Description

We are seeking proven sales performers to help us grow our loyal customer base for our ESMB segment in South India. This is a role for someone who is a hunter and hungry for new business success. Responsibilities include generating new business in new accounts and also expanding the footprint inside existing customers, as well as playing a key role as you drive strategic CRM initiatives for companies across the South India market. This is a role for someone who can see the value of Cloud Computing and who can be a combination salesperson and evangelist to get the Salesforce penetration into the sector growing even more. On top of your own business development, we provide a range of support functions to help create and drive opportunities from internal sales support to highly skilled pre-sales so it is not just you against the world.

Responsibilities:

- Developing and managing relationships within our ESMB segment focusing on customers in South India.

- Managing complex sales-cycles and presenting to C-level executives the value of our enterprise suite of applications.

- Forecast sales activity and revenue achievement in Salesforce, while creating satisfied and reference-able customers.

- Demonstrating our product via the Web.

Requirements:

- Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core proficiencies or the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

- 3 to 9 years of experience carrying quota and closing deals in software (business applications preferred) or technology sales.

- Successful track-record managing deals with customers in South India.

- Consistently over-achieved quota (top 10-20% of company) in past positions.

- Experience managing and closing complex sales-cycles.

Desired Skills:

- Strong and demonstrated written and verbal communications skills.

- Previous Sales Methodology training preferred.

- CRM experience preferred.

- Ability to work in a fast pace, team environment.

- Strong customer references.

- Strong computer skills, including CRM, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

About Salesforce:

Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes’s “World’s Most Innovative Company” six years in a row and one of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” nine years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and this level of growth equals incredible opportunities to grow a career at Salesforce. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for "family") made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world.