Senior Services Sales Executive - Financials

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About the Team

The EMEA Services Sales Executive team includes a diverse range of skills and experience from across professional services, functional subject matter expertise and sales fields. The team plays a meaningful role in connecting Workday’s services and sales organisations; ensuring that we are supporting subscription sales by differentiating Workday’s services approach and methodology, as well as ensuring that our customers are set up to be successful in their deployment projects and meet their business objectives. Our aim is to be trusted advisors to our prospects and customers, working to Workday’s core values of Customer Service and Integrity, and protecting Workday’s proven track record of customer happiness. Successful candidates will be passionate about working as part of an account team supporting sales cycles; engaging with customers to develop deployment strategies and plans that meet their requirements; and handling detailed and sophisticated information to prepare estimates, proposals and contracts.

About the Role

Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) Human Capital Management and Financial Management solutions for handling global businesses. As a Workday Services Sales Executive for our Professional Services organisation, you will be responsible for planning, management, and execution of all Professional Services business development activities in your area. You will be a key team member of the Workday Pre-sales Services team, working alongside Workday Account Executives, driving Workday Subscription sales across Workday’s market segments.

You’ll use your experience with consulting sales and project delivery to help prospects put together a plan for a successful project, including resources, timeline, and costs. You’ll employ effective selling strategies to successfully position Workday’s SaaS Solutions and Platform technologies as the efficient, modern alternative, and you will be a specialist in Workday’s innovative deployment methodology. You will work closely with Workday Service Partners to help them plan successful projects and grow their business. If you have a stellar consulting delivery and sales track record, are a self-starter, and love working in a multifaceted environment, then Workday EMEA Services Sales Executive team is the place for you.

What you’ll do:

• Understand the competitive landscape and prospect needs so you can effectively position the value of Workday’s innovative deployment methodology and Professional Services.
• Work with Account Executive and Customer Success Managers to resolve Services Strategy for customer accounts.
• Present Workday Customer Services overview and conduct services discovery sessions.
• Build and validate Professional Services Proposals and high-level Project Plans.
• Nurture mutually helpful relationships with Workday Service Partners.
• Assess project team training needs for prospects and customers.
• Maintain accurate and timely prospect, pipeline, and service forecast data.
• Handle, negotiate, and close Professional Services Agreements, Statements of Work and other contractual documentation
• Provide support for services activities and events.

About You:

• Experience leading Financial or ERP implementation projects – Financial systems, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Procurement, or comparable
• Experience in Professional Services sales, preferably in ERP
• Consistent record in handling sophisticated services sales cycles from start to finish with a track record of successful service revenue and profitability attainment preferred.
• Understand and can optimally explain the benefits of cloud architecture.
• Proven understanding of vendors, products, and services in the Financials Enterprise Application space.
• Phenomenal presentation skills while participating in a fast-paced, sophisticated product and services sales cycle.
• Strong attention to detail and experience with commercial processes and tools, including RFP responses, project calculation and/or estimation tools, and scope description and/or contract documentation
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Ability to travel up to 35%
• Proficiency in Dutch and English is critical. Proficiency in French or Flemish is a plus

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.