Technical Account Manager - Kansas City/Midwest

Bentley Systems; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Bentley Systems is seeking a Technical Account Manager to support key accounts in the Midwest. This role involves managing technical relationships, influencing technical roadmaps, and collaborating with various teams. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree, substantial technical sales experience in infrastructure, and strong collaboration skills.

Benefits

Competitive Salary and benefits

Supportive and collaborative environment

Colleague Recognition Awards

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of technical sales experience in the infrastructure industry.
• Strong knowledge of virtualization, cloud computing, storage, networking.
• Understanding of IT and digital practice needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed technical aspects of account plans.
• Manage technical discovery to guide requirements definitions.
• Align with extended Account Advancement team for closure.

Skills

Technical sales experience

Infrastructure software technologies

Project Design lifecycle

Collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Technology

Job description

Technical Account Manager - Kansas City/Midwest

Location: Home-based, Kansas City, MO/KS but open to candidates based in the Midwest, United States.

Position Summary:

Are you ready to start a new journey with a team of energized professionals advancing and connecting the world’s infrastructure? Bentley is looking for you! We are looking for a Technical Account Manager, reporting to Solution Engineering Management to support key Bentley accounts.

As a Technical Account Manager (TAM), you will lead revenue goals with Bentley's strategic accounts by managing their technical relationship and strategy. The TAM combines sales methodology, industry knowledge, and technical expertise to align with sales initiatives and advocate for customers within Bentley. By collaborating with sales, product, user success, consulting, and marketing teams, the TAM ensures a comprehensive understanding of the customer's environment, challenges, and needs. The role focuses on fostering long-term partnerships, customer expansion, and new acquisitions, aligning customers' business projects and technical goals with Bentley's vision and strategy.

Your Day-to-Day:

• Technical Account Plan Development and Management: In partnership with Account Managers, you will develop the detailed technical aspects of account plans and execute a strategy for closing business, supporting growth in ARR and usage of products.
• Technical Roadmap Influence: Develop the required knowledge of customers' business processes, workflows, and technical requirements to provide insight and guidance required to position the value of current and new Bentley solutions.
• Technical Discovery & Solution Fit: Manage technical discovery to guide the formulation of requirements definitions, scope documents, customer needs studies, and process and project assessments for sales opportunities.
• Customer Closure: Align with the extended Account Advancement team to secure business and technical closure of the proposed solution. Manage technical evaluations, define solution architecture, facilitate product demonstrations, and "pilot" projects. Provide technical validation and assess proposed solutions' feasibility, correctness, and completeness; apply best practices in solving business problems.
• Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams (Sales leadership, Success Management, Product Development, and other Solution Engineering team members) to acquire the correct talent/resource for opportunities. Provide feedback to Product Teams via established channels to improve products.
• Internal Leadership: Interact and communicate with the business groups at Bentley to ensure that needs are met. Support sales opportunities and account planning, execute the Bentley Sales Process, and use Salesforce to document key activities. Connect with relevant stakeholders and users in the account during engagements and gather account-specific intelligence, feedback, and insights and share with account teams for incorporation into account strategy and plans. Collaborate with account teams to develop account strategies and attend regular account team meetings, as required, at an appropriate cadence determined by the account strategy. Attend and support escalation calls, where appropriate and required by Escalation leads.
• Foster a culture of “One Bentley” and collaborating with internal stakeholders in a manner that benefits the Account.
• Travel to customer sites up to 50% of the time may be required.
• This is a full-time role.
• Requires sitting or standing at will while performing work on a computer (or any other physical requirements ).
• This role requires communication with Managers, peers and other colleagues of the company in person, and/or by utilizing Microsoft Teams chat, calling and meeting functions.

What You Bring to The Team:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Technology, or a related field; preferably an infrastructure-related background.
• 10-15 years of technical sales experience in the infrastructure industry, with additional knowledge or experience in the Engineering, Construction, or Design industry.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure software technologies, such as virtualization, cloud computing, storage, networking, and security as they relate to transportation, water, energy, mining, or building infrastructure.
• Proven Project Design lifecycle, coordination, and estimation workflow skillsets.
• Experience deploying new technology into a workforce to inspire innovation, change, and efficiency.
• Understanding of IT, and digital practice needs and pains.
• Effectively collaborate with teams leveraging communication and project management methods to define objectives and deliver focus.
• Independent judgment, creativity, and strong problem-solving skills using data to drive decisions.
• Deep knowledge of Bentley Systems solutions.
• An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction.
• Competitive Salary and benefits.
• The opportunity to work within a global and diverse international team.
• A supportive and collaborative environment.
• Colleague Recognition Awards.

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About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities. Our offerings, powered by the iTwin Platform for infrastructure digital twins, include MicroStation and Bentley Open applications for modeling and simulation, Seequent’s software for geoprofessionals, and Bentley Infrastructure Cloud encompassing ProjectWise for project delivery, SYNCHRO for construction management, and AssetWise for asset operations. Bentley Systems’ 5,200 colleagues generate annual revenues of more than $1 billion in 194 countries.
www.bentley.com

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About the company

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, is an American-based software development company that develops, manufactures, licenses, sells and supports computer software and services for the design, construction, and operation of infrastructure.

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