Data Analytics Sales Specialist, Cloud

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Copenhagen, Denmark; Stockholm, Sweden
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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in a sales role in the enterprise software or cloud space.
• Experience selling data analytics or data management technologies to clients.
• Ability to communicate in English fluently to manage relationships with local and international stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience supporting executive relationships, and developing new accounts, ensuring customer success and expansion.
• Experience exceeding business goals in a sales role.
• Experience planning sales activity and transformation strategies within business cycles aligned to data and analytics, and with data analytics technology stack.
• Experience working with internal/external teams, including account teams, technical leads, procurement, legal, to inventory existing software estate, build cases for transformation with implementation plans, and facilitate agreements.
• Knowledge of trends, products, and solutions in Cloud and data and analytics.
• Abillity to communicate in Danish or Swedish fluently to manage relationships with local and international stakeholders.

About The Job
The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Data Analytics Sales Specialist, you will help us grow our data analytics business by building and expanding relationships with new and existing customers. You will work with customers to deliver true business value, demonstrate product functionality and provide a comprehensive overview of key business use cases. You will lead day-to-day relationships with cross-functional team members, serving as a solution lead within the sales organization. You will also lead go-to-market strategies and sales plays, manage campaigns, and provide feedback to Product and Global Solutions Teams to inform our product solutions roadmap. You will shape customers' cloud and data analytics strategy and enable digital transformation. Additionally, you will lead with empathy, while identifying innovative ways to multiply your impact and the impact of the team as a whole to drive overall value for Google Cloud.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with customers as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, managing complex business cycles, identifying solution use cases, and influencing long-term strategic direction of accounts.
• Deliver against quota and achieve or exceed strategic business and growth goals while forecasting and reporting your territory's business.
• Work with Google accounts and cross-functional teams (e.g. Customer Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Channels) to develop go-to-market strategies, drive pipeline and business growth, facilitate agreements, understand the customer's needs, and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.
• Develop and execute strategic account plans, including a broader enterprise plan across key industries; focus on building accounts.
• Work with multiple customers and opportunities simultaneously, understanding each customer's technology footprint and strategy, growth plans, business drivers, participants, and how they can transform their business using our technologies.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .