Sales Account Executive

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Account Executive - Bower

Bower’s vision is to make recycling a rewarding no-brainer and create a world free from trash. We’re aiming to become the first impact tech unicorn in Sweden, helping +1B consumers make sustainable choices by rewarding them for doing the right thing.

We’re a bold and visionary, yet down-to-earth and heart-centered, tech company based in Stockholm and we’re now looking for our first two Account Executives (AEs) to join our team.  


As an Account Executive at Bower, you’ll be part of an award-winning team passionate about creating a global recycling movement. You’ll be responsible for closing contracts on a global, as well as local level with Enterprise, Mid-market and SMB companies – and to your help, you’ll have the entire sales, marketing, and product team. Our addressable market is worldwide. Since our launch in 2019, we’ve grown close to 300 thousand users with customers in five countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, United States) with several more market entries to come. We aspire to scale our business in a smart, data-driven and fast-paced way.  


You will work with inbound inquiries, as well as engage prospects with data-driven outbound activities, through proven sales methods, tactics and processes applied by LinkedIn and Mentimeter. 

We’re looking for a colleague with high energy, an entrepreneurial spirit, and the ability to work closely with our marketing and product colleagues, with a strong focus on creating business opportunities to generate customer value and revenues. We’re looking for a strong performer with the fundamental understanding that we win together as a team. 


Bower is a service that is loved in Sweden and our growth has been almost 100% organic. We are growing at a rapid rate and you will be a driving force to accelerate our growth even further. 

We believe that a brilliant person with the right ambition can really leverage their time at Bower. We are growing fast, and with us, so will you. Most importantly, we are looking for a candidate who is eager to develop Bower as a company to a world-leading position. You will be one of the leading individuals making this happen.   


Responsibilities for the role:  

  • Manage and close high-level business in a fast-moving sales environment 

  • Prospect to build your pipeline and strong relationships with Enterprise (E.g. Unilever, Nestlé and P&G), Mid-market and SMB-companies with a global and local presence in five countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, United States), with several more market entries to come

  • Assess business opportunities and use data to make informed decisions by helping our customers win and succeed with their business objectives 

  • Sell to early adopters and those adopting Bower for the first time 

  • Close new logo business consistently at or above your quota 

  • Facilitate an efficient transition of won business to our Customer Success Manager 

  • Develop and execute on a strategic plan for the territory and document and distribute competitive information in order for us to win as a team

  • Create reliable forecasts and be completely transparent with sales leadership on the pipeline status 

  • Listen to the needs of the market and share insights with the Product, Marketing and Sales team

  • Seek out opportunities to be a leader and do everything you can to help our company achieve its larger objectives 


What resources do we have to support you:  

  • World-class lead-generation from the Marketing and Product team

  • Marketing and Sales team to support in analysis and tactics 

  • Sales Development Representative (SDR) to support you with prospecting, lead qualification and pipeline creation

  • Professional CRM and data gathering services (Hubspot, Mixpanel, Sales Navigator)

  • Experienced and award-winning sales leadership with a proven track record


Must haves for the role:  

  • At least 1 year of high volume / transactional B2B sales 

  • Experience working with a CRM platform 

  • Ability to assess business opportunities and use data to inform decision making and persuade others 

  • Knowledge of software contract terms and conditions with the ability to create fair transactions 

  • Strong negotiation and accurate forecasting skills 

  • Ability to manage a large number of prospect situations simultaneously while positioning company products against direct and indirect competitors 

  • Sustain success in acquiring new business or customer acquisition 

  • Business level Swedish and English (written and spoken) as we sell to several countries today (with several more to come)

  • Excellent communication skills  


It's a bonus if you have:  

  • Experience in selling SaaS 

  • Experience from working at a startup

  • Bachelor or masters degree (field not important)  

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Central office
Central office

Your local office is your anchor point, thus, we placed it centrally at your convenience.

Working at
Bower

Bower’s vision is to make recycling a rewarding no-brainer and create a world free from trash. We’re aiming to become the first impact tech unicorn in Sweden, helping +1B consumers make sustainable choices by rewarding them for doing the right thing. We’re a bold and visionary, yet down-to-earth and heart-centered, tech company based in Stockholm. Our mission is to reduce the number of packaging that ends up as trash in nature and increase recycling rates by giving all packaging a value in monetary terms – ”pant” – just like with PET bottles and cans in Sweden. That’s why we’ve developed a world-unique mobile app that rewards recycling of all consumer packaging at regular recycling bins. We are first-movers with global customers such as Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Mondelez, currently operating in Sweden and in USA. We have a revolutionarily scalable business model where the only thing we need to do to scale up to other markets is to pinpoint the GPS coordinates of already existing recycling stations. In cases where we lack this data, consumers upload the stations themselves. We've been on the top lists of both App Store and Google Play in Sweden since we launched in August 2019. Bower is an award-winning startup: - Winners of Norrsken People’s Choice Award 2019 - Winners of Carnegie’s prize Future Entrepreneurs 2019 - Winners of PwC’s prize Social Entrepreneurs of the Year 2018 - Winners of Nordea’s Largest Impact Within 5 Years Check out our rebranding film to get a feel for us: https://youtu.be/7eUZuN49LV8

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