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Your Role and Responsibilities As a member of the Confluent Enterprise Account Executive Sales Team, an IBM Company, the Enterprise Account Executive is responsible for selling Confluent solutions to our Enterprise Market segment. We expect you to use your prospecting, sales, negotiation, and leadership skills to effectively sell Confluent offerings to leading companies to meet and exceed your quarterly sales target. You must possess a "consumption/growth" mentality with a proven track record of success within a value-driven sales model.

What You Will Do:

- Responsible for driving revenue growth in our large, complex, and highly visible accounts.
- Proactively prospect, identify, qualify, develop, and close a sales pipeline while continuing to grow consumption in current customer accounts.
- Leading, driving, and executing a strategic complex sales cycle with responsibility for demonstrating the value of Confluent at C-Level.
- Become an in-depth expert/SME of Confluent offerings, product suites, and competitive landscape.
- Develop a deep understanding of your customers, their strategies, and business goals to become a trusted advisor.
- Work closely with our partner ecosystem teams to sell to or through the ecosystem.
- Align closely with our Solutions Engineering team on technical wins, Professional Services to deliver world-class customer experience, and Customer Success Management to identify and close expansion opportunities and renewals.

Required Education Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

- 5 years of experience in quota-carrying sales roles in a competitive market with a focus on growing consumption within accounts/territory.
- Prior experience in Big Data, Consumption, Cloud, SaaS, Open Source, or Enterprise IT Solutions.
- Previous sales methodology training (i.e. MEDDPICC, Challenger, etc.).
- Prior experience in leading and executing a highly complex sales strategy to increase and drive revenue growth.
- Consistent track record of success and history of overachieving and hitting quota attainment.
- Ability to articulate, educate, and sell the business value to businesses of all sizes.
- Experience developing and improving processes and managing change within an organization.




- Exceptional skills in relationship-building, customer relations, and negotiation skills.

Preferred Technical and Qualified Experience

- Acquisition or Integration Knowledge: Experience with acquisition or integration agreements, including understanding of associated incentive plans and regulatory requirements, is beneficial for success in this role.
- Complex Incentive Plan Management: Experience managing and coordinating participation in complex incentive plans, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and organizational policies, is a plus.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience working with various stakeholders to drive program execution and resolve issues in a fast-paced environment is desirable.

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These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients' growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities.

Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

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Other Relevant Job Details

- Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
- This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.
- This is a sales position which is currently eligible for participation in an IBM sales incentive plan. The IBM Reference Salary range is used to calculate your benefit entitlements and is your compensation when you are not actively participating in a sales incentive plan.

Your total annual cash compensation opportunity in this position will be comprised of an adjusted reduced base salary and a targeted incentive opportunity under an IBM sales incentive plan. Your ultimate Reference Salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and sales experience for this position. Your actual compensation in this position may vary depending on your incentive plan, quota, and performance in this position.

Locations Markham, Toronto, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

📌 Enterprise Account Executive - Confluent (Canada)
🏢 IBM
📍 Canada