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Principal Client Executive

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As a Principal Client Executive, you'll manage key enterprise accounts, drive contract growth, and build relationships with C-level executives while achieving revenue quotas.
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Principal Client Executive, Mid-Size Enterprise

As an experienced sales professional, you will address your clients’ most critical priorities. You will identify opportunities for account retention and growth through contract expansion, introducing new services and products. This is an inside sales role, selling directly to Mid-Size Enterprise clients; organizations with $100-500M+ in annual revenue, which includes 77% of the Global F500.

Responsibilities

  • Quota of approximately $900-1.3M in contract value across 7-10 mid-size enterprise accounts.
  • Build trust-based, value-added relationships with C-level executives and their teams, primarily the CEO and CMO/CPO office.
  • Drive account retention and growth by impacting their most critical priorities and demonstrate Gartner’s value.
  • Drive new business with new logos, through networking, events, and your own prospecting.
  • Collaborate across teams, regions, and departments, sharing best practice, to ensure a best-in-class approach to strategic initiatives and growth plans

Qualifications 

  • 7+ years of relevant sales experience, of which at least 2 years in a tech/IT environment. Direct sales experience within a vendor, service provider, telecommunications company, consulting, or a similar environment is highly relevant for this role.
  • Experience selling to senior leaders, preferably the CEO, CMO or Product Manager.
  • A track record of consistent (over)achievement on your goals and targets.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree is desirable.
  • Experience using Challenger Sales or a similar sales method is a plus.

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Who are we? 

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work? 

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

What do we offer? 

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers. 

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 81,000 USD - 102,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.


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