Strategic Account Manager, Insurance, Google Cloud

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Google Cloud is seeking a Strategic Account Manager in Zurich for a full-time onsite role to drive enterprise growth with a consultative, multi-year approach. You will own complex, multi-year contracts, orchestrate internal and external teams, and expand consumption of cloud, data and AI solutions while building executive relationships and credible business cases. The right candidate has 7 or more years in quota carrying cloud or software sales or consultative B2B account management, a history of developing account plans, and success securing new logos and accelerating revenue. To apply, tailor your resume to demonstrate strategic selling to executives, measurable ROI, pipeline discipline, cross-functional collaboration, and concrete results tied to Google Cloud capabilities.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in quota-carrying cloud or software sales, or consultative account management at a B2B software company.
• Experience engaging and building relationships with a wide range of internal teams and customer stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with consultative selling to executives, asking insightful, visionary questions, presenting future-forward proposals, and building multi-year account strategies and plans.
• Experience expanding existing accounts, securing new customers, and accelerating consumption revenue.
• Experience with complex deal structuring, negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements, and supporting multi-year engagements.
• Experience qualifying leads and presenting the value proposition of cloud, data, and AI technologies against customers’ strategic business opportunities and challenges.
• Experience showcasing current technology trends and Google Cloud.

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 Field Sales Representative (FSR), you will serve as a strategic partner to Google Cloud customers in your territory. You will manage the growth strategy for enterprise accounts, engaging customers with consultative value selling methodology. You will drive long-term revenue growth by gaining a deep understanding of your customers' critical challenges and aligning them with Google Cloud's portfolio of solutions. You will lead the end-to-end sales process, from initiating customer conversations to orchestrating internal and external teams to deliver revenue commitments and increased consumption. You will advocate the innovative power of our products and solutions to make organizations more productive, collaborative, and mobile.

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

• Develop and implement sales strategies to surpass revenue targets and build trusted, consultative relationships with customers. Leverage emerging technology trends, market analysis, and knowledge of cloud solutions to showcase how Google Cloud can transform customers' business.
• Manage and track the sales pipeline, from lead to close, ensuring health and accurate forecasting for clear visibility into expected outcomes.
• Manage complex, multi-year contracts and formulate persuasive proposals that illustrate clear return on investment through customer business cases and comprehensive deployment plans.
• Mobilize internal experts (Customer Engineering, Partner, Post-Sales) and external partners at the right time to drive consumption and deliver a seamless customer experience.