Sales Executive - (SLED) State, Local, Education - New England - Remote

Pailin Group Psc; Massachusetts; A distancia; USD 99.000 - 230.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k with company match

Paid time off

Descripción de la vacante

A leading technology services firm is seeking a Sales Executive to drive business in the State, Local, and Education sectors. The role requires 5-10 years of experience in consultative selling, with a strong understanding of information technology. This position is remote but candidates must be commutable to the New England region. Key responsibilities include developing business connections, creating account plans, and supporting proposal teams. Competitive benefits, including health insurance and retirement plans, are offered.

Formación

• 5-10 years of experience in State and Local government and Education sectors.
• Strong relationships with state and local government administrations.
• Expertise in selling complex managed services and IT outsourcing solutions.

Responsabilidades

• Develop a pipeline of new business contacts and conduct progress reviews.
• Create account plans with demand generation strategies for public entities.
• Support proposal delivery teams and update Salesforce with opportunity statuses.

Conocimientos

Information Technology Understanding

Consultative Selling

C-Level Relationship Building

Presentation Skills

Negotiation Skills

Herramientas

Salesforce

Descripción del empleo

$99,000/yr - $230,000/yrRemoteFull-timeMid-Senior level
Sales Executive – State, Local & Education – (100% Remote but must be commutable to New England region and Capitols)

The ideal candidate has 5-10 years of experience and strong relationships in State and Local government and Education, possibly as part of the State or local government administrations, agencies or departments. Additionally, a strong understanding of Information Technology is highly desired as this position will be seeking to ultimately sell technology services and offerings to these entities with a primary role of generating, qualifying, and closing new business for the company.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop a pipeline of new business contacts and opportunities and conduct regular progress reviews with immediate leadership.
• Create account plans with detailed demand generation strategies for states, cities, counties and educational institutions (Public Entities) and a plan to grow existing relationships and expand to grow new relationships.
• Introduce other company executive leadership to existing relationships and new contacts.
• Be intimate with the Public Entities budget processes, specifically understanding budget that is earmarked for Information Technology and bring opportunities forward and coordinate client meetings based on findings.
• Work months in advance to understand upcoming Requests for Proposals (RFPs), influence specific requirements where possible for the benefit of the organization and bring to the pursuit process far in advance of the RFP issue date.
• Understand the different contracting vehicles available for all the Public Entities and work to ensure the organization is on each vehicle where applicable. Promote these vehicles to prospects as a potential method to procure services without necessarily going through a formal RFP process.
• Develop a strong understanding of organizational offerings for Public Entities and promote these to the Public Entities. Also learn about and establish relationships with other organizational Group entities and jointly work together to identify and close new business.
• Support pursuit and proposal delivery teams throughout the defined pursuit process as a team player, striving to assist the team however needed to execute the overall pursuit process.
• Work closely with Delivery groups and Marketing to support go-to-market plans and demand generation activities for vertical area.
• Work with vendor partners to jointly develop business opportunities and close new business.
• Contribute to the organization’s knowledge base of presentations, proposals, etc. and share sales tools that are re‑usable for others.
• Update and maintain a detailed funnel of opportunities in Salesforce and provide status reports to ensure current visibility of activities, highlighting areas requiring practice area support and resource needs to meet sales objectives.
• Develops and executes goals and strategies within sales area.
• Own the strategic direction and executive leadership their assigned territory or domain

Job Level Specific Duties

• Maintain a senior to expert level of knowledge about the State, Local and Education Agencies in New England.
• Sells primarily complex managed services, full IT Outsourcing solutions, application services and industry vertical solutions.
• Seek to be recognized as a thought leader on the industry, the organization’s business model and competitors.
• Interface and successfully influence multiple C-level executives within the customer organization.
• Sponsor and institutionalize new and innovative ways of working in teams to meet customer needs/sales objectives.
• Be guided by brand and organization overall sales strategies.
• Model organizational and industry standards in achievement of sales goals.
• Maintain contact at CEO, CIO, CTO, CISO, CTO, Executive Director and other key decision makers.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of a strong understanding of Information Technology, ideally how it applies to Public Entities for State, Local and Education Agencies in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, etc….
• 5-10 years in a consultative selling role able to identify and address client issues within SLED in New England.
• 5-10 years C-Level selling and relationship building experience within SLED in New England.

Minimum Education and Certifications

Not specified.

Other Skills

• Advanced Public Entities industry and service solution knowledge.
• Advanced understanding of customer’s decision‑making process, goals, objectives and strategies.
• Advanced business and financial acumen.
• Advanced ability to assess potential sales opportunities and develop value propositions.
• Advanced presentation and negotiation skills.

This position is eligible for company benefits that will depend on the nature of the role offered. Company benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally‑required benefits.