Account Executive

at  Volue

Our mission is to provide innovative services critical to society, unlocking a cleaner, better and more profitable future. Working towards this goal, Volue has become a leading technology supplier and enabler of the green transition, helping energy companies simplify and optimize everyday operations.
We are now looking for Account Executive who can help us to continuously improve Volue’s ability to provide value to customers in line with the Volue mission.
An Account Executive will produce new business sales revenues through account and territory planning, researching prospect customers, and completing field-based sales activities within a defined set of prospects and existing customers. Account Executives (AE) own accounts: typically, 10-20 existing customers and 10-20 prospects. The AE is responsible for overseeing all relationships within the account, develop strategic account
plans, define up- and cross-sell motions and closing new clients by managing the entire sales process from lead to signed deal and handover to delivery/customer success. The AE needs to have a deep understanding of the market dynamics and customer’s needs and translate how Volue’s software solutions and services can deliver customer value. The expected results are set by the yearly action plans.
The AE collaborates with the Sales Development Representatives, Solutions Sales Experts, and Sales Engineers. Additionally, the AE involves colleagues from Product, Delivery and Managed Services into the sales cycles. Moreover Sales Operations, Deal Desk, and Legal are close partners to win a deal. Marketing is the partner in crime if it comes to customer events and lead generation.

• Create and maintain account plans for the prioritized accounts
• Oversee client relationship mapping to the account team and orchestrating an account strategy, while developing and maintaining strong relationships with decision makers and influencers
• Be a trusted advisor to the customers and prospects by understanding their business and advising on how Volue’ solutions can help them
• Oversee all aspects of the sales cycle, from lead generation, identification of the business issue and how Volue can bring business value, to expectation management and deal closure
• Present, promote and sell solutions and services using value-based arguments
• Identify the right specialist / support resources to bring into a deal, at the right time
• Coordinate resources within the organisation who support customer success through adoption and by that ensure renewal
• Win new logos for Volue
• Generate a qualified pipeline of opportunities with existing clients and prospects, and maintain the status, the forecast, and progress in our CRM system
• Negotiate and close agreements within the given proxies and in compliance with Volue’s sales process
• Avoid customer churn by involving and supporting the right specialist / support resources to improve customer satisfaction
• Achieve agreed sales targets according to the compensation plan