• Meets assigned targets for profitable sales volume and strategic objectives of accounts.
• Proactively leads a joint company-strategic account planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, financial targets, and critical milestones for a one and three-year period.
• Proactively assesses, clarifies, and validates customer needs on an ongoing basis.
• Leads solution development efforts that best address customer needs, while coordinating the involvement of all necessary company personnel.
• Bears overall responsibility for customer ownership and acts as central point of contact and interface between customer & organization
• Identify sales opportunities, networking and fact-finding and calling on and closing new accounts.
• Manage and penetrate customers at all levels and develop relationships with accounts that enable achievement of plans and objectives.
• Prepare and deliver effective selling presentations that implement approved Customer Business Plans and employ effective game theory and negotiating strategies.
• Develop timely and accurate forecasts (volume and spend) for accounts and revise based on actual performance.
• Coordinates the involvement of company personnel, including support, services, and management resources, to meet account performance objectives.
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• Identification of market potential, new technology trends as well as observation and analysis of the market and competition.