Momentus' sales team is looking for a driven and dynamic Inside Sales executive to bring their Saas and hunting expertise to win new business in the event management space.

Responsibilities: 

• Win new accounts and grow existing business with Momentus solutions to meet and exceed revenue and profit targets.
• Be responsible for consultative solution selling, listen to the needs of prospective customers and clearly articulate the value proposition of Momentus solutions.
• Prepare effective client presentations and run efficient meetings.
• Apply tactical and strategic go-to-market models aimed at growing the customer base both in the short and long terms to drive higher revenues, customer growth, and to improve customer retention.
• Build strong partnerships at the senior leadership level of prospect organizations and establish new business relationships.
• Increase visibility for the Momentus brand with customers, prospects, and alliance partners through participation at industry events.
• Support weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecast processes, including pipeline analysis, data validation, and identify required gaps and actions items.
• Collaborate across internal teams to increase your knowledge of the product and ensure you bring the best solution to our clients.
• Other duties assigned.

We are looking for a hungry, focused and resilient hunter sales person with great collaboration and sales execution skills to help grow the business across the market unit. 

The Account Executive will be selling into a focused list of strategic target accounts, you will be entrepreneurial in nature and excel at building pipeline, creating and closing opportunities. By using a consultative approach to value-based selling, you will lead with IFS's award winning products while also having access to the broader portfolio to bring value to our customers. You will use your industry knowledge and enterprise software sales expertise to identify and qualify deals, leading to sales opportunities with our existing customer base. 

The role is positioned within a high-growth market unit. This is an organisation going through transformational growth (organic and inorganic).  We are an ever-evolving business, challenging and disrupting the industry standards which are too often accepted by some of our competitors in the global enterprise software space.

Our go-to-market strategy is focused on geographical and key industry verticals within a matrixed sales organization. 

Responsibilities

• Strong sales execution and continued sharpening of these skills
• Prepare, update, own and execute the Go -To- Market Strategy for nominated industries
• Prepare, own, and maintain Territory Plan for agreed vertical
• Prepare Account Plan including deal action cards, mutual evaluation plans, and power maps for named accounts
• Own the end-to-end sales process including demand generation, understating customer needs, agreeing a mutual evaluation process, owning the RFI/RFP process, building a business case for change and winning business, and utilising resources within a matrix organization to get the job done.
• Work with partners to better penetrate into your accounts, creating joint sales plays that accelerate deal cycles and maximize value while providing strong delivery plans that lead to happy referenceable customers
• 100% responsibility for owning the annual sales targets and delivering as per the quarterly budget
• Continued pipeline building and demand generation activities to achieve 4x pipeline coverage
• Liaison with Sales leadership and Global teams to build a strong internal network and collaboration
• Manage and maintain complete CRM and Account hygiene, at all times, along with sales cadence, administration and reporting to ensure accurate forecasting

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

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Your Role  

You will be responsible for the insertion of our solution portfolio and growth of our business by winning transformational business opportunities across communication service provider customers in our ANZ region with particular focus on our most strategic tier 1 customers in the territory. You will establish and nurture key business relationships at all levels and particularly with C-suite stakeholders and carry a sales target which will be retired through your personal sales success and ability to win deals. You will work closely with fulfilment partners where necessary and consult with our mainstream Ciena account team but drive your own sales and engagement strategy to ensure the integrity of the Blue Planet brand is maintained and recognized as a value-based brand to deliver vendor neutral, multi-domain and multi-layer automated service operations to the telco service provider. You will report to the head of the Blue Planet sales & business development team for the international sales region and manage a dispersed virtual team of contributors to secure your objectives. This role involves extensive travel both to customer premises and other Ciena locations at sometimes short notice.

Your Responsibilities

• Achieve annual sales targets and grow Blue Planet’s solution footprint in customer organizations
• Stringently qualify newly identified sales opportunity in both existing and new customers and present your recommendations to the Blueplanet Snr leadership team on request using established tools, templates and methodologies.
• Establish, maintain, and develop critical business relationships with key business, technical and operational stakeholders at all levels including C-suite contacts in your customer organization.
• Develop, document, and execute a business development strategy that promotes Blue Planet capabilities and solutions, aligns to customer strategy, and secures new and continued sales growth through progressive wins.
• Identify and work closely with Blueplanet technical and fulfilment partners to achieve common objectives in your customer base and provide a force multiplier effect to build the opportunity pipeline.
• Work closely to achieve your goals and foster good working relationships with other agencies in Ciena and Blue Planet including product management & engineering, solution architecture, marketing, sales, and commercial management.
• Maintain, grow and document a sales and opportunity pipeline commensurate with sales targets and manage it effectively in Salesforce.com.  Provide accurate sales forecasting and reporting on a periodic basis
• Lead a virtual team of contributors in the response to customer RFx documentation or unsolicited proposals and ensure on time quality delivery to promote greatest chance of success.
• Create compelling and differentiated commercial frameworks and pricing strategies in consultation with our sales operations, commercial management & finance organization that align to customer expectations and create ongoing, profitable repeat business opportunity.
• Work closely with our PLM, engineering and delivery organization to ensure a joined-up approach to ensure customer success at all levels.
• Maintain high levels of training and awareness of market developments, customer strategies and Blue Planet portfolio enhancements.

About You:

You will have already demonstrated your ability to succeed in similar organizations and have an impressive track record that illustrates your competence in highly complex, high value transformational projects. You will have a solid technical understanding and an ability to translate the technical into business value propositions that align to your customers vision and strategic aims whilst being able to robustly qualify and identify the difference between real opportunities and technical science projects. You will be able to motivate a team of contributors to work with you to achieve your goals and objectives and above all you will be charismatic, fun to work with and ready to roll your sleeves up to work hard to build on our success so far and have a willingness to take on responsibility and accountability for your own objectives.

Minimum Qualifications 

• Excellent written and spoken English with demonstrably sound presentation and communication skills.
• 10/15 Years+ experience in selling complex operational systems and services with evidence of demonstrable success in winning high value deals.
• Sound working knowledge of OSS platforms and solutions including competence in Orchestration, Assurance, and Inventory management.
• Solid foundation of established and referenceable relationship at all levels including C-suite preferred in your designated customer.
• Solid working knowledge of MS office applications with an ability to create basic working commercial models in MS Excel and translate into customer TCO templates
• BSc degree qualification at 2:1 or above in computing science or engineering disciplines is desirable.