Associate Account Manager

Are you ready to learn, grow, and help shape the future of technology? Nokia is seeking an Associate Account Manager to support strategic customer teams serving some of the world's leading cloud providers, AI infrastructure companies, hyperscalers, and enterprise customers. This role is designed for early career professionals interested in developing a long-term career in technology sales, business development, customer strategy, and account management.

Are you ready to learn, grow, and help shape the future of technology? Nokia is seeking an Associate Account Manager to support strategic customer teams serving some of the world's leading cloud providers, AI infrastructure companies, hyperscalers, and enterprise customers. This role is designed for early career professionals interested in developing a long-term career in technology sales, business development, customer strategy, and account management.

As an Associate Account Manager, you will gain exposure to the full sales lifecycle while working alongside experienced account managers, sales engineers, business leaders, and technical experts. You will develop a strong foundation in customer engagement, account planning, business strategy, forecasting, and solution sales while helping customers navigate rapidly evolving technologies including artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, networking, optical transport, and data center transformation.

This position is intended to serve as a development path toward future account management and leadership opportunities within Nokia's Cloud, AI and Hyperscaler.

• This role does not offer sponsorship.

As part of our team, you will:

• Support strategic account teams in achieving customer satisfaction, business growth, and financial objectives across assigned customer accounts.
• Learn to develop and execute account strategies that strengthen customer relationships and drive long term business success.
• Assist in maintaining account plans, customer engagement activities, sales forecasts, and opportunity pipelines using Salesforce and other business tools.
• Collaborate with account managers, sales engineers, solution architects, product teams, and business leaders to support customer initiatives and technology strategies.
• Participate in customer meetings, executive briefings, industry events, and internal planning activities to gain exposure to the full sales lifecycle.
• Conduct research and analysis on customer priorities, market trends, competitive developments, and emerging technologies.
• Support the creation of customer presentations, executive summaries, account reviews, business cases, and strategic planning materials.
• Develop foundational knowledge of cloud infrastructure, AI workloads, networking technologies, optical networking solutions, data center architectures, and digital transformation initiatives.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Marketing, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across both technical and business audiences.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a high level of attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively within cross functional teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Teams.
• Interest in technology, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, networking, digital infrastructure, or enterprise technology markets.
• Ability to travel…