Territory Account Manager, Chicago

Territory Account Manager, Chicago
Acme is looking for a Territory Account Manager for the Pacific North West area. As a Territory Accounts Manager, you are responsible for selling Acme’s Products and Solutions through Channel Partners and interacting directly with customers in the North West region. You will also be working closely with a Sales Engineer. This position is based out of Chicago.
Essential to success in this role is a keen ability develop new accounts and to penetrate new divisions and organizations within your assigned accounts. Acme provides unrivaled support and tools from the Engineering, Marketing, and Product Development departments for you to leverage to exceed sales performance goals. In this position you would be working very closely the co-founders and VPs and have a large amount of influence on sales team decisions and initiatives. 

Responsibilities

• Use relationship management techniques to develop selling opportunities within partner organizations; penetrate new divisions and organizations within assigned partner account; develop new selling relationships within assigned partner account; develop new direct selling opportunities.
• Schedule and attend sales call appointments with a prospect in partner organization. Acme Channel Partner Representatives may also participate in the sales call to help qualify the opportunity. 
• Utilizing a consultative approach, discuss business issues with prospect and develop a formal quote, a written sales proposal or a formal sales presentation addressing their business needs. 
• Respond to RFP's and follow up with prospects.
• Develop an account plan to sell to customers based on their business needs.
• Build and strengthen the business relationship with current accounts and new prospects.
• Recommend marketing strategies.
• Provide status information to your Manager including forecast/pipeline information. 
• Provide, or facilitate training opportunities for your accounts.
• Identify Acme customer references that can be utilized when reference selling.
• Provide product feedback back to engineering to improve Acme complete block solutions

Skills

• Strong verbal and written communications skills including presentation skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with employees within the sales function and across functions including Marketing, Sales Operations, System Engineering, and Product Development. 
• Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques
• An aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems as well as the competitive landscape. 
• Ability to communicate with senior managers about their business challenges and Acme data management storage solutions.
• Experience using SFDC and other CRM software.
• Track record of exceeding assigned sales quotas in contiguous, multiple years. 

Qualifications and Experience

• 3 to 10 years of sales experience preferred. 
• Experience that demonstrates a strong level of expertise in technical specifications required to sell Acme products and services is required.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience