Strategic Account Executive - Turkey at GitLab

GitLab is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to focus on the Turkish territory. This role involves supporting GitLab’s strategic large prospects and customers based in Turkey. The Strategic Account Executive will report to an Area Sales Manager of the region.

The role involves providing account leadership, conducting sales activities, ensuring successful rollout and adoption of GitLab products, contributing product ideas, generating qualified leads, expanding industry knowledge, preparing reports, contributing to root cause analysis, assisting sales management, utilizing a consultative approach, developing account plans, and collaborating with Marketing.

Responsibilities:

• Supports GitLab’s strategic large prospects and customers based in Turkey
• Provide account leadership and direction in the pre- and post-sales process
• Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities in large/strategic accounts
• Ensure the successful rollout and adoption of GitLab products through strong account management activities and coordination with pre-and-post sales and support resources
• Be the voice of the customer by contributing product ideas to our public issue tracker
• Generate qualified leads and develop new customers in conjunction with our strategic channel partners
• Expand knowledge of industry as well as the competitive posture of the company
• Prepare activity and forecast reports
• Contribute to root cause analysis on wins/losses. Communicate lessons learned to the team, including account managers, the marketing team, and the technical team
• Assist sales management in conveying customer needs to product managers, and technical support staff
• Utilize a consultative approach, discuss business issues with prospect and develop a formal quote, a written sales proposal or a formal sales presentation addressing their business needs
• Develop an account plan to sell to customers based on their business needs
• Collaborate with Marketing on marketing strategies.

Requirements:

• Working knowledge and experience of winning and securing deals in the Turkish region.
• Turkish language is required
• A true desire to see customers benefit from the investment they make with you
• Able to provide high degree of account management and control
• Work under minimal supervision on complex projects
• Experience selling into large organizations
• Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success
• Excellent negotiation, presentation and closing skills
• Preferred experience with Git, Software Development Tools, Application Lifecycle Management
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Ability to use GitLab