Strategic Accounts Manager

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Sales Account Manager focusing on developing relationships within the State and Local Government and Education sectors. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a premium customer experience with Red Hat's solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Work to identify, develop and close new sales opportunities within existing accounts as well as non Red Hat accounts in the identified territory
  • Work closely with account solutions architects to identify key projects, programs, and offices to sell Red Hat's solutions
  • Manage the account planning process
  • Develop new strategies for our offerings within key accounts to establish proofs of concepts and pilot implementations
  • Become a trusted adviser for senior IT and business executives of key accounts to create long-term partnerships with customers in the SLED accounts

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of field sales experience in state and local agencies
  • Record of working closely with customers to produce solutions that exceed their business expectations in a rapidly evolving technology domain
  • Record of hitting / exceeding annual sales quotas and budgets
  • Experience working in consultative customer engagement with a major enterprise software company
  • Broad understanding of the government acquisition process, specifically the government's IT acquisition process
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to present to 'C' level executives, IT Directors and project managers from both state and local agencies and their industry partners
  • Ability to maintain a solutions sales mentality in an environment with multiple offerings and services
  • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
  • Excellent balance of strategic and tactical skills
  • Experience selling operating system, middleware, storage, automation, or cloud infrastructure software solutions is a plus

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
  • Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
  • Retirement 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
  • Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
  • Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

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