Sales Director

Sales Director

Join our team in Bellevue, WA. Ericsson Inc. does not sponsor US work authorizations for this job position including H-1B, O-1, and TN. Ericsson also does not hire F-1's working on EAD for this position. About this opportunity: We are helping a major tier 1 customer start their 5G journey. Do you have experience selling or supporting a sales team responsible for Core and Service Assurance solutions? Do you have experience building and maintaining relationships with operators? As a sales director, you will secure short and long-term profitable business for Ericsson through proactive business development. You will lead efforts and collaboration, both internal and external, to actively contribute to making our customers successful.

What you will do: Join a team with established relationships at a large tier 1 customer Help our customer transform the way it builds and manages their advanced data networking services by using big data analytics, deep networking expertise and leading-edge computing technologies Have access to our commercially ready 5G portfolio Position and sell our Core and Service Assurance Solutions Identifying critical customer needs through consultative customer engagement to generate sales opportunities Conduct product/solution presentation and demonstration to articulate value propositions Leveraging Key Account Manager resources (e.g. Marketing, Technical Support), local market resources, the business units in headquarters and potentially external partners. Participating in the VP & KAM team in developing business plans and new sales initiatives. Create, maintain and leverage trust-based relationships with relevant customer interfaces Thought leadership in the areas of communication evolution, virtualization, cloud, and analytics

The Skills you bring: Degree in Engineering preferably in Electronics, Computer science, Telecommunication and MBA (Master in Business Administration or similar) Experience selling Ericsson's Core and Assurance solutions. plus. Minimum two years of project execution and delivery experience Strong sales and delivery experience Experience with SDN, NFV and Cloud Environments Understanding of Mobile technologies (3G, 4G/LTE, 5G) Good understanding of cloud native 5G core. IMS, Analytics, Inventory management, Network Management, Network & Service Orchestration knowledge & experience is big plus