Regional Sales Director

Freddie Mac; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in telecommunications is seeking a Regional Sales Director responsible for driving sales growth and client retention. The role involves managing customer relationships, conducting business reviews, and collaborating with strategic partners to provide next-generation services. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of sales experience in Telecom or related industries, strong organizational and interpersonal skills, and a passion for customer satisfaction.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Commuter Benefits

401K Match

Unlimited PTO

Generous Parental Leave

Qualifications

• 5 years relevant sales experience in Telecom, Cloud, Data Center, Managed Services.
• Extremely well organized with strong attention to detail.
• Experience meeting scheduled deadlines, able to manage multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Drive sales growth and retain clients through technology reviews and upselling.
• Collaborate with account managers to meet sales revenue targets.
• Create and deliver polished sales proposals and RFP responses.

Skills

Sales Experience

Interpersonal Skills

Presentation Skills

Organizational Skills

Technologically Savvy

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher

Tools

CRM Software

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Overview:

This role is responsible for driving sales growth and retaining clients while providing and recommending next generation telecommunications, data center, cloud, and managed services solutions to new and existing customers. The Regional Sales Director will work closely with Avant's National Strategic Partners and will further develop and sell additional services into a set base of customers. The Regional Sales Director will enhance the customer experience by executing regular technology reviews, growing and retaining various clients by upselling the latest hybrid cloud technologies in the marketplace and managing the day-to-day customer relationship. This person will be the primary point of contact for clients who have previously purchased these services.

Employees located in the Greater Chicagoland Area or Dallas/Frisco area are currently expected to work from the office 1 day per week; however, this is subject to change.

Responsibilities:
• Support the sales and development of existing and net new business opportunities within a defined base of existing clients
• Collaborate closely with the National Strategic Partner account managers, field sellers, team managers, and internal sellers to meet or exceed sales revenue targets
• Grow existing customer share by introducing new telecommunications, data center, cloud, and managed services solutions to clients
• Work closely with the existing sales team to define a transition plan to retain and grow recently sold clients
• Attain monthly and quarterly portfolio renewal contracts related to revenue goals
• Establish and cultivate a solid working relationship with vendor partners
• Establish a framework and recurring cadence with the sales and overlay teams to execute regular quarterly business reviews with customers
• Demonstrate a strong and effective knowledge of all telecommunications, data center, cloud, and managed service solutions in the Avant portfolio. Fluency in the contrasting differences between each solution and ability to articulate those differences based on a client's requirements and sales opportunity
• Provide strong existing client management and outgoing business development efforts to optimize effective market coverage to exceed sales targets and reduce client attrition
• Help to create client-facing business development activities, perform demand generation, and perform all follow-up to business development activities
• Coordinate prospect meetings, teleconferences, and communications
• Participate in client seminars and workshops
• Create and deliver polished sales proposals and RFP responses
• Engage regularly with VAR sales leadership (manager, Director and VP) to provide visibility to open opportunities, upcoming renewals, and billed revenue

General Internal Sales Activities
• Assist with CRM's opportunity entry & initial account set up
• Leverage Internal CRM and customer databases to navigate customer data
• Aid with vendor registration on new opportunities
• Submit pricing requests & formulate responses into quote comparison spreadsheet (presentation)
• Issuing quotes, sales presentations, sales orders, and contract paperwork to Team Leads and/ or customers
• Record recent sales into CRM & Manage monthly revenue reports
• Communicate and provide vendor escalations paths/lists to existing customers
• Support in daily tasks of scheduling customer and deal review calls

Requirements
• 5 years relevant sales experience in (Telecom, Cloud, Data Center, and Managed Services)
• Bachelor's Degree or higher
• Extremely well organized with strong attention to detail
• Technologically savvy; including high familiarity with Word, Excel, PPT and data base applications involving computer use and data entry
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills including consulting, presentation and organizational, oral and written skills - required to present proposals for net new services based on client requirements
• Thorough knowledge of "as-a-service" solutions and business models
• Experience meeting scheduled deadlines
• Works with customers, vendors, and management effectively
• Ability to handle, and simultaneously balance, a wide variety of multiple tasks under short time constraints
• Be able to support others and lead projects as required
• Thrive in an environment that values servant leadership, high efficiency, personal dependability, and organizational commitment

We are looking for someone that is passionate about keeping our customers happy. This person needs to have a positive attitude and will not only achieve sales success but also bring additional value above and beyond the basic job description.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Commuter Benefits
• 401K Match
• Unlimited PTO
• Generous Parental Leave

The information contained in this job description is intended to convey information about the essential functions and requirements of the position. It is not an exhaustive list of the skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the opportunity. In addition, the employee should be able to communicate effectively and in a constructive manner with management, peers, and coworkers.