Senior Principal Account Executive

Job Overview

Job Overview At iCIMS, we are helping our clients to build their winning workforce. Our Account Executive Team has a key role in helping prospects unlock their full potential in their efforts to attract, engage, hire, and advance top talent. In this role, you will be provided with the industry’s leading tools and training to help you develop and execute value based sales plans for enterprise, new logo accounts in your assigned territory.

Equipped with your knowledge of the iCIMS Talent Cloud, prospect research, customer success stories, and a pipeline of qualified leads, you’ll have the support you need to achieve sales quotas. Advancement opportunities are numerous and management roles as we grow globally! In this role, you will call on accounts with 2,500+ employees throughout the EMEA territory. This is a hybrid position (London/Remote) that may require travel up to 25%.

ICIMS is a leading enterprise hiring platform that combines the scale and reliability of enterprise software with the transformative power of AI. Thousands of organizations across more than 200 countries and territories trust ICIMS to find and hire the people who shape their future and drive their business forward. Powered by insights from billions of hiring interactions, continuous AI innovation, and a highly extensible platform, ICIMS helps organizations turn talent acquisition into a competitive advantage.

For more than 25 years, ICIMS has delivered end-to-end hiring solutions that improve recruiting efficiency, reduce costs and create exceptional candidate experiences. ICIMS helps solve one of the biggest challenges businesses face today: building a workforce that can adapt, scale, and perform in an increasingly competitive and unpredictable talent market. We uniquely do that by combining enterprise-grade hiring technology, AI-powered insights and automation, and connected talent experiences to help organizations improve hiring outcomes while driving measurable impact.

• Leverage company training opportunities to build expertise in the iCIMS Talent Cloud offerings, the talent acquisition landscape, and value selling.
• Research target Enterprise accounts (2,500+ employees) to identify key decision makers, understand business challenges, and build persona based value propositions.
• Builds sales funnels (3X pipeline) through individual prospecting efforts including but not limited to client referrals, regional networking, webinars and cold calling.
• Partner collaboratively with the sales development and presales teams to turn marketing qualified leads into sales qualified leads and develop/implement sales plans.
• Leverage the CRM to support the sales process and ensure pipeline accuracy.
• Through a consultative approach, uncover prospect business issues and craft value based proposals for the full suite of iCIMS portfolio solutions.
• Own the entire sales process, including RFP/RFI and final contract, and coordinate efforts with marketing, presales, sales management, accounting, services, Info Sec, legal and technical groups.
• Consistently achieve sales quotas for new logo accounts.

• 10+ years of experience in software sales.
• 7+ years of experience targeting new logo (large) enterprise accounts with complex deals.
• Proven success in consistently achieving B2B sales quotas with deals that are more advanced in scope and size, including global organizatons.
• Demonstrated ability to build effective, value based sales plans with adequate pipeline coverage to ensure quota achievement.
• A passion for helping potential customers solve business issues with advanced technology solutions.
• Ability to effectively uncover and engage various buyer personas to build the right relationships and close new…