Senior Account Manager - SLED

Zayo Group; Indiana (PA); Remote; USD 63,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Senior Account Manager to drive sales and foster relationships across Indiana's public sector. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge communication solutions, including Fiber, SD-WAN, and Security services. The ideal candidate will excel in a fast-paced environment, leveraging their expertise in account management to achieve sales targets while ensuring high customer satisfaction. Join a dynamic team that values collaboration and innovation, and take the next step in your career with a company committed to excellence and growth.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Generous Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Qualifications

• 5+ years of high-volume sales experience managing large account territories.
• Strong understanding of Fiber Infrastructure and managed services.

Responsibilities

• Generate sales revenue by promoting products to targeted accounts.
• Maintain relationships and secure existing revenue commitments.

Skills

Sales Experience

Relationship Building

Communication Skills

Financial Acumen

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Salesforce

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world's most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo's 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Zayo is seeking a Senior Account Manager to support existing and prospective customers across Indiana's State, Local, and Education accounts.

The successful Senior Account Manager will develop customer relationships and drive sales of Fiber, Transport, IP, SD-WAN, Edge, Security, Wi-Fi, VoIP, and managed services to prospects and customers in Zayo's Public Sector segment. The Senior Account Manager is responsible for achieving sales and revenue growth targets through consistent account management and prospecting activities. As a Senior Account Manager, the candidate is also responsible for ensuring high customer satisfaction by maintaining strong relationships with the customer and internal stakeholders at Zayo. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of Fiber Infrastructure, Transport, IP, SD-WAN, Security, Wi-Fi, VoIP, and managed services, and can work on large, complex deals by applying a consultative and trusted advisor approach.

Responsibilities

• Generate sales revenue by actively promoting Zayo products and services to targeted account territories

• Present proposals and manage customers through a strategic sales process

• Maintain current business relationships with customers, securing existing revenue on long-term commitments and or selling net new accounts

• Apply knowledge of customers, industry, and services to achieve revenue objectives

• Work within the Sales team to develop account strategy, solution design, and relationship management on targeted accounts

• Manage high volume of work while maintaining a high degree of responsiveness

• Track, analyze and report on sales performance and activities in Salesforce and other reporting tools

• Provide accurate and timely forecasts of sales opportunities

• Develop and maintain records of customer activity for reporting of sales and forecasts.

• Provide accurate and timely information to management

• Coordinate closely with other departments to ensure customer satisfaction is maintained and revenue objectives met

• Collaboratively work as a part of a team while concurrently performing as an individual with minimal supervision

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent from four-year College; or equivalent combination of education

• Minimum of 5 (five) years of high-volume sales experience managing large account territories

• Minimum of 5 (five) years of previous experience selling to K-12 education customers with a strong understanding of the E-rate program

• Proven ability to build relationships

• Strong financial acumen

• Someone who collaborates well with others

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

• Exceptional customer service and relationship-building/maintaining skills

• Excellent time management and organizational skills

• A sense of urgency and desire to rapidly accelerate results and career with Zayo Group Sales

• Possesses excellent interpersonal skills and can work effectively with a diverse group of personalities; must be approachable, show respect for others, and be able to present data with effective communication and presentation skills

• High tolerance for ambiguity and can work successfully in a matrix management model.

• Strong understanding of account management & the strategic selling process

• Effective problem-solving and interpersonal skills Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint; Salesforce a plus

• General understanding of Zayo Networks value proposition, products, and services such as Fiber Infrastructure, Transport, IP, SD-WAN, Security, Wi-Fi, VoIP, and managed services

• Ability to travel as required by customers

Location: This remote work position will consider applicants that reside in Indiana.

Estimated Base pay range: $63,000 - $84,200 USD/annually.

The base pay range shown is a guideline and reasonable estimate for this role. It takes into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions. Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted range based upon geographic location, work experience, skill level, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Non- sales roles may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive plan. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a sales incentive plan.

Additionally, this position may be eligible for certain benefits, such as health insurance, life insurance, disability retirement plans, paid time off.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan

• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.