Job Overview
The Strategic Sales Manager is a highly visible position that is responsible for developing new business for our mid-size prospects. The Manager will target companies with mid-size fleets and employ consultative selling skills to win new accounts in the region. He or she will execute business development strategies and manage all aspects of a multi-level sales cycle. The Strategic Sales Manager may be based in a major metropolitan area within a given territory; working from a home office with 50% of the time is spent out in the field. Most of the travel involves day trips by car, plus six or seven nights out-of-town per month.
Job Description:
Job Overview
The Strategic Sales Manager is a highly visible position that is responsible for developing new business for our mid-size prospects. The Manager will target companies with mid-size fleets and employ consultative selling skills to win new accounts in the region. He or she will execute business development strategies and manage all aspects of a multi-level sales cycle. The Strategic Sales Manager may be based in a major metropolitan area within a given territory; working from a home office with 50% of the time is spent out in the field. Most of the travel involves day trips by car, plus six or seven nights out-of-town per month.
Key Responsibilities - Essential Functions
- Successfully win new business to increase sales. Negotiate contract terms and product pricing to attain mutually beneficial business relationships with new clients.
- Identify key decision-makers and stakeholders and develop multi-level relationships within target companies. Establish credibility as a knowledgeable industry resource.
- Determine credit worthiness of target accounts and establish priority prospects.
- Manage the sales process to maintain momentum, create a sense of urgency, and motivate decision makers to act.
- Collaborate with internal resources to develop and execute effective sales strategies.
- Prepare and present winning sales proposals that address the specific needs of the prospective client and differentiate the unique service solutions that are offered.
- Support the new account integration process and partner with the designated Account Team to ensure new clients receive the full benefit of the established contract.
- Maintain an accurate, up-to-date database on all prospects. Report relevant information regarding potential new accounts, target companies, and competitor’s practices.
- Achievement of sales goals and annual plans.
Leadership Responsibilities
- Analytic skills – effectively coach prospective clients through the complex financial issues and value economics of $100 million+ sourcing decisions.
- Manage the sales process to maintain momentum, create a sense of urgency, and motivate decision makers to act.
Competencies - Skills
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Comfortable working in a collaborative fashion with the VP of Strategic Sales and other functional leaders. Must know when and how to bring in senior management to enhance the sales process.
- Experience selling value versus price, excellent solution selling skills.
- Enthusiasm – stay positive and be a port in the storm during the most difficult situations.
- Strategic thinking –navigate complex deals with complex issues and relationships.
- Versatility – function skillfully across a wide variety of issues and people.
- Personality – build relationships with key decision influencers across prospective clients and with key resources within the company.
- Strong negotiation and influence management skills, excellent customer relationship skills. Extraordinarily strong customer service orientation.
- Excellent presentation and facilitation skills, superb written, verbal, and people skills.
- Able to pursue multiple customers at once, high organization and prioritization skills.
- Experience and comfortable with 50% travel.
- Passion for winning - winning new business is in the end the performance metric that really matters.
- Able to demonstrate self-discipline to work without direct supervision.
- Valid driver's license with good record.
Education And Experience
- Bachelor's degree (BA) or related experience.
- Five (5) plus years of sales experience in industry with similar characteristics.
CORE VALUES
- Integrity – Always act with integrity and honesty.
- One Team – Treat others with dignity and respect; act as a cohesive, inclusive and accountable team that is making a difference.
- Innovation – Drive continuous improvement, spark creativity and embrace next generation thinking.
- Customer Success – Ensure that customer and driver success is at the heart of everything we do.
CULTURAL ATTRIBUTES
- Discipline Drives Quality – Plan the Trip: Think proactively, hold a high bar, follow through by leveraging experience and systems. To produce quality outcomes, we must be intentional and deliberate in everything we do, from big bets to daily execution.
- Intellectually Curious – Fuel Your Minds: Be bold, challenge assumptions, think differently, look outside the box. Strive to unlock your own thinking and create new possibilities.
- Commit and Deliver – Own It: Take responsibility for your work, from start to finish, and be accountable for the results. Think and act like an owner of the business.
- Relationships Matter – Share the Ride: Trust is central, both with key internal and external stakeholders. Relationships are not a side effect of work but a driver of success.
JOB SPECIFICATIONS, PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT
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