Solution Sales Overlay Specialist, Level 3
Location
Texas
Posted
9 hours ago
Salary
Not specified
5 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Prospect, advance, and close new EA and expansion EA business by collaborating with the Account team and key BU stakeholders
• Own the end-to-end sales cycle of an assigned pipeline of EAs coming up for a Year 3 renegotiation
• Lead On-site/Virtual customer meetings to build credibility, and guide deep technical and business discovery
• Conduct data analysis to understand customer usage trends to quantify customer value derived from the EA
• Create custom proposals outlining entitlements to best fit customer needs. Work with customer management to build and/or validate financial models supporting the value of the proposed investment
• Marshal internal resources of Legal, Contracts and Support to provide unified NI team and customer facing message
• Work with customer Legal, Procurement, Engineering Management, & IT/IS to navigate the agreement sales/buying process
• Act as the primary deal negotiator, value extractor, and licensing subject matter expert on behalf of NI
Job Requirements
- 5-7+ years of sales experience or equivalent software/services experience
- A demonstrated track record of achieving revenue objectives
- Strong time management and long-term initiative focus
- Experience in sales negotiations involving business terms and software licensing terms
- Comfort with XL data analysis and willingness to dive deep into data from disparate sources
- Expertise in selling business value to key decision makers and managers
- Ability to work under pressure/conflict from tenured counter negotiators
- Ability to formulate and execute creative strategies to win complex opportunities
- Experience leading and coaching through influence and marshaling cross-functional resources
- (Preferred) Formal negotiations training and/or thick skin
- (Preferred) Understanding of core software licensing concepts such as activation, term vs perpetual licensing, locked vs floating, and license management technologies
- (Preferred) Understanding of NI’s test software and test operations software portfolio
Benefits
- a variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k)
- tuition reimbursement
- employee resource groups
- recognition
- flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave