Account Executive (nationwide)

Sales Representative

Job description summary closes profitable sales of technology-based solutions for customer business environments. Researches sales leads, obtains knowledge of customer organizations, develops customer relationships, builds strong business relationships with partners and vendors, and generates product and/or services proposals and quotations.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Owns all sales activities in assigned accounts or regions and achieves established sales targets annually.
• Creates business cases and high-level financial models including ROI and TCO analysis to help in positioning and selling of technology-based solutions to solve business problems.
• Sells to both large and SMB clients via direct new sales, alliances and leverages existing client base, both broad market and vertical.
• Constructs clear value proposition for clients which includes business benefits (i.e. OPEX vs. CAPEX substitution, ROI, TCO).
• Engages proactively with Solutions and Services, Marketing and Operations teams.
• Compiles lists of prospective customers for use as sales leads, based on information from own professional network, industry ads, trade shows, Internet Web sites, newspapers, business directories, and other sources.
• Builds and maintains research on prospective and current customers relating to how each customer is organized (hierarchically, brands, channels, and key relationships).
• Establishes and maintains current customer and potential customer relationships.
• Gains clear understanding of customer business requirements.
• Educates customers on full breadth of solutions offered by Logicalis.
• Prepares presentations, proposals and sales contracts.
• Identifies and resolves customer concerns.
• Demonstrates and actively promotes an understanding and commitment to the mission of Logicalis through performing behaviors consistent with the organization's values.
• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and Local laws and regulations as well as policies and procedures of Logicalis in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behaviors.
• Supports and conducts self in a manner consistent with customer service expectations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field.
• 3 years demonstrated outside sales experience selling Information Technology products (i.e. HP Storage, Cisco, and IBM) and consulting services/managed services.
• 3 years combining products and services into technology solutions that meet customer business needs.
• Technical sales expertise selling to both Enterprise and SMB market and strong familiarity with Cloud, Managed Services, and Web 2.0 technical concepts.
• Fundamental understanding of consultative, solutions sales process for dedicated, managed, cloud, and hybrid web hosting solutions.
• Demonstrated success in strategic thinking, planning and imp