Major Account Executive - SLED

Sales | US - Chicago, IL - Remote

About the company:   

In today’s highly connected digital world, understanding, managing and securing the identity of individuals and things is essential to safety and success of both businesses and their customers.   Billions of people connect from anywhere, use a wide variety of devices and expect a seamless yet secure experience.   

The ForgeRock mission is to provide the most simple and comprehensive Identity and Access Management Platform to help our customers deepen their relationships with their consumers and improve the productivity and connectivity of their employees and partners.  Our identity solution enables great digital experiences and is embedded with a rich set of security, privacy and consent features.  We deliver our platform through both cloud services and on-premises software. 

Our customers are some of the biggest companies, organizations, and even countries in the world. On any given day, it’s likely that the ForgeRock Identity Platform helped keep your data safe, gave you access to stuff, and supported trusted relationships between you, companies and the devices you were using.

ForgeRock is headquartered in San Francisco, but we are a global company with offices in the following cities: Vancouver, WA; Austin, TX; Munich, Germany; London & Bristol, UK; Grenoble & Paris, FR; Oslo, NO; Singapore and Sydney, Australia.  Please read more about us at forgerock.com or follow ForgeRock on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/forgerock.

The Role:

Reporting to the local Regional Vice President, this is a strategic sales role as we accelerate our growth at this crucial stage in our company’s development. You will be tasked with driving sales within your sector, working within a quarterly cycle.

ForgeRock’s growth now requires repeatable success. You will have evidence of solution selling and success, with expertise in building extraordinary customer relationships and role modeling your behaviors within a team. The ability to leverage the partner community, architect solutions, and reach into a well-established network are key elements for future success.

In order to acquire, retain and extend customer relationships, you will be a high performer who uses data, previous knowledge, and current feedback to finesse your approach. Focused on the work needed to be done, and culturally conscious of the way to do the work, you will be constantly aware of the true measurements of success. Your mindset should be passionate, authentic, and hungry, with a natural ability to find the best opportunities and to drive them to a successful conclusion. 

Responsibilities:

Business Management:

• Creates, implements, measures and reviews a personal plan that drives achievement of performance goals aligned to the Regional sales strategy
• Devises how to position and articulate ForgeRock’s value proposition at sector customers, with a view to increasing average deal size
• Negotiate and close complex enterprise contracts with global partners and customers
• Reports on sales activity and forecasts to senior management
• Prepares indicative subscription pricing and customer offers, including reviewing broader opportunities such as training and professional services modules, and guides Request for Proposal responses
• Identifies and pursues opportunities to expand business activities within areas of responsibility
• Plans and controls the expense associated with area of responsibility even if not responsible for overall cost center
• Establishes working relationships with external parties which support the achievement of business goals
• Complies with all relevant systems and procedures
• Provides customer feedback to marketing, customer success, product management, and engineering teams
• Coaches/mentors new team members as requested by the RVP

Resource Management:

• Accurately forecasts and achieves sales targets
• Identifies and allocates appropriate resources to opportunities
• Works collaboratively to acquire additional/specialist resources, including legal, finance and marketing

Customer Management:

• Has established sector-related C level contacts in large Enterprise customers
• Builds relationships with customers (internal or external) as necessary – previous executive engagement and network is key to the success of this role

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Expertise in technology sales and account management
• Results-oriented with multiple years meeting or exceeding quota
• Has worked for a US global matrixed organization
• Good interpersonal skills to align and foster positive working relationships across the organization
• Industry/Vertical market knowledge
• Competitor knowledge
• Partner Knowledge
• Sales best practices

Life at ForgeRock:

We believe in and facilitate a flexible, collaborative work environment. We’ve grown enormously, but remain true to the innovative, can-do startup values that got us here. Most important of all, we keep hiring talented, smart, fun, and genuinely nice people because that’s who we want to succeed with every day. Below are just a few of the great things we have to offer at ForgeRock:

• A great team of smart, fun and genuinely nice individuals.
• Awesome company culture focused around providing a flexible and collaborative work environment
• Regular office bonding events, from lunches and happy hours to group offsites and hack-days
• Well-stocked fridges, whether you’re hungry or thirsty
• Competitive benefits and perks
• We’re Mac-friendly!
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Amazing offices across the globe – San Francisco HQ; Vancouver, WA; Austin, TX; Munich, Germany; London & Bristol, UK; Grenoble & Paris, FR; Oslo, NO; Singapore, Australia & counting!

ForgeRock is the collective sum of all our individual experiences, backgrounds and influences and we pride ourselves in growing and learning together. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone’s individuality is respected and everyone has an Identity. In recruiting for new colleagues, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring and encourage you to be your best self.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.