Senior Account Manager, Data Center - Colocations

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Senior Account Manager, Datacenter - Colocations to drive growth across key Data Center accounts in the United States. You will expand relationships, manage pipeline, and lead strategic account planning to deliver scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes building executive-level relationships, coordinating sales strategies, and achieving targets while traveling up to 30% and aligning offerings with customer priorities and long-term plans.

Qualifications

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree required.
• 10+ years in technical sales, engineering, project management, or marketing.
• Experience with Data Center clients and managing account relationships.
• Willingness to travel up to 30%.

Responsibilities

• Develop sales strategies based on customer priorities and long-term plans.
• Define targets and growth margins for assigned accounts.
• Follow a structured process to achieve sales targets.
• Lead account plans and executive relationship strategies.
• Prioritize opportunities and identify targets within account plans.
• Establish and nurture customer relationships with defined strategies.
• Monitor competitor activity and support response strategies.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and guidelines.

Skills

Technical sales

Engineering

Project management

Marketing

Data Center experience

Account management

Travel ability

Education

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Job Description:

Sr. Account Manager, Datacenter - Colocations

The Opportunity

As a Senior Account Manager, you will support Hitachi Energy customers with a focus on strategically important Data Center accounts. You will be responsible for building and expanding customer relationships, managing assigned accounts, supporting sales target achievement, maintaining pipeline management activities, and leading strategic account planning efforts. The role includes representing the full range of products, systems, and services offered to assigned customers, coordinating account planning activities, and helping ensure customer needs and expectations are addressed. You will work with customers to understand their current business priorities and long-term plans, identify and prioritize opportunities, monitor market activity, and develop responses to competitor activity. Through account management, relationship development, and sales planning, you will contribute to the delivery of products, systems, and services that support power grid reliability and ongoing innovation.

Preferred work base locations are Denver, CO, TX, CA, AZ

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Participate in the development of sales strategies by providing customer business priorities and long-term plans.
• Define and propose sales targets and growth margins for assigned accounts.
• Follow a structured process to support achievement of sales targets.
• Lead the development and implementation of account plans.
• Design executive relationship strategies and coverage plans for assigned accounts.
• Prioritize opportunities and identify targets for solution elements within account plans.
• Establish and develop customer relationships based on defined account strategies.
• Monitor competitor activity within assigned accounts and support implementation of response strategies.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Your Background

• Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
• Master’s or bachelor’s degree.
• 10 years’ experience in technical Sales, Engineering, Project Management, and/or Marketing.
• Experience working with clients in the Data Center market.
• Experience building and managing customer account relationships.
• Ability to travel up to 30%. Preferred work base locations are Denver, CO, TX, CA, AZ.

More About Us

You will have opportunities for professional growth through collaboration across customer accounts, sales activities, and account planning initiatives.

• Work on innovative energy technologies through engagement with Hitachi Energy products, systems, and services.
• Collaborate with experienced professionals across sales and customer-facing teams.
• Access learning and development opportunities that support ongoing career growth.
• Receive health and retirement benefits offered by the company.
• Benefit from paid leave and workplace flexibility programs offered by the company.
• $150,900.00 - $226,300.00 USD annual compensation pending work experiences and geographic location

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)-Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Equal Employment Opportunity

Hitachi is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals, including females, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals

with disabilities.

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