Market Research Sales Manager - EMEA

At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.

When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the microphone and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.

Market Research Sales Manager - EMEA

Why We Have This Role

Qualtrics Market Research helps companies make the right call through insights subscriptions and bespoke engagements. We empower clients with insights to make confident and intelligent decisions. Our industry-leading research expertise, run on a world-class experience platform, enhanced with unique data, leads to faster, richer and more reliable outcomes.

Qualtrics Market Research provides always-on intelligence to power breakthrough decisions and uncover overnight opportunities. Offerings like connected intelligence, simulated audiences and market activity predictions are a few of the Qualtrics Market Research offerings. We exist to connect the dots between what consumers think and how they act, so we can predict what they might do next. Our industry-leading research expertise, run on a world-class experience platform, enhanced with unique data, leads to faster, richer and more reliable outcomes. We are seeking experienced sales Account Executives to drive new commercial growth of our new software subscription offerings within their assigned territory.

How You'll Find Success

• Relationship Building: Master stakeholder mapping to cultivate relationships with multiple contacts within an account, ensuring lasting partnerships.

• Negotiation Skills: Navigate negotiations with professionalism, understanding the art of give-and-take.

• Multi-Selling Approach: Drive engagement with various business stakeholders in parallel to create multifaceted selling opportunities.

• Empathetic Competitiveness: While being competitive, possess the ability to empathize and understand others’ perspectives.

• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Take initiative to grasp the expected outcomes and context, working independently to drive results.

• Effective Communication: Influence effectively at all levels, creating trust and collaboration within the team.

How You’ll Grow

• By joining Qualtrics MR, you become part of a revolutionary team committed to shaping groundbreaking experiences using Data + AI advancements

• You will help us expand the XM category beyond where it is today with more advanced use cases & pioneering advancements in AI.

• Our mission is to build technology that positively impacts businesses and makes them more human.

• As a member of our global sales MR organization, you will take ownership of a dedicated territory and develop robust strategies designed to drive demand and revenue.

• We foster an environment that encourages big-picture thinking, innovation, and creativity, enabling you to build relationships with multiple decision-makers and articulate the unique value proposition of Qualtrics.

Things You’ll Do

• Lead a team of 5-7 Account Executives.

• Coaching direct reports in sales strategy, pipeline management, opportunity management, and career planning/development.

• Recruit, retain, and nurture your team of experienced sales professionals with high potential and strong performance history.

• Provide skill training and mentoring on complex sales motions, including collaboration with legal, product presentations, juggling multiple relationships with internal teams, and quarterly sales forecasting.

• Interface and develop professional relationships with existing clients and prospects throughout at all levels of an organization.

• Display a systemic approach to handling meaningful contract negotiations/deals with multiple reps at a time.

• Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of Qualtrics' solution offerings.

• Maintain a real-time understanding of the competitive landscape to assist in building win-based proposals and pricing.

• Serve as an executive sponsor during enterprise-level deals.

• Maintain a real-time understanding of the competitive landscape to assist in determining win-based proposals and pricing.

• Develop and maintain positive relationships with other functional areas internally at Qualtrics, e.g., Professional Services, Implementation, Subject Matter Experts, etc, to ensure a collaborative approach to secure large enterprise engagements

What We’re Looking For On Your CV

• Significant experience selling Market Research solutions, and experience in discussing strategic business issues at Director and C level in Large Enterprise accounts.

• A validated winner that has led teams to breakthrough results

• Experience over-exceeding quarterly team quotas through metric-based skill development and

• Experience working on complex contract negotiations

• At least two years managing an enterprise-level sales team

• At least 6-8 years of individual enterprise-level sales experience

• Experience using MEDDIC sales processes

• Experience using Salesforce.com and measuring system compliance

• Ability to travel up to 50%

• A bachelor’s degree or higher is required

• German, French or another language is preferred

What You Should Know About This Team

• We work with a team of highly motivated, ambitious individuals. Keeping that energy and spirit alive is critical, while balancing an expectation of meritocracy as it pertains to performance management.

• Our customer satisfaction rate is incredibly high and a point of pride for our teams. Identifying ways to continue to delight stakeholders is key.

• Creating space and encouraging/ expecting innovation to come from different areas of the team is critical to our team’s and company’s growth and success.

• The day-to-day in this role is dynamic and fast paced - the ability to prioritize and focus is critical to success

• We are extremely proud of the culture of this team and ensuring that is preserved and developed is key to our long-term success

Our Team’s Favourite Perks and Benefits

• Qualtrics Experience Program - A bonus each year for an experience of your choosing

• Worldwide and diverse community that enjoys helping each other

• At Qualtrics we are constantly working to create an environment where everyone feels safe and comfortable coming to work and can, as a result of our culture, make their best possible contribution to our team

The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life. #remote

Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

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Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.

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