Strategic Account Manager

IBM; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Strategic Account Manager in Bentonville, AR. This role involves engaging strategic enterprise accounts and leading sales opportunities. Candidates should have extensive experience in strategic sales, excellent interpersonal skills, and a Master's Degree. The role offers a dynamic environment focused on cloud solutions and customer success.

Qualifications

• Extensive strategic sales and customer development experience.
• Strong executive presence and interpersonal skills.
• Proven track record of exceeding sales targets.

Responsibilities

• Engage strategic enterprise accounts to demonstrate technology benefits.
• Lead resources and teams around sales opportunities.
• Build a healthy pipeline of revenue for target accounts.

Skills

Strategic sales experience

Relationship management

Problem solving

Forecasting

Cloud solutions experience

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Salesforce

Clari

Gong

Outreach

Slack

Tableau

Job description

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A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your Role And Responsibilities

• Engage new and existing strategic enterprise accounts to demonstrate how they can be more successful with our technology portfolio
• Proactively and efficiently lead resources with dedicated teams, virtual teams, partners, and executive staff around sales opportunities to ensure successful outcomes
• Lead sophisticated enterprise sales campaigns with multiple prospect engagement points in Development, IT Operations, and Security Operations
• Align the overall HashiCorp solution to the customer’s business needs, challenges, and technical requirements
• Execute solution and value selling to existing customer base and new prospects
• Articulate and evangelize the vision and positioning of both the company and products
• Build a healthy pipeline of revenue and new logos for your target accounts
• Accurately forecast business on a weekly cadence
• Accurately qualify opportunities based on MEDDPICC
• Effectively connect with management, legal and deal desk to ensure proper execution of documents and correct process and follow instructions or recommendations set by these teams and company management

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Extensive strategic sales and strategic customer development experience with a track record of closing enterprise deals
• Excellent operational discipline, crafting and completing quarterly and annual business plans and forecasting.
• Strong executive presence, interpersonal skills, and credibility
• Experience working for a high growth company where critical thinking and problem solving were required on daily basis to help contribute to significant business decisions
• Proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding assigned annual/quarterly goals and targets
• Outstanding Salesforce and Clari hygiene along with proficiency using Gong, Outreach, Slack, and Tableau

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