Sales Executive - Strategic Accounts

Sales Executive – Strategic Accounts The Sales Executive – Strategic Accounts positions will ultimately be responsible for driving new footprint and growth opportunities within key existing accounts. The role will manage the interaction with a selection of Rackspace’s key Customer accounts. The selected candidate will focus on delivering an exceptional customer experience. You will develop and plan strategies and activities for specified accounts and opportunities such as, selecting high yield visits, initiating calls, identifying buyer influences, overcoming objections, introducing new services, making sales presentations and negotiating to close. Key Accountabilities: Meet and exceed monthly sales quota Develop and present major account strategies Proactively generate, qualify and close new business opportunities within your customer base Responsible for full sales cycle from proactively generating lead to close Management of the quality of overall deliverables and pursuit strategy throughout the whole sales process Work closely with Solutions Architects to perform presales feasibility assessments of how well Rackspace solutions meet the customer requirements and what customisation would be required Maintain clear business understanding of your customers business needs and how Rackspace fits in with them – where appropriate drive Rackspace product teams to develop new propositions. Building and maintaining strategic account plans for focus accounts Understand, engage and de