An Outside Sales Executive at Smart Church Solutions plays a pivotal role in driving revenue growth by actively engaging with prospective customers, building relationships, and showcasing how our solutions can meet their unique needs. This position focuses on expanding our customer base through strategic outreach, personalized consultations, and fostering trust with decision-makers in the church and nonprofit sectors. The ultimate goal is to connect organizations with tools that empower them to manage their facilities efficiently and effectively.
Primary Responsibilities/Duties:
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities within churches that would be “Enterprise” tier of eSPACE, private schools, and denominational organizations (i.e. Catholic Diocese, Episcopal Diocese, and other church organizations that have influence or property ownership of the local church).
- Work with the Revenue Team to build out marketing efforts to impact this market
- Develop a personal “Subject Matter Expert voice” in these markets via blogs, targeted newsletters, conference/workshop speaking and webinars.
- Develop a robust pipeline through targeted research, outreach, and relationship-building.
- Engage with key decision-makers to understand their needs and provide customized solutions.
- Present and demonstrate eSPACE Event Scheduler and Work Order and Asset Management including the feature sets of the enterprise-level as well as Professional Services such as Facility Condition Assessments, Advanced Onboarding Services and Education Services.
- Lead the company’s efforts to expand into the private school and denominational markets, assessing trends and establishing go-to-market strategies in collaboration with the Revenue Team.
- Collaborate with leadership to create scalable solutions for large denominational organizations, enabling “one-to-many” relationships that support their network of churches and facilities.
- Build and nurture long-term relationships with the above referenced market segments.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for high-value accounts, ensuring satisfaction, retention, and expansion opportunities in collaboration with the Revenue Team and Enterprise Account Manager(s)
- Actively identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities within these networks.
- Collaborate with the Customer Success Manager/Enterprise Account Manager(s) throughout the customer journey
- Maintaining the company provided CRM with all interactions, sales activities, and deal progress.
- Work closely with internal teams, including marketing, customer success and product development, to ensure alignment on customer needs and solutions.
- Live out company culture
- We get’r done
- We are interconnected
- We are agile
- We care for others
Requirements:
- Proven experience (3+ years) in major account sales, working with large churches/organizations, private schools or denominational organizations, preferably in software or facility management solutions.
- Proven experience in building long and lasting relationships with prospects, industry leaders, “chief buying influencers” and network partners
- Demonstrated ability to meet or exceed sales quotas consistently.
- Strong presentation, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Familiarity with CRM tools and sales tracking systems.
- Ability to strategize and execute scalable, one-to-many account relationships effectively.