Plains Global Major Account Manager

Position: Great Plains Global Major Account Manager
Location: Bridgeton

* Develops long term sales pipeline to increase the company’s market share in specialized area.
* Use specialty expertise to seek out new opportunities for customer value by expanding and enhancing existing opportunities to build the pipeline in and drive pursuit in specialty area.
* Provide support to the Account managers.
* Set direction for business development and solution replication.
* Creates and grows reference customers.
* Sell complex products or solutions to customers on a partnership basis.
* May act as a dedicated resource to a few strategic accounts.
* Services specialists may also be responsible for selling small outsourcing deals.
* For Services Consultants:
Focus on growing contractual renewals for large accounts with more complexity, to higher- total contract-value renewals.
* Establish a professional, working, and consultative, relationship with the client, including the C- level for mid-to-large accounts by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry.
* Maintain and use overall cross-portfolio knowledge to support account leads with integration of solutions.
* Contribute to enduring executive relationships that establish the company's consultative professionalism and promote its total solution capabilities.
* Maintains expertise on IT at all levels – new applications, maintenance, typical budgets of the CIO’s, typical objectives, measures, metrics.
* Maintains broad market and competitor knowledge to ensure credibility with Customer Executives.
* University or Bachelor’s degree or directly related previous work experience.
* Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota diversity of business customer, and higher level customer interface.
* Prior selling experience includes multiple, diverse set of selling responsibilities.
* Viewed as expert in given field by company and customer.
* Considered a mentor of selling strategy, including designing strategy.
* Typically 12+ years of Technology sales experience.
* Network sales experience required
* Experience selling to Global Major Accounts required
* Is considered a master in knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor’s offerings to be able to sell large, complex solutions.
* Know strengths and weaknesses of key competitors in account and how to leverage this knowledge in the account.
* Uses expertise specialty, consultative solution selling and business development skills to align the client’s business needs with solution.
* In-depth knowledge of client’s business, organizational structure, business processes and financial structure.
* Considerable knowledge of the customer’s infrastructure and architecture.
* Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving services sales in accounts – prospecting, negotiating and closing deals.
* Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving full portfolio including hardware, software and services needed for the customer’s requirements.
* Strategic planning on a business development level; can build an effective business case reflecting the value of an appropriate strategy.
* Balance strategic and tactical pursuits to optimize coverage and develop a predictable revenue stream.
* Uses C-level engagement skills in collaboration with account leads to offer value-add solutions to the clients
* Works effectively with our partners to drive additional revenue.
* Understand and sells high value software solutions.
* Demonstrates the ability to leverage the company's portfolio of products and services to change the playing field against our competition.
* Understands the leverage of services as part of strategic portfolio of products.
* Promotes services as part of all strategic opportunities.
* Maintain knowledge of industry trends, associated solutions, and key partner/ISV solutions.

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