtual meeting activity with customers, prospects, and partners in alignment with the guidance and priorities received from the Sales Leaders (AVPs and Sales Directors).
* Partner with Commvault field sellers and pre-sales engineers on specific SaaS opportunities and work jointly to closure.
* Be able to coach and share best practices with the broader sales and GTM organization.
* Foster strategic working relationships with customers, maintaining a high level of contact.
* Prepare and present sales proposals and presentations to prospects and existing customers with quantifiable business cases and strategic and technical value propositions.
* Provide support in negotiating and closing deals following the company’s practices and processes.
* Leverage internal sales tools and processes to help drive opportunities to a successful close.
* Plan, attend, and coordinate executive briefings.
* Maintain a high level of relevant industry, SaaS and competitive knowledge.
* Be able to take responsibility for the specific SaaS goal for your territory, accurately forecast the business and uphold that commitment.
* Be the owner of your business in your territory, ensuring end-to-end management of the identified specific SaaS services (including sales activities, forecast, planning, reporting, QBRs, etc.).
Who you are
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent working experience.
* Minimum of 5+ years’ demonstrated success in software sales.
* Understanding of the SaaS data management industry, products, competitors, history, emerging trends and changing marketplace.
* Minimum of two years’ success in identifying, building relationships and selling with channel partners.
* Excellent communication skills, persuasive, listening skills.
* Background in cloud, data center infrastructure, or cyber security.
* Strong financial selling skills, specifically building and delivering TCO models.
* Working understanding of the public cloud offerings (AWS, Azure and GCP).
* Experience working with RTM (routes to market) partners, hyperscalers, alliances and GSI.
* MEEDIC knowledge and participation in account planning activities.
* Strong working relationship with legal to accelerate agreements required for closure.
* Experience selling solutions through public cloud marketplaces.
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* LI-remote
Commvault is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are always committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status and we will not discriminate against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.
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