Build and grow a strategic enterprise territory by guiding complex SaaS sales cycles, advising prospective clients on data challenges, aligning stakeholders, and consistently achieving revenue goals.
Account Executive - CPG
📜 Description
- Identify and develop new opportunities in a defined territory, targeting enterprise accounts and securing new customers.
- Build relationships with C-level executives, operational leaders, and other decision-makers.
- Understand customer needs and demonstrate how solutions address strategic and operational challenges.
- Deliver tailored pitches and demos, independently or with Value Engineers, to show measurable impact.
- Collaborate with consulting firms, SaaS providers, industry partners, and cross-functional teams to advance opportunities.
🛠️ Requirements
- Proven SaaS Sales Experience: A strong track record of success in enterprise SaaS sales, with a focus on securing new business and consistently achieving revenue targets.
- Expertise in Complex Sales: Experience managing long, multi-stakeholder sales cycles within large enterprise accounts.
- Track record of selling enterprise-level software applications to C-level stakeholders.
- Strong business acumen with a solid understanding of business processes and KPIs (e.g. in CPG)
- Strong Communication Skills: Exceptional presentation and storytelling abilities to confidently influence senior stakeholders and decision-makers.
- Collaborative Mindset: A team-oriented approach, leveraging internal and external resources to achieve shared goals.
- Own the full sales cycle, from prospecting and qualification through closing six-figure deals.
✨ Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants.
- Paid parental leave: 24 weeks for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers.
- Unlimited PTO in applicable regions and generous PTO globally.
- Flexible hybrid work model.
- Learning framework
- Access to a dedicated learning platform
- Subsidized Wellhub memberships and mental health counseling.
- Paid time off for annual Impact Days volunteering.
Full job description
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operational clarity. World's leading companies trust Celonis and its global ecosystem of partners to make their AI agents, people, systems, and processes work together, achieving transformational outcomes. We believe there's a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by giving AI the context to understand how every business process really works. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet.
The Team:
The Account Executive, a pivotal member of our enterprise sales team, is dedicated to driving growth by acquiring new clients across the region. This role is solely focused on expanding our footprint in the CPG space. Leveraging top-tier products and effective sales strategies, the Account Executive collaborates closely with Value Engineers, Business Development Representatives, and other cross-functional teams to identify and capture high-value new business opportunities.
The Role:
The primary objective is to build and expand market presence by capitalizing on untapped opportunities in the region. As an Account Executive specializing in new business sales, this role is integral to our strategy for expanding market share through targeted client acquisitions. Key responsibilities include
The work you’ll do:
- Drive New Business: Identify and develop new opportunities within a defined territory, targeting enterprise accounts to secure new logos.
- Own the Sales Cycle: Manage the entire sales process—from prospecting and qualification to closing six-figure deals
- Engage Strategic Stakeholders: Build relationships across multiple lines of business, engaging with C-level executives, operational leaders, and key decision-makers.
- Deliver Tailored Solutions: Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and demonstrate how Celonis’ solutions can solve their strategic and operational challenges.
- Showcase Value: Present use-case-specific pitches and demos, independently or in collaboration with Value Engineers, to highlight the measurable impact of Celonis solutions.
- Collaborate with Partners: Work closely with Big 4 consulting firms, SaaS providers, and industry partners to enhance the value proposition for your prospects.
- Leverage Team Support: Partner with your virtual team, including business development representatives, pre- sales, customer success, marketing managers, and partner managers, to drive success.
- This role will be expected to spend the majority of their time in the field meeting with clients
The qualifications you need:
- Proven SaaS Sales Experience: A strong track record of success in enterprise SaaS sales, with a focus on securing new business and consistently achieving revenue targets.
- Expertise in Complex Sales: Experience managing long, multi-stakeholder sales cycles within large enterprise accounts.
- Track record of selling enterprise-level software applications to C-level stakeholders.
- Strong business acumen with a solid understanding of business processes and KPIs (e.g. in CPG)
- Strong Communication Skills: Exceptional presentation and storytelling abilities to confidently influence senior stakeholders and decision-makers.
- Collaborative Mindset: A team-oriented approach, leveraging internal and external resources to achieve shared goals.
Visa sponsorship is not offered for this role.
What Celonis can offer you:
- Pioneer Innovation: Work with the global leader in Process Mining and the Process Intelligence Graph to shape the future of AI-driven business operations.
- Ownership from Day 1: Every full-time "Celonaut" is an owner, receiving Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants.
- Unrivaled Family Support: Benefit from our inclusive parental leave policy—24 weeks of fully paid leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers, available from your first day of employment.
- Work-Life Integration: Enjoy Unlimited PTO (in applicable regions) and generous PTO globally, as well as a flexible hybrid work model that balances remote focus with vibrant office collaboration.
- Continuous Growth: Elevate your skills through our 70-20-10 learning framework, mentorship programs, and access to a dedicated learning platform.
- Holistic Well-being: Prioritize your health with subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and dedicated "Wellness Weeks" that prioritize work/life balance.
- Drive Sustainability: Participate in annual Impact Days, where you receive paid time off to volunteer for community and environmental causes with your local office, or virtually.
- Global Inclusion & Belonging: Find community through our Inclusion Think Tank and participate in our annual Inclusion Days, ensuring every voice is heard and valued.
- Value-Driven Impact: Join a mission-led organization where our core values—Live for Customer Value, The Best Team Wins, We Own It, and Earth Is Our Future—drive every decision.
About Us:
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI, empowering organizations to analyze, design, and operate AI-driven processes. The Celonis Platform is powered by the Celonis Context Model, which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence to create a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can understand — turning AI’s operational blind spots into operational clarity. Industry-leading companies around the world trust Celonis and its global ecosystem of partners to make their AI agents, people, systems, and processes work together, achieving transformational outcomes. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide.
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