As an Account Executive, you'll drive revenue, generate opportunities, lead presentations, and collaborate on account strategies to achieve sales goals.
Joyride is a new marketplace in one of the few overlooked segments left in the automotive industry, unclaimed vehicle auctions. Started by a team of successful entrepreneurs, a few car aficionados, and a talented development team, they had the vision to create the industry-leading online auction platform to make it easy and safe to buy and sell unclaimed vehicles.
Joyride launched in April 2020 after a year of laser-focused brand creation and product development. We are now successfully executing regular online unclaimed vehicle auctions in major U.S. cities and expanding into new markets. We are a lean, impactful team composed of motivated, positive, and collaborative individuals dedicated to making Joyride the leading unclaimed vehicle auction platform.
About you:
You are a tenacious go-getter with a knack for building trusted relationships with customers. You love the craft of sales, especially in a start-up environment where the playing field is undefined and customers are industrial. You’ve successfully built an account strategy with a solution-oriented approach. You are passionate about forming a deep understanding of the marketplace and can create personalized experiences for our customers to achieve our business goals. You have a bias to action and owning the outcome!
What you’ll do:
-Own your territory to drive revenue growth and meet quarterly targets
-Generate and advance new opportunities to the pipeline each week to meet quarterly and annual quota targets
-Act as a model representative of Joyride. Lead presentations to clients, build trusted-advisor relationships with customers and attend marketing events/conferences
-Exemplify team selling culture. Collaborate closely with your extended team, which include: -Operations Marketing, Analytics, and leadership
-Deliver accurate monthly and quarterly forecasts of your business.
-Lead strategic account planning for your top accounts, collaborating closely with the extended team
-Educate sellers on the process of listing and selling cars on Joyrideautos.com
Qualifications:
-Proven track record (3+ years) of consistent quota attainment.
-A strong sense of ownership with a bias for action. Roll-up-your-sleeves attitude
-Excellent communication and presentation skills
-Extensive experience prospecting and meeting with prospects in an industrial industry
-Demonstrated closing and negotiation skills, driving deals to closure
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