Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

• Partners with sales account managers, pre-sales consultants, Partner Sales staff, and professional services colleagues in the expansion of sales within existing and/or new accounts, while building relationships with key decision makers.
• Navigates a complex, enterprise sales environment to understand customer needs and promote/develop competitive business propositions for their specialist area of the company's product portfolio.
• Uses account planning and management skills to address customer needs timely and with competitive solutions.
• Follow up on leads generated by business development, inside sales, marketing and partners and qualify the funnel of opportunities, as well as create new pipeline via prospecting efforts.
• Timely documentation within CRM / Marketing software of customer contact and activity data is required of this role (e.g. names, titles, contact information, opportunity value, product information, sales stages, probability, business pain, firm-future commitments, etc).
• Accountable for accurate forecasting and regular quarterly revenue delivery for specialist product area.
• Communicates company news/product updates to existing customers and prospects
• Identifies and defines use cases for Informatica products. 
• Coordinates through initial launch of use cases on Informatica platforms.
• Effectively address Client satisfaction and issues until resolved. This will include coordinating internal resources that interact with each Client.
• Manage the onboarding process for new select Informatica Clients.
• At this level, incumbents will have subject matter expertise in selling the company’s products and services, with deep expertise in their specialization.
• Assigned opportunities/engagements are typically the largest and of the most complex and strategic nature, where attributed expected revenue retirement would be among the highest of the sales specialist roles.
• Incumbents routinely sell-to and interact with the senior-most customer executive and CXO level decision makers.

Knowledge & Skills

• Holds broad expertise or unique knowledge to contribute to development of company objectives or to achieve goals in creative and effective ways.  
• Extensive industry knowledge and understanding of a customer’s decision-making process, goals, strategies, and business objectives.
• Exhibits confidence and expertise with presentations, customer service, financial/business acumen, and negotiation skills at all levels of customer engagement.
• Holds a complete understanding and can articulate upon the business and technical contexts of key accounts.
• Authoritative leader by example on accounts and compels others to get on board.
• Mentors others at consultative effectiveness and establishing trust with internal and external customers.
• Deep functional knowledge of hybrid deployment of software solutions, Data Warehousing, Database, and/or Business Intelligence software concepts and products.

Education/Experience

• BA/BS or equivalent educational background is preferred.
• Minimum 12+ years of relevant professional experience.