Senior Portfolio Representative -DACH

Directly sells enterprise software solutions across the breadth of the company’s products and drive incremental license and subscription revenue. This role develops and owns the relationship within assigned accounts/territory and maximizes Informatica’s footprint within them. Incumbents effectively collaborate with other teams, including pre-sales, professional services, marketing, channel management, finance and customer support, as well as external parties such as Alliances and Channel Partners. This is a field sales position where extensive travel to the customer’s location is regularly expected and key to the performance of the role. Travel is up to and may exceed 50%, based on the needs of the business.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Expands sales within existing and/or new accounts while building relationships with key decision makers.
• Develops and executes a strategic and comprehensive business plan for each account, including identifying core customer requirements and mapping the benefits of Informatica’s solutions to customer business requirements.
• 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, regular quarterly revenue delivery, and the implementation of agreed account and business plans.
• Collaborates with Marketing to develop an effective plan for the accounts, to include events, seminars, and roadmap sessions.
• Promotes Informatica’s products, maximizes brand recognition and mindshare at all levels, and publicizes success stories.
• Provides customer feedback to internal stakeholders for product, systems, and process improvements.
• At this level, incumbents will have expert-level knowledge of selling the company’s products and services.
• Assigned accounts are larger and of the most complex nature, where assigned quota is typically higher than lesser-scoped portfolio sales role levels.   (Size of quota may be relative to complexity and nature of account set.)
• Incumbents routinely sell-to and interact with executive-level customer decision makers, to include up to CXO levels.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Holds expert-level experience and uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.
• Deep industry knowledge and understanding of a customer’s decision-making process, goals, strategies, and business objectives.
• Expert-level presentation, customer service, financial/business acumen, and negotiation skills at all levels of customer engagement.
• Complete, “big-picture” understanding of the business and technical contexts of key accounts.
• Driven, self-starter who exudes leadership on account set and compels others to get on board.
• Fully adept at consultative effectiveness and establishing trust with internal and external customers.
• Fully 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.
•  8+ years of relevant professional experience