Account Executive
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Job Summary
Account Executive
*Candidates for this role can be located in one of the following areas: Sydney Melbourne Brisbane or Auckland New Zealand
The Account Executive prospects maintains and expands relationships with strategically important large customers. Assigned to three to five Vertical Markets the Account Executive is responsible for achieving sales quota and assigned strategic vertical markets objectives. The Account Executive represents the entire range of company products and services to assigned markets while leading the customer account planning cycle and ensuring assigned markets needs and expectations are met by the company.
The Account Executive reports to the Regional Director.
Job Responsibilities
- Establishes productive professional relationships with key personnel in assigned vertical markets.
- Promotes/sells/secures orders from existing and prospective customers through a relationship-based approach.
- Coordinates the involvement of company personnel including support service and management resources in order to meet performance objectives and customers expectations.
- Meets assigned targets for profitable sales volume and strategic objectives in assigned markets
- Proactively leads a joint company-strategic account planning process that develops mutual performance objectives financial targets and critical milestones for a one and three-year period.
- Proactively assesses clarifies and validates customer needs on an ongoing basis.
- Leads solution development efforts that best address customer needs while coordinating the involvement of all necessary company personnel.
Accountabilities and Performance Measures
- Establishes develops and maintains business relationships with current customers and prospective customers in the assigned territory/market segment to generate new business for the organizations products/services.
- Makes telephone calls and in-person visits and presentations to existing and prospective customers.
- Researches sources for developing prospective customers and for information to determine their potential.
- Develops clear and effective written proposals/quotations for current and prospective customers.
- Expedites the resolution of customer problems and complaints.
- Coordinates sales effort with marketing sales management accounting logistics and technical service groups.
- Analyzes the territory/markets potential and determines the value of existing and prospective customers value to the organization.
- Creates and manages a customer value plan for existing customers highlighting profile share and value opportunities.
- Identifies advantages and compares competitors products/services.
- Plans and organizes personal sales strategy by maximizing the Return on Time Investment for the territory/segment.
- Provide management with oral and written reports on customer needs problems interests competitive activities and potential for new products and services.
- Keeps abreast of product applications technical services market conditions competitive activities advertising and promotional trends through the reading of pertinent literature and consulting with marketing and technical service areas.
- Participates in trade shows and conventions.
- Accurate weekly forecasts of sales figures.
Organizational Alignment
- Reports to the Regional Director
- Enlists the support of sales specialists implementation resources service resources and other sales and management resources as needed.
- Closely coordinates company executive involvement with customer management.
- Works closely with Channel Account Managers and Pre-Sales Engineers to ensure customer/business partner satisfaction and problem resolution.
- Maintains high customer satisfaction ratings that meet company standards
- Proactively assesses clarifies and validates customer needs on an ongoing basis.
- Leads solution development efforts that best address customer needs while coordinating the involvement of all necessary company personnel.
- Completes required training and development objectives within the assigned time frame.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science or related engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of commercial software storage or networking engineering experience.
Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions
- This position normally requires 25% time of domestic travel but at times a little more.
- All prospective employees must pass a background check.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Business Development
- Customer Service
- Revenue Growth
- ABC Analysis
- Account Management
- Communication
- CRM
- Excel
- Salesforce
- PMP
- Customer Relationships
- Business Relationships
- Sales Goals
- Sales Process
- CPA
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