Account Manager 2, Enterprise Direct Sales

Job Title

Responsible for providing strategic account management and financial sales leadership for an assigned portfolio of existing mid-market customers. Develop and manage overall account strategies for specific named account customers, including identification of incremental revenue opportunities and retention of embedded base services. Responsible for overall customer relationship management and customer satisfaction in addition to delivering annual customer revenue and retention objectives on a consistent basis, to meet and exceed the end to end experience expectations of these enterprise customers.

Core Responsibilities

• Meet or exceed monthly sales quota through identification and closing of incremental sales and revenue opportunities.
• Proactively and consistently engage customers to understand the changing business needs of their set of customer accounts to identify upselling/cross selling and new product revenue growth opportunities.
• Renew customer contracts to protect and grow existing revenue streams.
• Maintains excellent knowledge of Company's products/services, pricing practices and selling skills to effectively ensure positioning and alignment of Company Business Services with assigned accounts.
• Initiate and deliver proposed solutions to meet the needs of the assigned customers as it relates to Advanced Voice, Metro Ethernet, Active Core, SD-WAN, Manager Router and other Business Class products, as appropriate.
• Maintain customer satisfaction and serve as the primary escalation point for any customer issues that arise. Proactively coordinates efforts with other internal teams and groups to ensure effective resolution.
• Manage the cultivation, execution and delivery of sales and services to local and regional accounts in the Enterprise and mid-market segment.
• Collaborate with Sales, Finance and Operations leadership to develop specific account management plans to meet assigned accounts needs and an overall strategy to optimize sales and retention opportunities.
• Position and sell Company Business Class services across multiple organizational levels including but not limited to C-level and Executive level personnel.
• Management of existing revenue, sales opportunities, quota, funnels and forecasts consistent with Region, Division and Corporate sales, service and operational goals and objectives.
• Possesses excellent written and oral communications, interpersonal skills and planning, presentation and organizational skills.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Skills: Account Management, Relationship Management, Sales

Compensation: Primary Location Pay Range: $67,704.00 - $112,476.00 Targeted Commission: $40,000.00 Our sales compensation programs offer the potential for significant upside above targeted earnings for those who overachieve their sales targets.

Education: Bachelor's Degree