Corporate Account Manager - Education
Role purpose
To safeguard and grow revenue from allocated Education and Technology accounts through account planning and opportunity management and relationship building, meet annual targets for sales and revenues circa, Drive profitability margins and customer satisfaction
Key accountabilities and decision ownership
Key accountabilities and decision ownership
- Provide account data to the Sales Manager for developing a sales plan and monitoring its implementation.
- Leadership/membership of virtual account teams to meet targets for profitability and revenues.
- Develop contact strategies and regional account development plans (ADP) for each of the allocated accounts.
- Develop a pipeline of prospects which are systematically qualified, managing the decision-making process within allocated accounts to ensure sales prospects are closed.
- Exercise thought leadership at Board level within the allocated accounts, demonstrating an understanding of the business strategies and communications dependencies of the customer; and presenting the compelling value proposition of Telecel Enterprise Sales.
- Identify sales training and development needs and manage skills enhancement for self and the virtual account team.
- Ensure integrated channel management, supported by appropriate systems such as UNIK; use knowledge management to increase the professionalism of account management.
- Full integration of quality management processes within all sales activities for the allocated accounts, ensuring effective deployment on a day-to-day basis.
Core competencies, knowledge, and experience
- Business studies degree or equivalent
- 5 years’ experience of sales /account management in an enterprise solution (preferably in Telecoms)
- Consultative-based selling skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Commercial acumen
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