Strategic Sales Executive

Location: New York, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Irvine, Los Angeles, Denver, Stamford, Hartford, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, Minneapolis, Hoboken, Iselin, Chicago, Philadelphia, McLean, Seattle, Washington, Dallas, Charlotte About Sales & Strategic Pursuits EY’s Sales & Strategic Pursuits (S&SP) function unites sales leadership, sector insight, technology expertise, and solution depth to drive market‑leading growth. As EY’s growth catalyst, S&SP shapes and executes integrated go‑to‑market strategies across priority accounts, industry sectors, and strategic alliances—delivering differentiated value through a deeply client‑centric culture. Opportunity As a Snowflake Alliance Sales Executive, you will operate at the front edge of growth for one of EY’s fastest‑growing alliance relationships. This is a true sales hunter role—focused on originating net‑new opportunities, building pipeline, and closing sales through deep partnership with Snowflake and direct engagement with Consumer Products & Retail and Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) clients. You will be a market‑facing, quota‑carrying, executive seller with deep expertise across the Snowflake platform and depth across consumer products, retail, health services, life sciences, and healthcare organizations. You will proactively create demand, not respond to it, identifying whitespace opportunities, shaping transformative conversations, and positioning Snowflake‑powered EY solutions that address the most complex challenges facing the Consumer & Health and TMT industries. You will also be expected to embed AI‑driven thinking and tools into every aspect of your sales role—how you prospect, identify patterns, qualify opportunities, orchestrate pursuits, influence buyers, and accelerate time‑to‑close—serving as a model for modern, AI‑enabled enterprise selling at EY. Key Responsibilities Sales Origination Relentlessly originate net‑new pipeline in Consumer & Health and TMT industry groups by identifying unmet needs, emerging priorities, and transformation opportunities Drive sales across three core channels: Direct client origination, Snowflake/EY co‑sell motions, EY account team‑led pursuits Lead early‑stage opportunity identification and qualification, independently shaping pursuits from signal detection through deal maturation Snowflake Alliance Leadership Deeply understand Consumer & Health clients’ most pressing challenges, including enterprise data fragmentation across channels, cloud data modernization and analytics at scale, data governance, privacy, and trust, AI and advanced analytics for personalization, forecasting, and operational optimization, data resiliency, availability, and supply‑chain/clinical transparency Understand Tech, Media, and Telecom clients’ most pressing challenges, including data monetization, customer 360 and AI‑driven personalization, unifying platforms for AI, advanced analytics, real‑time insights, operational efficiency, and cost optimization Translate Snowflake platform capabilities—data sharing, governed data access, analytics, and AI—into business outcomes that resonate with senior Consumer & Health and TMT executives Build trusted executive relationships that position EY as a strategic transformation partner, for Snowflake and beyond Industry Impacts Strong understanding of Consumer & Health and TMT organizations’ key business drivers, including growth, margin pressure, supply‑chain complexity, customer or patient expectations, and regulatory requirements Translate Snowflake capabilities into high‑value outcomes, such as consumer and patient data unification, personalization and loyalty enablement, demand forecasting, inventory, and supply‑chain optimization, product, clinical, and operational analytics, AI‑driven insights, data modernization, data monetization, customer 360, AI at scale, operational efficiency Build executive relationships with clients to position EY as a strategic transformation partner for Snowflake and beyond AI‑Enabled Selling & Innovation Infuse AI into the full sales lifecycle, including account and opportunity analytics, intelligent prospecting and prioritization, pattern recognition across pipeline and buying signals, AI‑supported storytelling, proposal shaping, pursuit orchestration, digital sales agents Champion AI‑enabled EY and Snowflake solutions with credibility, demonstrating technical fluency and business impact Serve as a role model for modern, AI‑forward sales execution, helping elevate sales effectiveness across teams Market Leadership & Collaboration Deep sector and Snowflake technology expertise, translating knowledge into enterprise‑scale transformations that deliver measurable business outcomes Be the face of EY’s Snowflake Alliance within EY’s Consumer & Health business and the face of EY to Snowflake’s C&H and TMT teams Envision and activate a multi‑alliance ecosystem, positioning EY as the firm that orchestrates partners, platforms and services to unlock new growth opportunities for clients Orchestrate cross‑service line and cross‑functional teams to bring the best of EY to pursuit opportunities Coach and influence account teams and peers through active leadership in the market—not authority alone Skills & Attributes for Success Hunter mindset with a strong bias for action, curiosity, and persistence Exceptional executive presence with the ability to influence senior client, EY, and Snowflake stakeholders Proven ability to navigate and succeed in a highly matrixed, alliance‑driven environment Consultative selling style—trusted advisor, not transactional seller Strategic thinker with the ability to connect technology to business outcomes Comfortable leveraging data and AI insights to guide decisions and storytelling To Qualify, You Must Have 10+ years of quota‑carrying sales experience in professional services, technology, and/or enterprise solutions Demonstrated success as a net‑new business hunter, not solely an account or alliance manager Direct experience & success selling to Consumer & Health and TMT clients and deep expertise in the key issues and opportunities facing those industries Strong Snowflake ecosystem experience, including co‑sell and channel‑led motions Deep knowledge of the Snowflake platform Experience with the broader Snowflake partner ecosystem and how Snowflake fits into a multi‑vendor landscape Prior experience selling at a Big Four firm or large global systems integrator Exceptional client relationship management and executive communication skills Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) Ideally, You’ll Also Have Technical background or delivery/program leadership experience Experience selling large, complex, multi‑stakeholder transformation programs Strong coaching and mentoring capability Proven team‑selling experience across alliances and solution teams Willingness to travel up to 50% What we offer you Comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including performance‑based incentives, medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Hybrid model, with 40-60% in‑person collaboration expected for external, client‑serving roles. Flexible vacation policy: choose how much vacation time you need, and receive time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence to support well‑being. EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law. EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities. 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