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Sales Executive, Strategic Accounts

US-Virginia-Tysons Corner
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Cvent is a leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,700 employees and nearly 21,000 customers worldwide. Founded in 1999, the company delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business.

We have multiple openings for senior sales professionals whose main responsibilities will be managing the corporate Director and VP-level relationships with our hotel chain and management company partners, and identifying business development opportunities with these partners. You will carry a new-booked business and renewal quota. This will be required demonstrating solution-selling and total account management skills, while effectively manage your Sales Associate. The goal: to grow overall partnerships and increase Cvent's market share of clients' organizational spend.

The Hospitality Cloud provides hotels with a targeted advertising platform designed to reach event planners as they research destinations, find venues, and source groups and meetings business.  As one of Cvent’s largest and fastest-growing divisions, we are looking for experienced, collaborative and creative sellers to help expand our value to the hospitality industry to reach beyond marketing into analytics, productivity tools, mobile technology and more.  

This position has opportunity to travel to Cvent’s international offices to provide training and mentoring to our global Sales team.


What You Will Be Doing

  • Develop current relationships and identify new contacts in an effort to meet and exceed individual and department revenue expectations
  • Put together and actively pursue list of targeted Key Accounts, including new partners, and create individual plans of action to penetrate these accounts
  • Travel up to 30% to represent Cvent at major tradeshows and hotel sales conferences, host product seminars or attend client meetings
  • Effectively and accurately manage personal revenue pipeline to maximize all new business opportunities
  • Exceed established new business revenue and renewal targets for advertising-based and software sales by closing new business and managing current accounts
  • Analyze performance data and provide insights and recommendations to key stakeholders based on findings
  • Navigate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders and initiatives within Key Accounts
  • Work with property-level sales teams as well as other departments to ensure customer satisfaction, share feedback, and customize collateral and sales positioning
  • Manage and mentor a Sales Associate that will support you in accomplishing the above activities
  • Perform other duties as assigned

What You Need for this Position

  • Bachelor’s degree, ideally with strong academic credentials
  • 4+ years of experience selling to and/or managing hotel accounts at the corporate-level
  • Familiarity with a high outbound call volume and high talk time sales environment
  • Infectious passion about the benefits of technology and digital marketing
  • Strong analytical skills, experience with data analysis and proficiency in Microsoft excel
  • Effective at integrating knowledge from prospecting, consultative selling, product demonstrations, negotiating contracts, operation/process flow, and product function 
  • Strong sense of initiative and personal leadership demonstrating the ability to function independently while contributing to team initiatives

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