Job Description
Sales Account Manager - EPOS/Payment Software/SaaS - Higher Education Sector
Home Based with UK Travel
£40 Basic, 5k Car Allowance & £75-80k OTE
My Client a leading provider of Payment/EPOS Solutions within the Public & Private Sector require a Sales Account Manager to be is responsible for cross and Up selling Software/SaaS, Hardware and IT Services to an existing Client base, mainly within the Higher Education sector.
Responsibilites:
- Use a consultative sales approach to understand client needs and provide tailored Payment/EPOS solutions
- Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the Company’s product portfolio and awareness of competitor products
- Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key accounts at both operational and strategic levels.
- Assist with devising and implementing lead generation activities, as required. Qualify, develop and manage a lead through to sales conversion.
- Lead contract negotiations and renewals, ensuring mutually beneficial terms and long-term account satisfaction.
- Develop and execute account-specific strategies and business plans to achieve revenue and profitability goals.
- Respond to and follow up all sales enquiries using appropriate methods and in a timely manner
- Develop and maintain a qualified sales pipeline of sufficient size and appropriate stage of the buying cycle to enable achievement of agreed sales targets
- Ensure all monthly sales targets (KPIs) set by management and agreed on in advance are met or exceeded
- Maximise profit on all potential sales opportunities
- Establish and maintain strategic relationships, alliances and networks within industry (or any other vertical market) as well as with other key stakeholders to generate sales leads
Skills Required:
- Proven 5 years+ experience selling software solutions/SaaS ideally with some experince within the Public Sector (Ideally Higher Education sector)
- Proven record of over achievement of sales targets
- Strong negotiation skills and ability to close sales
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation communications skills
- A moderate to high degree of computer literacy and technical competency is a must
- Demonstrable evidence of organizing customer accounts and projection implementation
- A desire to solve customer problems
- An innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. Perseveres to be successful with the ability to overcome objections to achieve sales targets
- Excellent listening, interpersonal and communication skills