Mid-Market Protect Account Executive - German Speaker

Company Description

It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today - ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

Job Description

ServiceNow is the fastest growing enterprise cloud software company in the world, and we believe it's the great people we hire who will keep us there. We hire carefully, we hire the best, we celebrate our people. Come join our Sales A-team.

ServiceNow is currently seeking a highly driven Mid market protect account executive to join our expanding Inside Sales team. The Sr. Mid market protect account executive will be responsible for strategically prospecting into new accounts, expanding usage within existing customer base, and ensuring these customers continue to get value from the NOW Platform. The candidate will be an individual with a demonstrable track record in new business pipeline generation ideally over the telephone within an Enterprise capacity. They will collaborate with their team of Sales Specialists, Solution Consultants, Renewal Sales and more to exceed quota and build the future of ServiceNow sales talent.

What you get to do in this role:

• Meet or exceed Monthly, Quarterly and Annual sales objectives.

• Manage sales opportunities and business relationships over the telephone with influential contacts within Small, Mid-Market, and Commercial Accounts.

• Focus on understanding an organization's business drivers, challenges, pain points and how ServiceNow solutions map to these.

• Strategically prospect within key verticals to develop new opportunities and pipeline

• Follow the Value Selling sales process to win new business, expand withing existing accounts and ensure contract renewals

• Collaborate with an extended team and coordinate resources necessary to further sales cycle such as Solution Consultants, Customer Service, Partners etc.

• Provide timely and accurate information to management such as forecasting, territory plans, strategic account plans etc.

• Working towards daily, monthly & quarterly KPI metrics such as new prospect meetings, pipeline generation, ACV bookings and Renewal Rates

• Mentor team members and work on collaborative projects to help bring value to the team

• Occasional travel for training and/or meetings may be required.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.

• A demonstrable track record of success within a telesales, lead follow-up, cold calling or new business sales capacity

• 1-3+ years of full sales cycle experience gained within software or solution sales organization

• Previous experience leading re-sell sales cycles with Partners

• Experience in selling enterprise class solutions utilizing telephone and video conference technology

• A thorough understanding of the sales process and the ability to navigate and progress complex sales cycles

• Sales force automation, enterprise resource planning or other IT infrastructure management (monitoring and discovery) technologies a definite plus.

• Presentation skills via web based tools will be a distinct advantage

• Excellent listening, verbal and written skills

• Excellent relationship building skills - Ability to build meaningful business relationships with ServiceNow customers, prospects and internal colleagues

• Persistent and dependable, especially with attendance, deliverables and deadlines
• Fluency in German is required for this role.

Additional Information

Work Personas

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

Accommodations

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Export Control Regulations

For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.

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