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Bertelsmann

Global media, services, and education conglomerate

Enterprise Account Executive

Account ExecutivePosted on Nov 11
Full-timeMorrisville, NC, USA$180k - $315k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • Seven or more years of progressive B2B consultative sales experience, including demonstrated success selling complex SaaS, technology, or services solutions to large healthcare organizations.
  • A proven record of achieving or exceeding quota through net-new enterprise customer acquisition.
  • Experience managing long, complex sales cycles involving senior executives, multiple business units, procurement, legal, finance, IT, security, and other stakeholders.
  • Experience developing account strategies, executive business cases, proposals, mutual action plans, competitive strategies, and commercial negotiations.
  • Strong command of Salesforce and modern sales-enablement, revenue-intelligence, prospecting, and virtual-presentation tools.
  • Knowledge of enterprise healthcare organizations, buyer priorities, and decision-making processes across multiple care settings.
  • Ability to develop and execute practical account growth plans, identify whitespace, and connect customer needs to measurable business value.
  • Skill in relationship development, consultative selling, proposal and business-case development, commercial negotiation, forecasting, customer relationship management discipline, and portfolio prioritization.
  • Ability to coordinate cross-functional resources around a unified account strategy and adapt across healthcare verticals.
  • A bachelor's degree in business or a healthcare field.
  • Ability to travel approximately 25–50%.

Responsibilities

  • Own a defined portfolio of named net-new enterprise accounts and develop a prioritized, insight-led pursuit strategy for each.
  • Create annual and quarterly territory plans balancing market potential, account fit, competitive position, timing, executive access, and probability of conversion.
  • Build account maps covering organizational structure, business units, initiatives, buying centers, stakeholders, technology, competitive footprint, and enterprise use cases.
  • Coordinate with leadership, business development, Marketing, partnerships, and market experts to generate access and accelerate engagement.
  • Create pipeline through strategic outbound prospecting, account-based marketing, executive outreach, industry events, referrals, partnerships, and relationship development.
  • Engage senior clinical, compliance, quality, nursing, human resources, learning, operations, finance, information technology, procurement, and executive stakeholders.
  • Develop multi-threaded relationships and establish credible executive sponsorship early in the pursuit.
  • Maintain sufficient pipeline coverage and progression to support consistent achievement of revenue objectives.
  • Lead executive-level discovery to uncover strategic priorities, operational challenges, workforce risks, desired outcomes, decision criteria, financial impact, and urgency.
  • Translate customer needs into a coordinated, multi-solution strategy tied to measurable clinical, compliance, workforce, quality, operational, and financial outcomes.
  • Partner with Solutions, Product, Services, Client Success, and subject-matter experts to design differentiated recommendations.
  • Create compelling value narratives, presentations, demonstrations, proposals, and business cases for diverse stakeholders.
  • Own the end-to-end enterprise sales cycle from qualification through close with clear next steps, stakeholder alignment, mutual commitments, and an evidence-based path to decision.
  • Apply MEDDPICC or the designated methodology, stakeholder mapping, mutual action planning, risk identification, and competitive strategy.
  • Lead internal deal strategy and mobilize executives and cross-functional resources at the right points in the pursuit.
  • Navigate procurement, requests for proposals, security, privacy, legal, integration, clinical validation, financial approval, and multi-entity decision processes.
  • Develop commercial strategies aligning scope, solution mix, services, implementation, term, pricing, and value.
  • Lead proposal development and negotiation with Sales leadership, Finance, Legal, Deal Desk, Security, and other partners.
  • Manage concessions deliberately, document tradeoffs, secure approvals, and convert complex opportunities into executable agreements.
  • Support an effective transition to implementation and Client Success.
  • Maintain accurate opportunity, account, contact, activity, next-step, risk, and forecast information in Salesforce.
  • Provide evidence-based forecasts and clearly communicate deal health, decision process, commercial risk, competitive dynamics, and support needs.
  • Use pipeline and performance data to adjust priorities, prospecting, executive engagement, and pursuit strategy.
  • Maintain current knowledge of healthcare market dynamics, regulatory and workforce trends, customer operating models, competitive alternatives, and Relias capabilities across healthcare verticals.
  • Represent Relias at industry events, customer meetings, executive forums, and professional associations with credibility and professionalism.
  • Share market, competitive, and customer insights with Product, Marketing, Solutions, Client Success, and Sales leadership to strengthen positioning, offerings, and go-to-market execution.
  • Partner cross-functionally to identify emerging customer needs, market opportunities, competitive risks, and insights that can improve enterprise sales strategy and execution.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience selling workforce, learning, compliance, competency, clinical education, quality, or human-capital solutions within healthcare.
  • Experience with MEDDPICC or another disciplined enterprise sales methodology.
  • Experience selling multi-product or enterprise-wide agreements across multiple facilities, business units, or care settings.
  • Understanding of healthcare workforce challenges, regulatory requirements, clinical operations, quality priorities, and technology buying processes.

About the Company

Bertelsmann

Global media, services, and education conglomerate

Bertelsmann is a global media, services, and education group made up of eight autonomous divisions, including RTL Group, Penguin Random House, BMG, and Arvato. It operates across B2B and B2C markets, with activities in broadcasting, book publishing, music rights management, and business process outsourcing. Its products range from streaming subscriptions and printed books to logistics, CRM services, and AI-powered content and rights-management tools. The company differentiates itself through a decentralized, entrepreneur-led structure that reinvests profits into content and digital infrastructure via its Boost program, backed by private foundations and the Mohn family. It aims to grow organically and through selective acquisitions while leveraging large-scale data and cross-divisional synergies to deliver personalized content and service experiences at a global scale.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$1.4B
Headquarters
Gütersloh, Germany
Founded
1835

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