Senior Account Executive

WM; Fort Collins (CO); Hybrid; USD 63,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Stock purchase plan

401(k)

Paid vacation, holidays, and personal/

Job summary

WM is seeking a Senior Account Executive to prospect and close sales with new customers while maintaining existing relationships to drive revenue growth. The SAE will navigate contract terms, educate customers on agreements, and secure commitments during face-to-face interactions.

The role emphasizes site visits and a hybrid work pattern. Responsibilities include expanding billable value, managing a robust sales pipeline, and meeting annual targets while ensuring customer satisfaction and

Qualifications

• 4 years of direct B2B sales experience including cold calling and phone-based prospecting.
• Bachelor's Degree or higher, or equivalent work experience as stated.
• Strong negotiation and relationship-building capabilities to maintain and grow accounts.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and grow billable value in assigned accounts; prevent losses and expand revenue with new services and products.
• Initiate and manage B2B sales relationships; develop prospect plans and maintain a sales pipeline.
• Meet or exceed sales goals; resolve customer issues and ensure high satisfaction.

Skills

B2B sales

Prospecting

Closing

Account management

Negotiation

Customer relationship management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma / GED with 4 years experience

Job description

I. Job Summary

The Senior Account Executive (SAE) role is responsible for prospecting and closing sales to new customers to achieve budgeted sales goals. This position develops and implements sound selling strategies that ensure revenue growth at target or greater profitability levels by selling to new customers. Additionally, the role is responsible for managing existing business relationships in order to achieve budgeted sales and price goals by developing and implementing sound retention strategies, utilizing strong negotiation efforts to preserve business, and securing contract agreements from previously non-contracted customers. The Senior Account Executive will "save, secure, and convert" by handling all customer cancellation requests, providing ongoing education of contract details to existing customers, and by obtaining customer contract commitments during face‑to‑face interactions. All customer service escalations within the defined territory will be resolved through this position. SAEs are responsible for maintaining and growing billable value in their assigned accounts.

This position will require the employee to conduct customer site visits the majority of the week with the rest of the week being work from home.

II. Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Senior Account Executives are responsible for maintaining and growing billable value in their assigned accounts; preventing customer account losses and growing billable value by selling permanent new waste streams, new services, and new products to current and prospective customers.
• Initiate business‑to‑business sales relationships.
• Responsible for prospecting and closing sales opportunities to achieve budgeted sales goals by developing and implementing sound selling strategies.
• Manage prospects by developing sound prospect development plans and maintaining key information in the prospect database. Maintain sales pipeline (both in terms of quantity and quality) to achieve new sales goals.
• Minimize most revenue and accounts by maintaining SSDO relationship health standards and diffusing cancellation requests. Meet or exceed sales call activity goals for proactive account retention.
• Increase revenue and profitability by executing sound plans on retention calls to improve the customers’ service and/or profitability.
• Establish and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Propose customer solutions that comply with appropriate local, state and federal regulations. Communicate to and work with the Area Sales Managers to resolve unique customer issues.
• Demonstrate knowledge of customers’ needs, pricing and competition; effectively communicate pricing and service strategies; proactively engage other WM business opportunities, referring internally as appropriate.
• Acquire in-depth industry and company knowledge in order to prepare complex proposals and make recommendations on equipment optimization and leasing options.
• Maintain current knowledge of internal sale strategies and operational capabilities, and external market trends.
• Work closely and effectively communicate with Plant Managers and Brokerage Account Managers to assist in upgrading materials to increase profitability and achieve plant goals.
• Other duties as assigned.

III. Qualifications

• Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree (accredited) or in lieu of degree
• High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and 4 years of relative work experience
• 4 years of work experience in direct business‑to‑business sales, cold calling, and phone-based prospecting.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Prior experience actively pursuing business leads

IV. Physical Requirements

Listed below are key points regarding physical demands, physical and occupational risks, and the work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Office: This job primarily operates in a professional office environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, copy machines, etc.

Pay: The expected base pay range for this hybrid position is $63,000 - $72,000. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific salary offered to a successful candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for incentive pay.

• Benefits At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short-term disability. In addition, we offer a stock purchase plan, company matching on a 401(k), and more. Employees also receive paid vacation, holidays, and personal days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.