Time ManagementNegotiationPresentation SkillsSales
About this role
Role Overview
Serves as the overall account lead for a major service provider in the Dallas and NJ territories.
Understands the client’s key business and IT challenges and requirements.
Focused on driving value for the client, while maximizing revenue and margin for the company.
Specializes in value or volume specialty (computers, servers, storage, services, printers) with focus on growing the base business, complex solutions, and new business opportunities.
Is supported primarily by pre-sales and inside sales resources.
Provides highly innovative solutions.
Develops account plans and long-term sales pipeline to increase the company's market share.
Focuses on larger deals/opportunities and value and/or volume portfolio management and selling a range of company products and solutions.
Works with management to develop future business plans; independently determines methods for achieving plans.
Extensive time spent working with and leveraging a diverse set of external partners.
Requirements
University or Bachelor's degree; Advanced degree or MBA preferred.
Prior selling experience includes networking infrastructure and transport to service providers.
Typically 10+ years of experience as referenced above.
Experience in a related industry.
Knowledge and Skills: Have excellent time management skills and presentation skills.
Strong high-level customer management relationship building, especially working with executives in lines of business, and sometime board level.
High level of negotiation skills at high level customer management.
Adept at advanced sales negotiations and positioning solution value under pricing pressures from customer IT and procurement professionals
proactive presentation of value solutions.
Extensive partner organization intelligence and ability to work closely with multiple partners, to engage the client in business solutions.
Uses financial-selling techniques with the client and company internal to position value and advance sales motions.
Expertise in managing end
to-end sales processes in complex, large deals.
Relevant knowledge of client's industry; keeps abreast of trends and lead discussions with IT on strategic directions and linking discussions.
Strong knowledge of the company's breadth of solutions and engages specialist resources as needed.
Ability to understand the customer's business issues and translate to the company's solutions.
Ability to prioritize and drive strategic sales activity on a complex, large deal basis.
Excels in competitive selling skills. Sell across platform and specialty.