Major Account Executive

**About ForgeRock**: In today's highly connected digital world, understanding, managing and securing the identity of individuals and things is essential to safety and success of both businesses and their customers. Billions of people connect from anywhere, use a wide variety of devices and expect a seamless yet secure experience. The ForgeRock mission is to provide the most simple and comprehensive Identity and Access Management Platform to help our customers deepen their relationships with their consumers and improve the productivity and connectivity of their employees and partners. Our identity solution enables great digital experiences and is embedded with a rich set of security, privacy and consent features. We deliver our platform through both cloud services and on-premises software. Our customers are some of the biggest companies, organizations, and even countries in the world. On any given day, it's likely that the ForgeRock Identity Platform helped keep your data safe, gave you access to stuff, and supported trusted relationships between you, companies and the devices you were using. * The Role: * Reporting to the local Regional Vice President, this is a strategic sales role as we accelerate our growth at this crucial stage in our company's development. You will be tasked with driving sales within your sector, working within a quarterly cycle. ForgeRock's growth now requires repeatable success. You will have evidence of solution selling and success, with experience in building extraordinary customer relationships and role modelling your behaviours within a team. The ability to leverage the partner community, architect solutions and reach into a well-established network is required elements for future success. In order to acquire, retain and extend customer relationships, you will be a high performer who uses data, previous experience and current feedback to finesse your approach. Focused on the work needed to be done, and culturally conscious of the way to do the work, you will be constantly aware of the true measurements of success. Your mind set should be passionate, authentic and hungry, with a natural ability to find the best opportunities and to drive them to successful conclusions. **Responsibilities**: **Business Management**: - Position ForgeRock as the company of choice for Identity & Access Management within large Enterprise accounts in Suisse Romande - Creates, implements, measures and reviews an individual plan that drives achievement of performance goals aligned to the Regional sales strategy - Position and articulate ForgeRock's value proposition to strategic sector customers, with a view to drive business value to these customers and therefore maximising the business opportunity for ForgeRock - Be "the" visible contact point for the relevant customers in Suisse Romande, within ForgeRock - Ability to work remotely of the main ForgeRock Hubs and to engage the relevant support functions/management for customer interactions - Negotiate and close Strategic and complex enterprise contracts with the support of global partners - Develops accounts utilising a value selling approach and account planning - Reports on sales activity and forecasts to senior management - Prepares indicative subscription pricing and customer offers, including reviewing broader opportunities such as training and professional services modules, and leads Request for Proposal responses - Identifies and pursues opportunities to expand business activities within areas of responsibility - Plans and controls the expense associated with area of responsibility even if not responsible for overall cost centre - Establishes working relationships with external parties which support the achievement of business goals - Complies with all relevant systems and procedures - Provides customer feedback to marketing, customer success, product management and engineering teams - Coaches/mentors new team members as requested by the RVP **Resource Management**: - Accurately forecasts and achieves sales targets - Identifies and allocates appropriate resources to opportunities - Utilizes partner network pro-actively - Works collaboratively to acquire additional/specialist resources as required, including legal, finance and marketing **Customer Management**: - Has established sector-related decision maker contacts in large accounts - Has a clear understanding related to the specific requirements how to use digital identities in specific markets and understands how to orchestrate success within this framework - Experience with different Enterprise segments is a plus, as the person might cover some private customers across in Suisse Romande - Builds relationships with customers (internal or external) as necessary - previous executive engagement and network is essential to the success of this role **Required Skills & Qualifications**: - Proven track record dealing with the strategic buyers in large Enterprise accounts across in Suisse Roma