Sales Executive III

Career Level Summary

• Career-developing seller.
• Possesses a working understanding of company products/services and utilizes sales techniques effectively.
• Completes moderately complex sales with minimal supervision.
• Requires working knowledge and experience in own job discipline and broadens capabilities.
• Continues to build knowledge of the company, processes and customers.
• Performs a range of assignments related to job discipline.
• Uses prescribed guidelines or processes in analyzing situations.
• Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction

Critical Competencies

• Customer Knowledge: Capitalizes on deep understanding of current customers organization structure, business processes, strategic objectives and challenges in order to anticipate and meet customer needs.
• Relationship Management: Cultivates relationships with broad groups inside the organization (e.g., leadership team, business partners) and externally with key constituents, partners and allies (e.g., government, industry groups); provides recommendations for managing challenging relationships.
• Negotiation and Influence: Persuades others by supporting ideas with logical arguments/data, recognizing what information to share and when to share it; builds support to resolve issues and achieve the most favorable outcome for the company.
• Technical Knowledge of Products: Demonstrates knowledge of market segments as well as market data trends and makes recommendations accordingly.
• Systems Thinking: Leads collaboration with key stakeholders and contributes subject matter expertise to develop unique solutions to complex issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Other Incidental tasks related to the job, as necessary.
• Guides customer satisfaction, account retention and growth by collaborating with customers and internal teams.
• Develops strong relationships with executives and influencers to expand and implement effective, enterprise-wide strategies.
• Owns forecasting and account planning on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis.
• Leads a defined sales process for all Rackspace solutions.
• Cultivates new business opportunities for new and/or existing accounts.
• Meets with qualified leads to better understand customer needs and provide proposals.
• Leads efforts to create proposal for solution to prove value add.
• Leads the negotiation, closure, and documentation of customer renewals for customers.
• Works with Customer Success Manager to invest in higher service levels for a customer with low MRR but high wallet and to identify and pursue opportunities for upgrades, cross-selling, and upselling.
• Creates advocates out of customers by delivering fanatical customer experience and leverages customer advocates to drive additional sales.
• Utilizes and updates CRM tools to track all pertinent account information and sales progress as well as forecast and prioritize to achieve quarterly goals.

Skills

• Able to effectively communicate over the phone, through email, and face-to-face.
• Able to overcome a moderate level of resistance that will be encountered early in the sales process.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.
• Able to communicate the same message in a different way to both technical and business[1]oriented people.
• Superior ability to adapt messages to stakeholders at all levels of the company, from CTO level to front-line technical support.
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills. Goal oriented with superior work ethic.
• Able to influence others in decision-making.
• Superior negotiation skills and the ability to negotiate with many personality types.
• Effective time management skills and the ability to work numerous projects at once.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a high level of patience and the ability to nurture.
• Able to develop and manage internal and external business relationships of various temperaments, talents and convictions.