Account Executive, Strategic - Asia (12 month FTC)
smartsheet · Sydney, AU ·
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- Sales
- Experience
- 20+ years
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day.
Smartsheet is seeking an experienced enterprise account executive to join our enterprise team, driving revenue from Asia’s largest organisations. The ideal candidate will have a history of driving complex enterprise sales cycles, multi threading and senior stakeholder engagement. This is Smartsheet’s most senior frontline sales role in the Asia region and a history of performing with large enterprise accounts is a must.
This position is a 12 month fixed term contract, based in Sydney and reports to the Director for Asia Sales. This role has a team go to market approach and has a designated enterprise sales rep driving account activity plus designated solution engineer and customer success manager assisting with account engagement and solution designs.
You Will:
- Strategically engage senior customer stakeholders with a current Smartsheet footprint and drive additional revenue through new solution upsells.
- Land and expand with new Logos for Smartsheet by selling our full suite of products and services
- Grow account footprint and revenue to an ultimate goal of a full enterprise wide contract agreement.
- Pipeline generation and end-to-end sales cycle management with companies above 5000 employee size using the MEDDICC sales framework.
- Utilise multithreading and consistent lead outreach, as appropriate, within both new logos and existing customers to drive business growth
- Conduct consultative and cross-functional discovery calls and act as a Consultant to the Customer to identify their needs and align customer challenges to impact-driven Smartsheet solutions
- Understand & respond to Customer requirements within the highly competitive sales market, including response to RFPs, defining collaboration goals, success criteria and program strategy to achieve results
- Act as a subject matter expert in the features, benefits and application of Smartsheet’s products and solutions; educating the customer in how we partner with them to evaluate our software effectively
- Conduct product demonstrations and partner with cross functional teams, including Sales Engineers, Customer Success and internal Consulting, to support complex sales cycles.
- Qualify and prioritise strategic business (80%) while closing and upleveling transactional business (20%) to ensure a healthy pipeline
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in Salesforce leveraging MEDDICC qualification guidelines
- Develop detailed strategic account plans aimed at growing Smartsheet footprint across enterprise business units.
- Utilise channel partner network where appropriate to gain customer traction
- Pipeline manage and forecast to exceed quarterly quota’s
You Have:
- Proven sales track record in complex enterprise SaaS environment
- Proven ability to prospect and manage a designated territory to maximise revenue growth
- Experience in strategic account relationship management
- Executive mindset & ability to interact well with senior level corporate management
- Understanding of Solution/Consultative Selling with ability to execute each stage in the sales cycle to advance the sale
- A value and ROI driven sales process focused on customer outcomes is crucial to align with the Smartsheet sales motion
- Promotes the importance of collaboration within and across our business to create, capture, share and maximise value. Interacts effectively with others; is considerate and approachable; values, respects, and welcomes differences and others’ perspectives; is mindful of own authority and personal impact.
- Establishes clear goals and priorities; translates strategy into action plans; holds self accountable for performance goals; does what is needed to ensure they consistently deliver an excellent customer experience
- Passion for working with emerging technologies and an ability to understand new technical concepts
- Ability to continuously improve and adopt best practices while holding self accountable in a hybrid workplace
Get to Know Us:
At Smartsheet, your ideas are heard, your potential is supported, and your contributions have real impact. You’ll have the freedom to explore, push boundaries, and grow beyond your role. We welcome diverse perspectives and nontraditional paths—because we know that impact comes from individuals who care deeply and challenge thoughtfully. When you’re doing work that stretches you, excites you, and connects you to something bigger, that’s magic at work. Let’s build what’s next, together.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment with the best employees. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants in accordance with applicable laws in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Costa Rica, Japan, Bulgaria, India, and Singapore. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
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