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Senior Services Executive

Workday Chicago, IL Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$143,000 USD - $214,600 USD per year

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Description

We're looking for a Senior Services Executive to join our team. You will use your experience in consulting and change management to help customers visualize a transformation powered by Workday Solutions. You will work closely with our ecosystem of Global Systems Integrators (SIs) to align on methodology and ensure our customers adopt a modern, data-driven approach to their business challenges.

Responsibilities:

  • Drive Strategic Value: Effectively position the value of Workday's deployment methodology, moving the conversation beyond technical setup to business transformation, AI-driven efficiency, and data insights.
  • Evangelize Innovation: Act as the subject matter expert on how Workday solutions can solve unique business problems, distinguishing our platform from legacy competitors.
  • Consultative Discovery: Conduct services discovery sessions focused on business outcomes, change readiness, and strategic goals rather than just functional requirements.
  • Partner Alignment: Cultivate deep, mutually beneficial relationships with Big SI partners, ensuring alignment on deployment strategy and commercial models.
  • Commercial Execution: Lead, negotiate, and close Professional Services Agreements, Statements of Work, and other contractual documentation with a focus on value-based outcomes.
  • Forecasting: Maintain accurate and timely prospect, pipeline, and service forecast data.
  • Relationship Building: Use your presentation and influencing abilities to solve complex problems and foster long-term relationships built on a foundation of empathy, mutual trust, and strategic vision.

Requirements:

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in sales.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience carrying a sales quota.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience managing sales pipeline.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience identifying business opportunities within customer accounts.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience partnering with customer stakeholders to support sales cycles.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience selling professional services, consulting, deployment, transformation, or advisory offerings.
  • Experience supporting Large Enterprise customers, building trusted customer relationships across complex enterprise accounts, and selling to executive stakeholders such as CFOs, CHROs, or other C-level leaders.
  • Experience owning a territory or book of business, including identifying business opportunities, growing customer footprint, forecasting sales opportunities, and using sales tools such as Salesforce, Clari, or similar platforms.
  • Experience creating or supporting customer proposals, statements of work, service estimates, business cases, or account plans, and supporting complex sales cycles involving Sales, Pre-sales, Partners, Customer Success, Services, Advisory, Change Management, Integration, or implementation teams.
  • Experience with Workday or other enterprise cloud applications, including HCM, ERP, Financials, Planning, SaaS, PaaS, AI, ML, or related business applications.
  • Experience working with Global Systems Integrators, such as Deloitte, Accenture, PwC, KPMG, or similar partners.

Travel: 25-50% travel required.

Salary: $143,000 USD - $214,600 USD

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