Alliance Sales Executive, Associate Director, Snowflake - Industrials & Energy

Alliance Sales Executive, Associate Director, Snowflake - Industrials & Energy

Location: Houston Other locations: Anywhere in Region Salary: Competitive

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About Sales & Strategic Pursuits (S&SP)

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 alliancesdelivering differentiated value through a deeply client?centric culture.

The 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 rolefocused on originating net?new opportunities, building pipeline, and closing sales through deep partnership with Snowflake and direct engagement with Industrial Products & Energy clients, including O&G, P&U, Industrial Products, Mobility and Aerospace & Defense.

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 Energy industries. You will also be expected to embed AI?driven thinking and tools into every aspect of your sales rolehow you prospect, identify patterns, qualify opportunities, orchestrate pursuits, influence buyers, and accelerate time?to?closeserving as a model for modern, AI?enabled enterprise selling at EY.

Key Responsibilities

• Sales Origination
  • Relentlessly originate net?new pipeline in Energy 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
  • Demonstrate deep understanding of I&E clients' most pressing challenges, including: Fragmented operational, engineering, and commercial data across upstream, midstream, and downstream value chains
  • Cloud data modernization across legacy operational systems, historians, and enterprise platforms
  • Data governance, security, and trust across regulated, safety?critical, and geographically distributed environments
  • Advanced analytics and AI enablement for asset performance, forecasting, and optimization
  • Data resiliency, availability, and reliability to support mission?critical operations and grid / production stability
  • Translate Snowflake platform capabilitiessecure data sharing, governed data access, advanced analytics, and AIinto business outcomes that resonate with senior Energy executives
  • Build trusted executive relationships that position EY as a strategic transformation partner, for Snowflake and beyond
• Industry Impact
  • Demonstrate strong understanding of I&E organizations' key business drivers, including: operational efficiency and asset reliability, margin pressure and cost optimization, decarbonization, energy transition, and sustainability commitments, regulatory, environmental, and safety requirements, Supply chain complexity and market volatility
  • Translate Snowflake capabilities into high?value outcomes, such as: Enterprise data unification across operations, trading, finance, and sustainability Asset performance management and predictive maintenance Demand, production, and price forecasting Grid modernization, resiliency, and outage analytics Emissions tracking, ESG reporting, and sustainability analytics AI?driven insights to improve efficiency, safety, and decision?making Enterprise data modernization, unifying manufacturing, ERP, IoT, and operational data into a scalable cloud data platform Data monetization and AI use cases (e.g., predictive maintenance, demand forecasting, digital twins, supply chain optimization) Operational efficiency and resilience through real-time analytics across production, logistics, and asset performance
  • Build executive relationships with clients to position EY as a strategic transformation partner for Snowflake and beyond, focused on aligning data strategy with growth, cost optimization, and innovation priorities
• 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, and pursuit orchestration Integrating and leveraging digital sales agents across the entire sales lifecycle Champion AI?enabled EY and Snowflake solutions with credibility, demonstrating both 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, with the ability to translate that knowledge into enterprise-scale transformations that deliver measurable business outcomes. Be the face of EY's Snowflake Alliance within EY's I&E businesses and the face of EY to Snowflake Energy and Industrial Products teams This role requires an individual who can envision and activate a multi?alliance ecosystem, helping position EY as the firm that orchestrates partners, platforms and services to unlock new growth and transformation 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 marketnot 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 styletrusted 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 I&E clients and deep expertise in the key issues and opportunities facing I&E clients 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 Look For

Successful Alliance Sales Executives at EY are growth creators. You proactively shape demand, pursuits and win strategies, bringing differentiated points of view, to help clients re?imagine what's possible through technologyparticularly AI?powered transformation. You are digitally fluent, AI?enabled, and deeply connected across your clients' ecosystems. You collaborate to design the right solutions while challenging assumptions and elevating conversationsfrom technology to mission impact.

What We Offer You

At EY, we'll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more . We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $221,410 to $280,070 plus participation in an incentive compensation program applicable to Sales Executives. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $265,650 to $318,290 plus participation in an incentive compensation program applicable to Sales Executives. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k)