Associate High Velocity Sales Account Manager

Aspen Technology; Reading; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Reading is seeking an Inside Sales Account Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for generating revenue by effectively selling the company’s products. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree and experience in sales. Excellent communication skills, a self-starter attitude, and the ability to build relationships are essential. You will work collaboratively with a sales team and aim to meet individual sales targets, showcasing the company’s value to customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience in a lead development or sales role is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.

Responsibilities

• Meet or exceed individual sales quota.
• Build a strong pipeline and progress sales opportunities.
• Negotiate contracts and business terms.

Skills

Communication skills

Sales techniques

Self-motivation

Relationship building

Pipeline management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Salesforce

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

AspenTech is a market leader, providing software that optimizes process manufacturing – including oil and gas, petroleum, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and other industries that manufacture and produce products from a chemical process. The Inside Sales Account Manager (ISAM) will develop an understanding of AspenTech’s value to customers to overachieve sales targets in an assigned, quota-carrying territory. This person will work as a member of a sales team which includes business consulting, customer support and sales operations.

The ISAM role is directly responsible for generating revenue by selling AspenTech’s products using proven sales methodologies taught in an onboarding program. The ISAM role is an opportunity to join an industry-leading team while building a strong foundation of skills centered on our customer’s business goals, needs and value.

Your Impact

• Consistently meet or exceed individual quota.
• An energetic self-starter who is capable of quickly building a strong pipeline.
• Must be results-driven and capable of delivering consistent new business and able to grow existing business.
• Communicate AspenTech’s value proposition by understanding, at a high level, engineering and process manufacturing terminology and concepts, and the business problems that AspenTech’s solutions solve.
• Demonstrate effective selling and presentation techniques to influence the customer.
• Successfully build and progress pipeline through proactive outbound calling efforts to existing customers and prospects:
  • Develop relationships with new prospects by following up on inbound leads and online evaluations; proactive cold calling; following up on outbound marketing campaigns.
  • Displace competitors by calling out to customers that have competitive products currently installed.
  • Renew and grow existing AspenTech footprint within existing accounts.
• Has an understanding of the customer’s buying process.
• Accurately forecast sales achievement.
• Negotiate contracts and business terms and conditions.
• Develop and execute territory plan to maximize revenue.
• Assist in the mentoring and support of junior teammates.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience in a lead development or sales role.
• A positive attitude, personal integrity, highly disciplined and organized, a desire to win and results driven.
• Team oriented, self-starter who can work alone and is willing to be coached in a collaborative manner to achieve team goals.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
• Familiarity with Aspen or similar products a plus in addition to process industry knowledge.
• Personal computer literacy including, Excel, PowerPoint, and CRM tools (Salesforce).