Senior Account Executive

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries.

Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Job Description

Senior Account Executive

Locations:

Chicago, IL, San Francisco, CA | Hybrid

Get To Know The Team:

In this field sales role, you will be working directly with our largest corporate clients, enabling some of the most strategic and highly visible transactions in the business world. You will be covering our Fortune 1000 customers on the West Coast, selling Debt Capital Markets and Enterprise solutions to the deal community.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:

• Identify and establish C-level and VP-level relationships with key corporate dealmakers, typically in Corporate Development organizations, through the delivery of key insights that assists their business and business value from the SS&C Intralinks platform that solves specific business pains.
• Leverage Solution Selling techniques to drive the sales process and close opportunities through expert negotiation including managing the contract and approval process for new deals.
• Develop sales strategy and account plans, leveraging data, to gain greater market share, prioritize and segment your accounts, and identify key go to markets.
• Proactively research M&A and customer industry trends with the intent of providing value added customers insights in support of the customer’s deal making process and business objectives.
• Deliver unique SS&C Intralinks value propositions to customers through a variety of channels including field, phone meetings, social media, and virtually. Employ value-based conversations to arrive at a highly differentiated solution for unique audiences.
• Build and maintain strong sales pipeline and forecast, through consistent outbound activities, delivering quality discovery calls and meetings, providing exceptional customer service, and proactively delivering solutions that solve customer business pains.
• Lead cross functional teams to deliver exceptional value and experiences to customers including partnering with Customer Success, Customer Support, Marketing, Engineering, Legal, and Sales Operations.
• Meet or exceed set Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), for example on number of calls and meetings and other sales-based activities.
• Manage all information in our Salesforce.com CRM system related to the account(s).
• Contribute to the development of sales strategy through input of ideas and suggestions to senior management team.

What You Will Bring:

• Bachelors’ degree or equivalent experience required.
• Minimum 4 years of sales experience and proven success achieving quota in a SaaS environment.
• Solution Selling training and experience.
• Ability to successfully prospect, conduct client presentations and high-level demonstrations as well as manage an entire sales cycle with the goal to generate new business and grow existing revenue streams.
• Strong account management, territory management, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage a highly transactional book of business, with a focus on driving a large amount of sales activity into the defined territory list.
• A positive attitude, strong cross functional teamwork, and professional demeanor along with the flexibility to work in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment with many clients.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, CRM and web-based technologies such as LinkedIn and Merger market.
• Language skills (English).

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! To further explore this opportunity, please apply through our careers page on the corporate website at .

SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan. SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.