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Strategic Account Manager – Data Center Cooling
Location
New York + 3 moreAll locations: New York, North Carolina, Minnesota, Texas
Posted
8 days ago
Salary
$114.5K - $241.5K / year
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishSalesforce
Job Description
• Maintaining Positive Relationships: Acting as the main point of contact to ensure strategic accounts are satisfied and their business needs are met
• Developing Business Strategies: Creating strategies that benefit the company and its strategic accounts
• Targeting New Accounts: Setting strategies for targeting and penetrating new accounts
• Handling Large Accounts: Leading all aspects of and growing large, sophisticated accounts
• Collaborating Across Functions: Working with cross-functional data solutions partners to drive growth
• Achieving Sales Quotas: Being responsible for meeting sales quotas with strategic accounts
• Negotiating Contracts: Developing and growing sales, negotiating contracts, and ensuring legal compliance
• Understanding Customer Needs: Maintaining relationships to understand customer requirements and developing appropriate solutions
• Providing Forecasts: Offering frequent updates to support the Annual Operating Plan (AOP)
• Identifying New Opportunities: Work with sales and marketing teams to identify new product categories or markets and drive new business opportunities
• Recommending Product Mix: Partnering with product management and marketing to recommend the appropriate product mix and sourcing strategies
• Generating Growth: Selling data solutions with a targeted focus on integrator accounts
• Supporting Growth Accounts: Supporting the business through the generation of new growth accounts while maintaining and developing existing ones
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent data center sales/account management experience
- Ideally, 5+ years in account management or outside sales experience in data center sales; experience should include 2+ years leading strategic accounts
- Ability to sell power distribution, data center Infrastructure products, data center cooling (HDLC), and other electrical products into the data center space
- Knowledge of how a direct-to-customer sales environment operates
- Knowledge in program/project management preferred
- Skills in handling multiple tasks/projects, along with the ability to work in a self-directed manner
- Skills to effectively resolve quality and delivery concerns in a professional and timely manner
- Experience with Salesforce.com or a similar CRM
- A valid driver's license is required
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts
- Short-term and long-term disability benefits
- Critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance
- A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match
- Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection