Sales Consultant Job in Rarome

Sales Consultants are specialists that are responsible for leading pursuit in their assigned focus areas. Collaborates with and supports Account Managers and provides specialist expertise within the sales team. Drives proactive campaigns to build the pipeline, uses specialized knowledge and skills to prospect, qualify, negotiate and close opportunities. May have named accounts allocated, cover a designated geography, or may be allocated to one high-potential, competitive attack account.

Responsibilities:

• Develops long term sales pipeline to increase the firm's market share.
• Set direction for business development and solution replication.
• Identify, Create & grow reference customers.
• Sell complex products or solutions to customers.
• May act as a dedicated resource to a few strategic accounts.
• Contribute to enduring executive relationships that establish the company's consultative professionalism and promote its total solution capabilities.
• Maintains broad market and competitor knowledge to ensure credibility with Customer Executives.

Education and Experience Required:

• University or Bachelor's degree; Advanced University or MBA preferred.
• Directly related previous work experience.
• Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota diversity of business customer, and higher level customer interface.
• Prior selling experience includes multiple, diverse set of selling responsibilities.
• Viewed as expert in given field by company and customer.
• Considered a mentor of selling strategy, including designing strategy.
• Typically 2+ years of related sales experience

Knowledge and Skills:

• Is considered a master in knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor's offerings to be able to sell large, complex solutions.
• Know strengths and weaknesses of key competitors in account and how to leverage this knowledge in the account.
• Uses expertise specialty, consultative solution selling and business development skills to align the client's business needs with solution.
• In-depth knowledge of client's business, organizational structure, business processes and financial structure.
• Considerable knowledge of the customer's infrastructure and architecture.
• Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving services sales in accounts - prospecting, negotiating and closing deals.
• Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving full portfolio including hardware, software and services needed for the customer's requirements.
• Strategic planning on a business development level; can build an effective business case reflecting the value of an appropriate strategy.
• Balance strategic and tactical pursuits to optimize coverage and develop a predictable revenue stream.
• Excellent project oversight skills.
• Successful partner engagement experience.
• Works effectively with our partners to drive additional revenue.
• Understand and sells high value software solutions.
• Demonstrates the ability to leverage the company's portfolio of products and services to change the playing field against our competition.
• Understands the leverage of services as part of strategic portfolio of products.
• Promotes services as part of all strategic opportunities.
• Maintain knowledge of industry trends, associated solutions, and key partner/ISV solutions.