Regional Account Executive (Enterprise) (Position located in Cape Town, South Africa)

Please submit your resume in English.

To learn more about our team and office culture in Cape Town, South Africa visit the following links. 
Careers Page: https://www.knowbe4.com/careers/locations/cape-town
Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Location/KnowBe4-Cape-Town-Location-EI_IE969384.0,7_IL.8,17_IC2653748.htm
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The Regional Account Executive (ENT) (International) position is responsible for acquiring new logos and upselling our existing Enterprise-sized customer accounts with the goal of maximizing all revenue opportunities to exceed their monthly sales quota. This can be achieved by creating opportunities through various prospecting methods, following up on inbound leads, reigniting open, outstanding customer opportunities, and motivating our existing customers to purchase additional products, increase subscription levels and/or add on additional seats due to account growth.

Responsibilities:

• Acquire Enterprise-sized accounts within assigned territory to meet and exceed monthly new logo sales quota.
• Promote and sell KnowBe4’s range of products to existing customers to meet and exceed Enterprise monthly cross sale and expansion sales quota.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of Enterprise opportunities by various prospecting methods, following lead cadence best practices and conducting demos of our suite of products.
• Follow up on new and existing customer SDR, marketing and channel leads to generate revenue opportunities and pipeline.
• Articulate the value proposition of KnowBe4’s full suite of products and educate the customer how each product will improve their business’s human firewall.
• Understand an organization’s buying needs, key decision makers, potential roadblocks and next steps to shorten sales cycles and acquire a high volume of new logo and upselling existing customer accounts.
• Act strategically in offering subscription levels, multi-year deals and/or negotiating discounted pricing to increase ARR
• Maintain accurate and thorough records of daily sales statistics via Salesforce.
• Collaborate with the assigned Channel sales representative to seamlessly close new logos through our Partner business channels.
• Collaborate with the assigned Customer Success Managers and Renewal Specialists to understand the account’s organizational structure, gaps in cybersecurity and ultimately increase their commitment and use of the KnowBe4 Product Suite.  
• Support in the renewal process where there is an opportunity to grow the account.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience selling to Enterprise-sized businesses, required
• Bachelor Degree or higher education equivalent, desirable
• Familiarity with standard concepts, practices and procedures within the IT, Security or Cybersecurity industry, desirable
• Experience with Salesforce, a plus
• Experience with Gmail and Google Docs
• Experience with MS Office (Word and Excel)
• Experience with web browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.)
  
• Excellent verbal and written communications
• Stats driven business professional
• Motivated, energetic self-starter
• Strong collaborative and teamwork skills
• Must be able to work with minimum supervision