- Account and relationship development and management, at all levels of the customer organization.
- Articulate solution business value to customers and lead solution development efforts that best address customer needs whilst coordinating the involvement of all necessary company personnel including support, service, and management resources to meet account performance objectives and customers' expectations.
- Demonstrate thorough understanding of the customer's business priorities and initiatives. Discuss relevant trends and priorities integrating industry knowledge and solution knowledge.
- Ability to challenge customers' current way of doing business to drive results.
- Responsible for administration of overall strategic account plan, opportunity management, competitive displacement targeting, and pipeline development within CRM tool.
- Respond to RFPs, bid preparation, follow-up, negotiation and closing of sales.
- Provide sales and executive management with account updates, sales forecasts, etc.
- Proficiently use SalesForce for opportunity management
- Accurately forecast deals for current and future business.
- Achieve aggressive sales quota.
- Minimum 3 years of related utility sales experience or Industry experience in a consultative selling role. Experience leading multimillion dollar sales campaigns.
- Demonstrated track record in solution sales with multi-year achievement against personal quota.
- Ability to travel 25% of time.
Aftermarket Sales Account Manager - Hamel, United States - Aspen Technology
Description
AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our Digital Grid Management software suite, including AspenTech OSI products, helps power and utilities companies achieve superior real-time control, optimization and management for exceptional performance of complex energy networks.
The Role
The Aftermarket Sales Account Manager is responsible for developing and maintaining business for assigned customer accounts, including consultative upselling of solutions and services. As an individual contributor, you will lead cross-functional teams to formulate client strategies, manage client solutions, and close on strategic client opportunities.Your Impact
We are seeking a strategic salesperson with the ability to see how existing customer solutions can be repeated and leveraged within our current customer base. You will be focused on maximizing and increasing the value delivered by our solutions to our clients by positioning the OSI business's comprehensive software portfolio and implementation services, and your job responsibilities include: