ROLE OVERVIEW\n\nWe are seeking a motivated and results-driven Strategic Account Executive to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving new business within your territory, focusing on building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders across various personas within an account. You will play a crucial role in expanding our customer base and ensuring successful sales outcomes through effective pipeline generation and accurate sales forecasting.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\n* Pipeline Generation:  Creating 80% of your pipeline by identifying new business opportunities and engaging with multiple personas within the prospect/customer base. Utilize various strategies and tools to generate leads and move them through the sales cycle.\n\n* Sales Forecasting: Develop and maintain accurate sales forecasts (+/- 10 of goal),, leveraging data to inform decision-making and ensure predictable revenue outcomes with the goal of consistent attainment of revenue targets.\n\n* Solution Selling: Effectively communicate the value of our platform, tailoring presentations and proposals to meet the specific needs of each prospect.\n\n* Negotiation and Closing: Lead negotiations with potential clients, by thoughtfully addressing key stakeholders including multiple personas and CxO in the buyer journey, while navigating organizational complexities, addressing objections and securing new business agreements.\n\n* Account Management: Work across multiple personas within an account to understand their unique needs and align Benchling’s solutions with their business objectives.\n\n* Collaboration: Partner with internal teams (marketing, product, customer success, etc) and Channel to ensure a seamless experience for clients and drive long-term customer satisfaction.\n\n* Continuous Learning: Stay informed about industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge in the market.\n\n* Process: Drive the sales process through Pipeline Generation (PG), 3 Why’s, Champion Building, MEDDIC, Command of the Message, etc.  Maintain account integrity and opportunity data within company systems; Salesforce.\n\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\nYou are drawn to our mission and you want to help Benchling win new business. You are committed to working in a collaborative environment, working together as a team. You have a love for working in a fast-paced environment and taking the initiative to get stuff done and try new things. You are passionate about powering new possibilities in biotech faster. \n\n\n* Proven experience as an Account Executive, preferably within a data management, workflow SaaS or technology-driven environment that sells to multiple personas across IT & Line of business.\n\n* Demonstrated ability to drive pipeline generation and manage complex sales cycles.\n\n* Strong sales forecasting skills with a track record of meeting or exceeding targets.\n\n* Demonstrated success in selling products or solutions that typically fall outside of pre-established budgets, with a proven ability to build a compelling business case and influence purchasing decisions.\n\n* Experience working with diverse personas within an account (from technical decision makers, business decision makers & CxO execs), with the ability to influence decision-making at all the levels.\n\n* Dynamic communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.\n\n* Self-motivated, with a strong drive to achieve and exceed goals.\n\n* Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.\n\n* Familiarity with MEDDIC sales methodology is a plus but not required.\n\n* Knowledge of the life sciences industry, including: R&D, and/or IT functions is preferred but not required.\n\n* Bachelor’s degree - life sciences major is preferred but not required.\n\n\n\nSALARY RANGE\n\nBenchling takes a market-based approach to pay.  The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location. For this role the base salary range is $100k-$150k. However, because this role is eligible to participate in Benchling's commission plan, it is common for employees in this role to receive total on-target earnings of $200k-$300k.\n\nTotal Compensation includes the following:\n\n\n* Competitive salary and equity\n\n* Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents\n\n* Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits\n\n* Four months of fully paid parental leave\n\n* 401(k) + Employer Match\n\n* Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees\n\n* Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents\n\n* Monthly Wellness stipend\n\n* Learning and development stipend\n\n* Generous and flexible vacation\n\n* Company-wide Summer & Winter holiday shutdown\n\n* Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries\n\n\n\n\n#LI-Remote\n\n#BI-Remote\n\n#LI-SF1 \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to SaaS and Sales jobs that are similar:\n\n $95,000 — $125,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWashington, District of Columbia, United States

At H1 we are creating a healthier future by delivering a platform that connects stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem for greater collaboration and discovery.  We believe providing a trusted and single source of truth for healthcare professional information will power connections in healthcare - and that these connections will lead us to a healthier future. Visit h1.co to learn more about us.\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO AT H1\nAs an Account Manager on the Commercial team, you will help drive our business to meet our revenue goals. You will be working with stakeholders across the organization, and directly with our customers, to understand our business, the markets we’re in and the needs of our users. You will engage with customer stakeholders, showcase the value of our platform and partnership, and help H1 maintain our status as the market leader. \n\nAs an H1 Account Manager you will:\n- Identify, develop and execute sales strategy\n- Account Managers will manage current clients, focusing on retaining existing ARR and expand revenue across each assigned account.\n- Develop and implement specific customer accounts and opportunity plans supporting company goals and quota objectives\n- Engage with C-suite executives and align with their strategic roadmap\n- Communicate effectively between internal teams to deliver efficient results for your clients, along with cross functionally supporting teams during onboarding process\n- Report and forecast sales pursuits on monthly, quarterly and annual basis\n- Generate and manage new business within current client accounts\n- Support and participate with the marketing team to identify and execute plans for market awareness, client case studies, and vertical market growth within assigned accounts\n- Know prospective client’s business to a degree that allows for value add strategic discussion in sales meetings\n- Manage and update customer relationship tools for every client interaction\n- Ensure an efficient process is followed to execute sales agreements and ongoing management of client relationships\n \nABOUT YOU\nYou are a seasoned professional with experience selling enterprise SaaS technology. In addition, you know how to manage expectations, both internal and external, to ensure the company can deliver and meet client needs.\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n- 5-8+ years of experience in selling SaaS technology\n- Experience in managing an existing book of business that includes enterprise and mid-tier accounts\n- Selling in the pharma & biotech space is preferred\n- You are comfortable with traveling to customers up to 20% of the time\n- Ready to learn quickly, focus on the customer need, and close business\n \nNot meeting all the requirements but still feel like you’d be a great fit? Tell us how you can contribute to our team in a cover letter!\n\nH1 OFFERS\n- A competitive compensation package including stock options\n- A full suite of health insurance options, in addition to Unlimited Paid Time Off\n- Flexible work hours & the opportunity to work from anywhere, with optional commuter benefits\n- Investment in your success by providing you with the skills, knowledge, and mentorship to make you successful\n- An opportunity to work with leading biotech and life sciences companies, in an innovative industry with a mission to improve healthcare around the globe\n\nH1 Insights is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace with equal opportunity for all applicants and teammates. Our goal is to recruit the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex (including pregnancy), age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\n \nH1 is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodation to applicants with mental and/or physical disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to your recruiter once you've begun the interview process. All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially, as practical and permitted by law.\n\n#LI-H1\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Executive, Marketing, Sales, SaaS and Biotech jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUS Remote