Senior Account Executive (Remote Eligible)
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Position Summary

The Senior Account Executive will be responsible for creating opportunities, driving new sales, and managing the sales pipeline within a defined territory. Their primary role is to develop enterprise-level relationships to close High-Value opportunities in the financial services and FinTech industry. This position will report to the Financial Institution (FI) Sales Manager of FirsTech, a subsidiary of First Busey Corporation (FBC).

Duties & Responsibilities
  • Meet or exceed annual sales targets
  • Develop strategies to drive sales in a defined territory by identifying, qualifying, and managing execution of new business opportunities
  • Lead identified opportunities through a defined sales process, from lead qualification to successful deal closure
  • Build pipeline for future sales opportunities
  • Work with the management team to develop strategies that generate or progress pipeline within the defined territory
  • Work with leadership to prospect and identify accounts, and execute on sales process
  • Build trust and credibility at all levels within a prospects' organization and, thereby, identify business priorities, demonstrate value/ROI of FirsTech solutions, and ensure a successful implementation
  • Develop enterprise-level relationships with new prospects and with our internal teams to uncover new opportunities.

Education & Experience

Knowledge of:

  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Strong sales and customer service skills
  • Developing and maintaining knowledge of industry trends, associated solutions, and key partners
  • FinTech or financial services ecosystems, with working knowledge of the landscape and relationships with key players, to drive immediate impact

Ability to:

  • Meet and exceed monthly quotas
  • Analyze and solve problems of a complex nature and make decisions based on a wide knowledge of many factors where application of advanced technical concepts is required for which there are not precedents
  • Originate new procedures and approaches to problems
  • Perform duties under frequent time pressures

Education and Training:

  • 3+ years of proven success as a Senior Sales Associate (ideally in the FinTech or Technology services arena); 8+ years of selling technology products/services
  • Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Business, Marketing, Finance or Economics (MBA is a plus).
  • Travel required (up to 50% within the assigned territory.

Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey's commitment of delivering service excellence. Busey is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets. Visit Busey.com/Careers to learn more about Busey's Equal Opportunity Employment.


EOE of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability

 

Job Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
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