Senior Account Executive

Senior Account Executive, 4th Estate

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The US defense industry is being revolutionized by the use of social, mobile, cloud, and analytics technologies. Salesforce for Defense assists its customers and the supporting system integrators to establish more robust connections between citizens, employees, governments, and integrators. It enables them to access the information they require faster than before and at a reduced total cost of ownership.

We are looking for experienced sales professionals who have met their sales targets in the past to assist us in expanding our customer base in the Department of War community. Your duties will involve acquiring new accounts and generating new business in existing ones. Your sales territory will be concentrated on the 4th Estate/Defense Agencies (Defense Logistics Agency).

As an Senior Account Executive, you possess unique professional skills in opportunity management and solution selling. You take complete ownership of assessing customer business problems and driving them towards investment via successful contract execution. Your prior experience with complex sales to the US Department of War (DoW) and expert knowledge of the US DoW acquisition community is considered an advantage. With the drive and patience of a hunter, you can lead and empower a large matrix team of sales support roles that are hired to execute your sales strategies and tactics. Your preferred geographic location is the Washington, D.C. metro area.