Commercial Acct Manager II

Sales Specialists & Consultants are product, services, software or solution specialists that are responsible for leading pursuit in their assigned focus areas. Collaborates with and supports Account Managers and provides specialist expertise within the sales team. Drives proactive campaigns to build the pipeline, uses specialized knowledge and skills to prospect, qualify, negotiate and close opportunities. May have named accounts allocated, cover a designated geography, or may be allocated to one high-potential, competitive attack account.,

• Coordinates/Owns account plans for commercial accounts in the account planning process.
• Focuses on deals/opportunities and value and/or volume portfolio management, and selling a range of company products and solutions.
• Uses specialty to leverage existing opportunities in account.
• Establishes a professional working relationship (up to the executive level) with clients, focusing mainly on specialist buyers, e.g. IT.
• Analyzes win/loss rates and drive recommendation to improve ratios
• Works with and leverages external partners to deliver solution sale.
• Refers company volume products and certain value products to other specialists or partners as needed.
• Utilizes the support of pre- sales and specialists, and depending on account coverage with inside sales to lead deal pursuit.
• Responsible for achieving/managing quota based on regional guidelines
• Enters and is accountable for all opportunities in pipeline tools and processes. Recommends and Implements Pipeline management practices.
• Ability to implement margin recovery activities/strategies in full ownership of the account or in partial ownership depending on account coverage.
• Acts as a first interface for owned accounts in collaboration with members of global business teams.
• May Train/Coach and lead Inside account reps/Inside Sales
• Contributes to or designs sales policy and strategy for assigned business segment.
  
  University or Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Detailed knowledge of key customer types or customers on given products.
• Typically 3-5 years of experience as referenced above.
• Account management experience required
• Experience in product specialty (computers, printers, servers, storage)
• Possible experience in industry.
• Inside Account experience of large commercial of large complexity.
Knowledge and Skills:
• Solid IT acumen on how to align with specific company services or product lines.
• Partner organization intelligence aligned with partner management skills.
• Assess solution feasibility from a technical and business perspective to determine qualify- in/quality-out status.
• Conceptualizes and articulates well-targeted solutions in area of specialty - from proposal to contract sign off.
• Negotiation skills and ability to frame the value proposition for the customer.
• Ability to utilize resources effectively in or order to pursue revenue generating opportunities in the account.
• Ability to understand the customer's business issues and translate to company solutions.
• Enough knowledge about product, services and client's core business, to be able to sell transactionally, as well as generate leads.
• Ability to prioritize and drive strategic sales activity on multi-product basis or solution basis.
• Competitive selling skills.
Additional Skills: Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Assertiveness, Bias, Building Rapport, Buyer Personas, Coaching, Complex Sales, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Interactions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Industry Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 6 more}

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