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Account Director

Manchester, UK

£87,000 + Double OTE + RSU's

About the Role

Proactively generate, qualify and close new business opportunities within your target set of accounts

Responsible for full sales cycle from proactively generating lead to close

Management of the quality of overall deliverables and pursuit strategy throughout the whole sales process

Work closely with Solutions Architects to perform presales feasibility assessments of how well solutions meet the customer requirements and what customisation would be required

Maintain clear business understanding of your customers business needs and how fits in with them – where appropriate drive product teams to develop new propositions.

Building and maintaining strategic account plans for focus accounts

Understand, engage and develop relationships with other partners engaged within Customer base.

Engage with channel partners to find and develop new opportunities

Generate case studies and Customer focussed PR activity to highlight capabilities across it’s prospect base

Requirements

  • Proven direct sales Managed services and Professional services experience

  • 5yrs+ of Acquisition Sales experience, demonstrable in sales attainment credentials

  • Ability to build and gain customer engagement and sign off on strategic account development plans.

  • Demonstrable ability to develop rapport and solution sell into board level contacts within Enterprise businesses

  • Proven successful commercial experience of achieving targets within a strategic sales environment, incorporating value/solutions service selling ideally within the IT/ Technology sector (e.g. Public / private / multicloud, application / platform hosting, managed services, virtualization, datacentre, SaaS, ISP)

  • Proven territory development skills. Must be able to generate, qualify and close business opportunities

  • Strong full life cycle B2B sales experience

  • Proven ability to meet and exceed targets in the shape of KPIs and a monthly revenue quota.

  • Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

  • Excellent rapport building skills via the phone, email and face to face to ensure the effective delivery of proposals

  • Proven ability to prioritise and work on a number of opportunities at any time within a challenging monthly driven cycle. A key area here is the ability to drive longer term strategic opportunities whilst working transactional business to deliver the monthly target


About the Company

A leader in multicloud solutions experts, combining expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. Our client have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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