Commercial Account Executive - Mid Market

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Sales
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The Experience
Salesforce is seeking elite sales talent to join our high-performing Commercial Sales team. This is an opportunity for accomplished Account Executives who thrive in complex environments, operate with a "CEO of your territory" mindset, and want to partner with customers on meaningful, long-term business transformation.
As a Commercial Account Executive at Salesforce, you will own, progress, and close opportunities across the full Salesforce Customer 360 platform. You will work across a broad and diverse customer base, engaging organisations of varying size, maturity, and complexity across multiple industries.
You will work with customers' complex business challenges, navigating multi-product environments where solutions must be tailored, integrated, and aligned to broader organisational strategy. Success in this role requires comfort selling sophisticated, interconnected products and the ability to continuously learn and articulate the value of evolving technology across different industry contexts.
As a trusted advisor, you will build relationships across the C-suite, influence senior stakeholders, and lead complex, multi-threaded sales cycles from first conversation through to contract signature. You will be accountable for generating and converting high-quality pipeline, while partnering closely with other Salesforce teams to drive customer success and long-term growth across your portfolio.
Mid-Market
You will focus on VIC's scale-up ecosystem, engaging high-growth organisations across a wide range of industries, navigating rapid change, increasing complexity, and expanding technology stacks. You will lead high-velocity, multi-stakeholder deals that often span multiple products and functions, helping customers scale sustainably.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
For our Account Executives, no day is the same. You will sell our Salesforce Customer 360 platform into a variety of our mid - market commercial accounts in Australia. We will build trusted relationships with existing accounts to seek out and identify new opportunities. We will land new logos, driving Salesforce growth & further advancing our industry leadership as the #1 CRM provider. You will be running complex deals end-to-end, forecasting, prospecting, building strategy, attending roundtables & events, and taking point on urgent issues.
You will use your new business development and relationship building skills to develop and progress opportunities
You are the CEO of your territory and book of business. You have autonomy on how you run your day.
Measured on results, not time at desk or office.
Advise customers on the Salesforce Platform and promoted solutions to help them achieve their business goals
Work with the supporting team and engage appropriate resources to lead the end to end sales process
Use your solution selling expertise to uncover customer challenges and to increase revenue by using Salesforce technology to solve customer problems
Regular customer cadence to manage and build high value, long-lasting relationships
Territory/Vertical identification and research to formalise a go-to-market strategy and build qualified target accounts.
Maintaining a long term perspective to maximise overall revenue generation while being able to generate short term results.
You're Our Person If...
An experienced Account Executive with minimum 5+ years of quota-carrying sales experience
Demonstrated experience selling, or working with, complex, multi-product or platform-based solutions
A genuine passion for software, technology, and continuous learning
Proven success achieving and exceeding sales targets
Comfortable engaging C-level stakeholders, or able to demonstrate the gravitas and credibility to influence at this level
Curious, commercially minded, and motivated to master new products, industries, and customer contexts
Self-driven, resilient, and able to thrive in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment
High EQ, with the ability to navigate diverse stakeholders and complex internal and external relationships
A strategic thinker who can craft a point of view, hold an informed opinion, and act as a trusted advisor to customers
Growth-minded, self-aware, and intentional about your career trajectory
Expertise in solution-selling methodologies (e.g., MEDDICC, Challenger, Command of the Message).
Even Better If...
Deep experience with CRM technology and a strong network of customer references
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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