Strategic Account Executive

QA group; City of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education technology company is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to take ownership of a defined sector portfolio. In this role, you will generate and close new business, manage complex sales cycles, and collaborate across functions to deliver tailored solutions. The position offers a competitive salary with commission and emphasizes wellbeing through various employee benefits.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Competitive salary with a significant bonus

3 full training days from a wide range of courses

2 days off for charity work

Mindfulness and fitness classes

Qualifications

• Experience in partnership sales and knowledge of C-Suite engagement.
• Demonstrated success in managing large multi-stakeholder environments.
• Ability to lead complex sales cycles and develop tailored engagement strategies.

Responsibilities

• Generate and close new business within assigned sector.
• Develop account strategies and manage sales cycles.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver integrated solutions.

Skills

Partnership sales experience

C-Suite engagement

Business generation

Enterprise sales expertise

Complex deal orchestration

Understanding of Cloud and software landscapes

Job description

This range is provided by QA Ltd. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Role: Strategic Account Executive (Partnership Sales)

Competitive Base + Commission

We’re seeking a Strategic Account Executive to join our growing Enterprise Sales team. This is a rare opportunity to take full ownership of a defined sector portfolio and shape how global enterprises upskill their people, embed learning into transformation programmes and deliver measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively generate and close net new business within your assigned Vertical, consistently exceeding annual revenue targets.
• Identify and prioritise target accounts, develop tailored engagement strategies, and drive multi-stakeholder conversations to uncover critical needs.
• Own and lead complex sales cycles from discovery to contract, including business case development, proposal crafting, negotiation, and closing.
• Build deep, long-term executive relationships to expand strategic account value over time.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to design, scope, and deliver solutions that integrate content, technology and services in a way that aligns with client transformation goals.
• Build pipeline through a blend of outbound prospecting, sector insight‑led engagement and marketing‑generated leads.
• Partner with Account Executives, Customer Success and Solutions Engineers to ensure exceptional onboarding and delivery, unlocking renewals and upsell opportunities.
• Develop and maintain accurate forecasting and pipeline hygiene using Salesforce.
• Build your personal brand by attending events, speaking on panels, and contributing thought leadership across your Vertical.

Your Experience/ Skills

• Experience of partnership sales with exposure to and knowledge of C‑Suite engagement for the delivery of programmes of work in relation to Learning solutions and modular sales.
• Proven hunter mindset with 80%+ of your quota consistently achieved through new business generation.
• Demonstrated success managing large, multi‑stakeholder.
• Enterprise sales of £3million+ annual contract values (ACVs), and complex, multi layered, sales cycles.
• Experience selling enterprise level B2B solutions in Learning, business transformation.
• Skilled in complex deal orchestration and commercial negotiation at the C‑Suite level.
• Strong familiarity with enterprise trends such as skills‑based hiring, Artificial Intelligence (AI) workforce enablement, digital literacy and regulated industry requirements.
• Deep sector credibility and ability to speak fluently to industry‑specific challenges.
• The ability to lead conversations that uncover strategic pain, link value to commercial outcomes, and create urgency.
• Highly structured approach to account planning, pipeline building and forecasting.
• An understanding of the Cloud and software landscapes (e.g. AWS, Azure, DevOps, software engineering concepts etc…) a strong plus.

And what can we offer you?

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Competitive salary with a significant bonus.
• 3 full training days from a wide range of courses.
• 2 days off for charity work.

Work for a company that promotes Wellbeing (Mindfulness classes, fitness classes, wellbeing campaigns throughout the year with QA's approved listeners).

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Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Sales and Consulting

Industries

Professional Training and Coaching, E‑Learning Providers, and Business Consulting and Services