Senior Sales Executive

Instacart

4h•$124,000 - $157,000•Remote

About The Position

As we continue our fast growth, we are looking to add to our Brand Partnerships team within the Business Development group. We are hiring a Senior Sales Executive to focus on core Alcohol CPG companies through relationship building, solution selling and influencing. Our Strategic Sales team works with our largest CPG brands and this role will support some of our biggest and most prestigious Spirits brands.

Requirements

A solid understanding of the CPG environment either through direct sales and/or brand experience or similar exposure (ie. engaging with stakeholders across eCommerce, Media, Agency, Commercial/Sales and Marketing/Brand teams)
Preferred working understanding of the 3-tier system and Tied House Law for BevAlc in the United States
Comfort in assembling and selling large brand-centric campaigns against major seasonal tentpole moments
Knowledge of the digital media landscape including connected TV, programmatic and social platforms for offsite media campaigns
Sales experience in fast-paced environment with average contract values of $100k - $1MM
Experience presenting to potential and current clients (presentation building)
High attention to detail with strong execution skills
Familiarity with the tools of the trade (eg. Microsoft Office, specifically Excel, Google Drive Suite, Salesforce)
Experience with large data sets and ability to extract business insights from analysis (Experience in Tableau, Periscope, Mode preferred)
Client presence and persuasiveness
Metrics orientation - can get up to speed on search/ad metrics quickly
Client service orientation - fast follow ups, general sense of urgency
Thrives in ambiguous, startup environments and enjoys rapid change and learning
Comfortable operating at both strategic and detailed levels, able to dive into data and make decisions based on insights
Customer-focused with the ability to identify consumer pain points and develop strategies to enhance the consumer experience
Openness to travel (30% - 40%)

Nice To Haves

Consistent historic performance of achieving sales quotas, while building strong client relationships

Responsibilities

Deliver on individual/team sales and net margin targets
Develop and maintain relationships with advertisers (Including stakeholders across eCommerce, Commercial, Agency, Media, Sales and Marketing/Brand teams)
Develop data driven sales collateral, case studies, and custom ‘stories’ to translate benefits of Instacart’s platform to CPG advertisers business needs.
Lead annual planning and budgeting process with Fortune 100 accounts
Create data-backed proposals for up to multi-million dollar contracts for digital advertising
Partner with Internal teams such as: account management, analytics, measurement, product and engineering to shape the future of our product monetization strategy
Collaborate with Marketing and Yield teams to design and sell bespoke campaigns against key advertiser occasions

Benefits

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.
This role also includes a Sales Incentive Plan.
Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.

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