The Role
You will be responsible for winning new logos, maintaining and growing our existing business, and managing strategic relationships at an HQ/affiliate level within the region.
A strong understanding of the life science industry, B2B sales cycles and a passion forsolving business issues with innovative data and technology is ideal.
What You'll Do
- Manage and grow relationships with key stakeholders across Business, IT, and C-level within our customers
- Lead cross functional/regional teams to achieve targets and renewals
- Meet/exceed pipeline generation and revenue targets including annual renewals
- Manage complex sales cycles, utilizing internal and external resources as appropriate
- Act with urgency, integrity, and a focus on the customer
- Protect and expand Veeva's footprint in the region through robust daily account management, new customer acquisition, a strong focus on operational excellence, and a passion for understanding and supporting your customer’s business and IT goals
- Oversee and coach the multi-functional global account team with robust internal governance to drive innovation and enable execution excellence
- Navigate complex sales cycles, articulate contextual value propositions, and negotiate key contracts and annual renewals of licenses
- Manage account administration and actively provide input for accurate forecasting
- Keep current with industry trends and expand knowledge of legacy and novel Veeva offerings
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience selling software (SaaS). Experience selling into Life Sciences is highly recommended but not mandatory
- Proven hunter profile: demonstrated track record of new logo acquisition, outbound prospecting and opening doors in accounts with no prior relationship
- Entrepreneurial mindset: treats the territory as their own business, builds their own territory plan, generates their own pipeline and takes full ownership of results
- A self-starter able to work autonomously with minimal supervision, internally driven, does not wait for leads or instructions
- Has run complex and consultative sales cycles with multiple internal and external stakeholders including Business, IT and Procurement
- Ability to articulate business cases and value propositions to CxO level executives
- Fluent written and verbal communication in German and English is required
- Lives in Switzerland or Germany
Nice to Have
- Strong network across Life Sciences companies in the DACH region
- Understanding and familiarity with selling AI solutions
Interviewing with Veeva
- Follow the application process and submit your resume.
- Within 3 days, you will receive a link to a personality assessment administered by a third party.
- Once you complete the assessment, our team will review your full application package and follow up via email with our decision.
- If moving to the interview stage, the process is as follows:
- A conversation with the hiring manager
- A practical case exercise
- A final conversation with our group's Senior Leader.
- Once all interviews are complete, the manager will be in touch with a final decision.
Perks & Benefits
- Veeva Giving: 1% of your annual salary for donations to charitable causes
- Fitness reimbursement
- Health Insurance
- Pension Contribution