Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Dublin, Ireland; Berlin, Germany; Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Hamburg, Germany; Munich, Germany.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software or cloud space.
- Experience in selling Business Intelligence (BI) and Software as a Service (SaaS) technologies.
- Ability to communicate in German and English fluently in order to communicate with our customers and internal stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience selling Business intelligence tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Databricks, Snowflake, Qlik.
- Industry experience in retail or financial services.
- Experience prioritizing, planning, and organizing sales activity within complex business cycles, including qualifying accounts and leveraging partner ecosystems.
- Experience supporting long-term executive relationships, and developing territories/accounts from scratch, while ensuring customer success, adoption and expansion.
- Background of selling usage-based SaaS solutions focusing on Data Analytics, Big Data, AI/ML.
About the Job
The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.
As a Business Intelligence (BI) Sales Specialist, you will help us grow our BI business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing customers. In this role, you will work with customers to deliver true business value, demonstrate product functionality, and provide a comprehensive overview of key business use cases. You will lead day-to-day relationships with cross-functional team members (e.g., Data Analytics Sales Specialists, Field Sales, Customer Engineering) and external customers, leading with empathy, while identifying innovative ways to multiply your impact and the impact of the team as a whole to drive overall value for Google Cloud.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Build relationships with customers as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, managing complex business cycles, identifying solution use cases, and influencing long-term strategic direction of accounts.
- Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed strategic business and growth goals while forecasting and reporting your territory’s business.
- Work with Google accounts and cross-functional teams (e.g., Customer Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Channels) to develop go-to-market strategies, drive pipeline and business growth, close agreements, understand the customer, and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.
- Develop and execute strategic account plans, including a broader enterprise plan across key industries; focus on building accounts.
- Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understanding each customer’s technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, competitors, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.