Customer Base Account Executive EMEA

When you join Kainos, you get to think beyond limitations to make an immediate and positive impact – like transforming digital services for millions of citizens or helping Fortune 500 companies get live and thrive on Workday.

You’ll be part of a people-first culture that is growing around the world. We’re a creative, committed, and diverse group of individuals who succeed as a team. At Kainos your ideas are heard and valued and you’ll leave a legacy that you can feel proud of. Join us and discover how our people write our story.

About The Team

You will join our Customer Base Sales team selling into enterprise level clients across the world. You will work inside our Sales & Marketing function with a core focus on commercial activity. You will join a high performing team that thrives in a high-pressure environment. We are an international and super fun team that is diverse and collaborative.

About The Person

You are a team player with a positive can-do attitude and entrepreneurial mindset. Ideally, you have a strong understanding of Workday and or other HR and Finance platforms. You are happy to go into our Belfast office 2 days a week.

You thrive in a dynamic fast-moving environment that is constantly adapting to change. Willingness to travel at least once per quarter for client visits, conferences, and user groups. This person flourishes in a quota driven, highly competitive, high performance and pressurised environment. You possess the ability to plan and prioritise your time effectively to meet deadlines in accordance with business and customer requirements.

Essential Requirements:

1. Sales Experience: Minimum of 1 year experience closing deals in a Sales Executive or Account Management role. Experience in value based consultative selling and closing. Quota delivery, Pipeline management and accurate forecasting experience. Experience selling to the office of CHRO or CFO (HR / HRIT and Finance Leaders).
2. Communication: Excellent communication skills, active listening, written, verbal articulation and presentation skills with proven capability of delivering a value-based proposal.
3. Educational Background or Professional Experience: Minimum Bachelor’s degree with concentration in Arts, Science, Business, Information Technology, or significant professional sales experience.
4. Proficiency in Dynamics 365 or other CRM (SFDC, HubSpot etc.).

Desirable

1. Experience in creating Account Plans, segmenting product whitespace, defining wallet share, using tech stack such as Zoom info and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
2. Inside sales, sales development, or account management.

About The Job

Retaining and growing an existing base of customers in your defined territory. You may become the Account lead for a set of defined Accounts across EMEA. You may become fully responsible and accountable for all Kainos Workday Product commercial activity and account management matters with these customers. Initially, you will work in close partnership with a group of Account Directors and Account Managers in the EMEA region.

Your key responsibilities will include:

1. Delivering against monthly, quarterly and annual individual and team targets (revenue and activity) in the pursuit of generating qualified pipeline.
2. Account Planning with Account Managers and Directors on prospecting and opportunity qualification activities - Working independently to engage and generate opportunity from initial Discovery to Qualification.
3. Understanding buyer persona challenges as they relate to Workday, actively listen, build trust, articulate their challenges, and propose potential solutions.
4. Collaborate with the Customer Base Marketing Manager, Account Managers, Directors VP to assist in the creation and execution of demand generation.

At Kainos we have a flexible work model and you will be able to enjoy a mix of 50% onsite with customers or in our Belfast office and 50% remote work.

So what are you waiting for? Let’s write the next incredible chapter of our story together.

Embracing our differences

At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are. We also believe every candidate deserves a level playing field. Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out. We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.