Account Executive, Japan
Description
Working as part of Absolute’s award-winning Sales team, we are looking for a results-driven, self-motivated Account Executive to join our fast-growing business in Japan for our International, Secure Access & Endpoint Business. The Account Executive is a critical member of the Japan Go-to-Market organization and is responsible for growing our enterprise business.
In this role, you would be responsible for primarily driving significant revenue growth from new account acquisitions, as well as driving expansion & cross-sell support to existing customers. The ideal candidate is a highly motivated & self-directed individual that can create & execute on sales strategy for the Japan. This role reports to the Country Manager, Japan.
Absolute's Secure Access technology provides security solutions for millions of devices deployed around the world, including 7 of the 10 largest airlines, 50% of Japan public safety agencies, and a variety of other major organizations ranging from utilities and healthcare to logistics and legal sectors. Customers choose the Absolute platform for its powerful software-defined perimeter (SDP / ZTNA), experience monitoring and mobile-first enterprise VPN functionality. Endpoint solution to empower end users to connect securely and from anywhere, to all the applications they need to collaborate and get their work done, without interruptions and with an optimal network experience. Absolute currently serves approximately 16,000 customers with more than 13 million activated endpoints globally. G2 recognized Absolute as a Leader in the Winter 2022 Endpoint Management and Zero Trust Networking Grid Reports, reflecting our continued customer satisfaction across product lines.
In this role, you would be responsible for primarily driving significant revenue growth from new account acquisitions, as well as driving expansion & cross-sell support to existing customers. The ideal candidate is a highly motivated & self-directed individual that can create & execute on sales strategy for the Japan. This role reports to the Country Manager, Japan.
Absolute's Secure Access technology provides security solutions for millions of devices deployed around the world, including 7 of the 10 largest airlines, 50% of Japan public safety agencies, and a variety of other major organizations ranging from utilities and healthcare to logistics and legal sectors. Customers choose the Absolute platform for its powerful software-defined perimeter (SDP / ZTNA), experience monitoring and mobile-first enterprise VPN functionality. Endpoint solution to empower end users to connect securely and from anywhere, to all the applications they need to collaborate and get their work done, without interruptions and with an optimal network experience. Absolute currently serves approximately 16,000 customers with more than 13 million activated endpoints globally. G2 recognized Absolute as a Leader in the Winter 2022 Endpoint Management and Zero Trust Networking Grid Reports, reflecting our continued customer satisfaction across product lines.
Requirements & Responsibilities:
- Proven track record of sales success within the enterprise software industry
- History of over quota performance and revenue growth
- Customer Engagement: define the customers current IT situation, challenges and needs. Present Secure Network Access & Secure Endpoint product demos to prospects and existing customers as a solution to their needs
- Become a trusted advisor and product expert to all customers regarding endpoint & network security
- Share customer best practices and acquire customer references
- Attend onsite customer meetings and events where ROI is high for sales conversion
- Developing and executing sales strategy, managing a large territory
- Direct high-touch sales experience to enterprise accounts, managing complex, lengthy sales cycles
- Data mine high potential accounts, identify key accounts & contacts to engage
- Follow up on all leads provided through marketing resources in a timely and effective manner. Working with channel partners to create leads and close joint business. Develop & maintain a high lead conversion rate
- Maintain a high daily rate of outbound calling and email campaigns
- CRM Management (Salesforce.com)
- Build and maintain an effective four quarter rolling 3x pipeline - ensuring an accurate forecast with daily updates
- Maintain customer accounts and contact accuracy
- Document pertinent meetings, emails, phone calls and supporting customer data as appointments, activities and/or notes to ensure seamless customer support
- Willingness to travel up to 30%.
- Bilingual: Business level speaking and writing of Japanese and English is mandatory
- Tokyo-based
What You Will Need:
- In order to come up to speed quickly in this position it is important that you have 10+ years of enterprise sales experience with a minimum of 5+ years in the network, security or mobility categories.
- You must be passionate about selling technology solutions and be able to communicate the value proposition to audiences of varying levels of seniority and technical understanding.
- Must be mentally agile, can process and retain complex information with ease and is both articulate & engaging
- Knowledge of Security as a technology or set of technologies
- Selling SaaS platforms, a plus
- Extremely strong ability to build relationships, prospect and qualify new opportunities via Pipeline Growth activities
- Proven experience selling & presenting to executives
- Presales or consulting experience, a plus
- Ability to communicate with people at all levels inside the organization
- Ability to negotiate long-term license agreements directly with customers/through our partners
- Strong proven business acumen
- The ability to over-achieve goals, highly organized with a desire to win, strong drive for results
Why Work For Us:
You’re resilient and passionate about securing the Work from Anywhere era.
So are we.
We’re in search of the best and the brightest – everyone from innovators, sellers and marketers to financers, operators and especially customer relationship managers – we’re looking for top tier talent to help us shape the next decade of security, drive innovation that enables customers with truly disruptive solutions and are dedicated to making a meaningful difference.
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington with international offices in Vancouver - BC, Austin - TX, Boulder - CO, Ankeny – IA, Reading - UK and Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam, Absolute accelerates customers’ shift to work-from-anywhere through the industry’s first self-healing Zero Trust platform, ensuring maximum security and uncompromised productivity. Only Absolute is embedded in more than half a billion devices, offering a permanent digital connection that intelligently and dynamically applies visibility, control and self-healing capabilities to endpoints, applications, and network access to ensure their cyber resilience tailored for distributed workforces.
You’re resilient and passionate about securing the Work from Anywhere era.
So are we.
We’re in search of the best and the brightest – everyone from innovators, sellers and marketers to financers, operators and especially customer relationship managers – we’re looking for top tier talent to help us shape the next decade of security, drive innovation that enables customers with truly disruptive solutions and are dedicated to making a meaningful difference.
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington with international offices in Vancouver - BC, Austin - TX, Boulder - CO, Ankeny – IA, Reading - UK and Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam, Absolute accelerates customers’ shift to work-from-anywhere through the industry’s first self-healing Zero Trust platform, ensuring maximum security and uncompromised productivity. Only Absolute is embedded in more than half a billion devices, offering a permanent digital connection that intelligently and dynamically applies visibility, control and self-healing capabilities to endpoints, applications, and network access to ensure their cyber resilience tailored for distributed workforces.
Our vision is to be the world’s most trusted security company – and to empower end users to connect securely and from anywhere, to all the applications they need to collaborate and get their work done, without interruptions and with an optimal network experience. Absolute currently serves approximately 16,000 customers with more than 13 million activated endpoints globally. G2 recognized Absolute as a Leader in the Winter 2022 Endpoint Management and Zero Trust Networking Grid Reports, reflecting our continued customer satisfaction across product lines. To learn more about Absolute, visit our website at www.absolute.com or visit our YouTube channel
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Absolute provides persistent endpoint security and data risk management solutions for computers, tablets, and smartphones. Our persistence technology is built into over half a billion devices around the world.