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The Opportunity
This role is Hybrid workstyle.
Nutanix is a cloud software vendor that provides solutions for hybrid multi-cloud environments under the vision of "One Platform. Any App. Any Cloud." Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, we are a global leader in the hybrid cloud solutions industry, with over 7,000 employees worldwide and continuing to grow.
We provide solutions that eliminate vendor lock-in and simplify operations for customers facing challenges while choosing between on-premises or public cloud environments. By promoting infrastructure automation, our solutions enable IT departments to focus on applications and services more closely related to their business, while achieving one-click management and operations across public, private, and edge cloud environments. By simplifying management and operations, we reduce system complexity and TCO. Furthermore, by transitioning to such flexible and agile solutions, companies can rapidly adopt new technologies and maximize the utilization of their cloud environments.
Additionally, we have been recognized as one of Bloomberg's "50 Companies to Watch in 2020" and Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2020."
【Job Description】
You will be responsible for account planning to expand business with strategic customers in Japan, approaching existing and new departments or organizations within those accounts, and driving business growth. You will collaborate with technical, marketing, and support departments to achieve budget targets.
Your Role
Responsibilities:
- As a high-touch sales professional, you will be responsible for expanding existing business and acquiring new customers by approaching end-users directly or selling through SI partners.
- To develop sales opportunities through SI partners, you will penetrate new departments and organizations within assigned partners to build and develop new sales relationships.
- Schedule and attend sales call appointments with prospective customers.
- Discuss business issues with prospects, develop quotes and sales proposals, and conduct presentations that address their business needs.
- Respond to RFPs and follow up with prospects.
- Develop account plans based on customer business needs.
- Build and strengthen business relationships with existing customers and new prospects.
- Recommend marketing strategies.
- Report pipeline status to your manager.
- Provide or facilitate training opportunities for customers.
- Provide product feedback to the engineering team to improve Nutanix solutions.
What You’ll Bring
Requirements:
- Ability to build relationships directly with customers as a high-touch sales professional (existing relationships are a plus).
- Strong verbal and written presentation, proposal, and communication skills.
- Understanding of assigned customers' business (applications and infrastructure), or a strong willingness to learn.
- High level of forecast management capability and accountability (proficiency in SFDC or other CRM software).
- Ability to collaborate smoothly with employees across sales, marketing, sales operations, system engineering, and product development departments.
- Aptitude for understanding how Nutanix solutions solve business problems and knowledge of the competitive landscape.
- Proven track record of exceeding sales quotas for multiple consecutive years.
- 5+ years of experience in IT solution sales.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification/experience.
How We Work
We are a fully hybrid team. We provide you with the flexibility to work from home or work in the office in order to maximize your productivity. Our office is clean and modernized. There is occasional travel for team events but for the most part we stay connected through weekly meetings and daily slack chats.
Description
Essential to success in this role is a keen ability to develop new business in relationship with Strategic Customers and to penetrate new divisions and organizations within such accounts. Nutanix provides unrivaled support and tools from the Engineering, Marketing, and Product Development departments for you to leverage to exceed sales performance goals.
Responsibilities
- As a high-touch sales, you have responsibilities for acquiring new customers and expanding the business through selling with SI partners.
- Develop selling opportunities through SI partners; penetrate new divisions and organizations within relative channel partners; develop new selling relationships within relative channel partners; develop new customer opportunities.
- Schedule and attend sales call appointments with a prospect in the customer.
- Discuss business issues with prospects and develop a formal quote, a written sales proposal or a formal sales presentation addressing their business needs.
- Respond to RFP's and follow up with prospects.
- Develop an account plan to sell to customers based on their business needs.
- Build and strengthen the business relationship with current accounts and new prospects.
- Recommend marketing strategies.
- Provide status information to your manager including forecast/pipeline information.
- Provide, or facilitate training opportunities for your accounts.
- Provide product feedback back to engineering to improve Nutanix complete block solutions
Skills
- Strong verbal and written communications skills including presentation skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with employees within the sales function and across functions including Marketing, Sales Operations, System Engineering, and Product Development.
- Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques.
- An aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems as well as the competitive landscape.
- Ability to communicate with senior managers about their business challenges and Nutanix data management storage solutions.
- Experience using SFDC and other CRM software.
- Track record of exceeding assigned sales quotas in contiguous, multiple years.
Qualifications and Experience
- 5 years of B2B sales experience preferred.
- Experience that demonstrates a strong level of expertise in technical specifications required to sell Nutanix products and services is required.
- Track record in running large accounts (Inbound/Outbound) in the Data center or Cloud space.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.