Account Executive - Cyber

Directors
  • Sydney
  • Permanent
  • Sales
  • PDd30-1571073
  • 09/01/2025
Account Executive - Cyber
Sydney

This disruptive SaaS company has built a highly intelligent, AI-powered platform that is revolutionizing the way organizations mature their cyber security capabilities.
 
Amidst a period of sustained success, they now have a need for a growth-oriented Account Executive to focus on driving revenue by acquiring new customers and meeting sales targets.
 
What You Will Do
This AE will lead efforts to sell to mid-market and enterprise customers via resellers & system integrators in collaboration with the Channel management team.
 
Responsibilities include:

  • Meet or exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue targets through proactive pipeline management and closing deals.
  • Strategically develop a territory plan for a targeted list of accounts or personas in HubSpot leveraging best-in-class sales technology for outbound lead generation.
  • Generating new business pipelines through inbound lead follow-up and cold prospecting through partner collaborations, social communication, LinkedIn lead generation campaigns, email, and phone calls.
  • Identify and engage with potential customers through the full lifecycle of an opportunity including qualification/ discovery, initial demo, deep dive demos (in partnership with a Pre-Sales Consultant), building relationships within an organisation, proposal, negotiation and close.
  • Work with the Channel team to identify and collaborate with the right partners to manage the deal process
  • Work closely with marketing, customer success, and the product engineering teams to improve customer acquisition and smooth onboarding.
  • Manage your pipeline in HubSpot with accurate updates and provide timely and accurate monthly and quarterly forecasts.
  • Other KPIs tracked for this role include close:win ratio, deal velocity, pipeline hygiene, and other standard sales metrics.
Requirements include:
  • 3+ years of SaaS new business sales experience, preferably selling to “C” level Cyber decision makers, such as the CIO, CISO, or Head of Information Security
  • Previous experience working for a Security SaaS vendor.
  • Familiarity working with channel partners to resell software
  • Experience with a recognized sales methodology such as SPICED, MEDDPIC, Challenger etc.
  • Reputation for success in consultative sales environments and putting the customer first
  • Successful track record as an individual contributor who can “walk the walk” not just “talk the talk”
  • Strong technical aptitude & computer skills – including HubSpot, Lemlist, LinkedIn, Word, Excel & PowerPoint, amongst others.
  • Experienced with independently running qualification calls and delivering your own initial demos
  • Strong negotiation skills to work with a customer from the initial call to close
  • Strong work ethic, can-do attitude and ability to work cross-functionally within the organization.
  • Good time management skills to be focused and effective in a home-based environment
Certus Recruitment Australia is a specialist provider of sales, marketing, and IT recruitment services to the business community. Part of the Certus Recruitment Group, we operate throughout Australia, the UK, Europe, and North America. 
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