Get to know Okta

Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

The UK Public Sector Team 

This team is small but mighty and adding to their ranks; we're looking for someone to lead Healthcare / NHS territory for the South of the UK as we increase our reach in this very important space. The Okta technology could enhance the NHS through both patient experience with our Customer Identity solution and improved productivity and security through our Workforce Identity solution. 

As an Okta Healthcare Account Executive you will: 

• Go to market to the NHS and other Healthcare establishments as an expert on both our Workforce and Customer identity cloud offerings.
• Establish a vision and plan for the accounts assigned in your territory.
• Build thorough account plans detailing customer strategy, financials, pains, objectives and stakeholders. 
• Proactively drive your own top of funnel activity through calls, inmails, events, networking and other creative avenues always ensuring you have enough pipeline to hit your number. 
• Use Sales Development (SDR’s & BDR’s), Marketing and the Partner ecosystem to help find and win new logo opportunities. 
• Leverage upsell and cross sell opportunities within your install base accounts to grow the success of your customers and Okta. 
• Adopt a strong value based sales approach; always looking to bring a compelling point of view to our customers. 
• Develop trusted and long term advisory partnership with Executives in your accounts, leveraging the Okta technology to support them in hitting their key strategic goals. 
• Follow a MEDDPICC sales methodology to navigate complexity in the sales cycle and ensure you’re ahead of any obstacles to the deal closing. 
• Build mutual action plans in partnership with your customers to create shared accountability.
• Partner with cross functional teams from Sales Development (SDR’s & BDR’s) to Channel & Alliances, Marketing, Pre-Sales, Solutions Architects, Legal, Deal Desk and more to ensure success for yourself and Okta. 
• Leverage our Business Value team to show our customers their ROI and deliver effective messaging about the long term impact of the Okta solutions.

• Experience selling Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud technology into Healthcare organisations, in particular the NHS. 
• Experience self sourcing your opportunities through a range of methods with a drive to win and grow new logos. 
• Navigated long complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders from both the customer base and within your own company. 
• Significant experience selling to both technical audiences such as CIO, CISO, CTO and the commercial personas such as Product, Marketing, HR, Operations etc. 
• Expert using a Sales Framework such as MEDDICC, Challenger or Sandler (we use MEDDPICC)

What you can look forward to as an Okta employee!

• Amazing Benefits
• Making Social Impact
• Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta 

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

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