Account Manager Job PAIX Data Centres
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Job Description
- As Account Manager, you will be responsible for acquiring new clients and closing new MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenues).
- In this role you will operate autonomously, closely collaborating with local Management, Marketing and Operations teams, and with (as appropriate) HQ Marketing, Finance and Legal, mobilizing PAIX resources in achieving its account acquisition and sales objectives.
- You will have authority and discretion to set and negotiate sales terms within the boundaries set by Management.
- Prospective and newly acquired accounts are primarily local, however, can be substantial and high profile. Contact is with all decision makers up to C-suite level.
Specific Responsibilities:
Sales
- Develop and implement effective sales action plans to meet or exceed sales targets
- Analyse market trends, customer needs, and competition to identify growth opportunities and adjust strategies accordingly
- Achieve your MRR target
- Oversee your entire sales process, from lead generation to deal closure, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness
Build relationships
- Proactively create and build relationships with decision-makers up to C-suite level at prospective and newly acquired customers, directly or through leads generated by local Marketing or partners
Scout for new opportunities
- Actively use LinkedIn or other structured social media campaigns and traditional “cold calling”, and prepare for and attend appropriate local industry events to gain appointments, build relationships and increase awareness of PAIX’s value proposition
Negotiate and Close
- Identify, qualify, pursue (design and propose), negotiate and profitably close net new business, in close collaboration with local
- Conduct commercial and customer contract negotiations within own delegated authority and predefined ranges/guidelines
Ensure proper information maintenance in ZohoCRM
- Maintain up to date and accurate information on all customer and sales activity in ZohoCRM
- Manage opportunities in compliance with Sales processes and policies and Sales standards of performance
- Establish and monitor sales pipelines, ensuring accurate forecasting and reporting
Client Relationship Management
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients and strategic partners
- Address customer inquiries, concerns, and escalations in a timely and professional manner
Support immediate post-sales activities as a primary customer contact
- Direct, oversee and support immediate post-sale activity to ensure continuity and satisfactory customer onboarding
Prepare and facilitate customer hand-over
- Hand-over closed business to the Customer Implementation / Operations team
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, IT, or a related field
- 5+ years experience in fast paced B2B Sales, with history of negotiating and closing Tier 1 deals
- Experience as a quota carrying technology sales professional with a proven track record of success selling complex IT hardware and/or software solutions to large enterprises
- Evidenced experience in increasing technology adoption and creating long term transformational account strategies in large, complex accounts
- Proven experience working with and earning the trust of C-level executives both within IT and other lines of business
- Be a hunter, with a history of hitting ambitious targets and thrive on sales targets
- A CRM master, ideally in Zoho CRM, and able to analyze the data to maximize the activities of your sales pipeline
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, complemented by a dynamic and energetic presence
- A seasoned sales professional with a proven track record, capable of bringing your own book of business to our organization
- Excellent teamwork skills
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