Description
SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
Job Description
Senior Account Executive
Locations: Chicago, IL
About the Role
In this field sales role, you will be working directly with our largest corporate clients, enabling some of the most strategic and most 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 Join SS&C
SS&C combines proprietary technology with deep industry expertise to support complex financial and health care operations. Our teams design, implement, and operate solutions that help clients manage data, automate processes, and scale their businesses with confidence.
You will work with industry experts, modern platforms, and evolving technologies, gaining exposure to real-world operational challenges and large-scale enterprise environments.
How You Will Make an Impact
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).
Contributes to the development of sales strategy through input of ideas and suggestions to senior management team.
Required Experience
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).
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Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
SS&C Technologies offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off, holidays, and parental leave; and professional development reimbursement opportunity.
Actual base salary will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to relevant skills, prior experience, education, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Illinois: The expected base salary for the position is between $120,000 USD to $150,000 USD.
In addition, employees in this role may be eligible for consideration on an annual basis for a discretionary bonus and/or equity awards, such as restricted stock units or stock options, based upon individual and business performance at the company's discretion.
This role is exempt and also eligible for certain commissions. In addition, employees in this role may be eligible for consideration on an annual basis for equity awards such as restricted stock units or stock options, based upon individual and business performance at the company's discretion.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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.
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