Account Manager II

The Role

Responsible for Regional Enterprise sales account development within an established geographic territory for a complex suite of services and robust product sets to drive sales, increase brand awareness, and grow a specific territory.

Location

• This position allows work from home in Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
• Will require at least 25% of time conducting sales activities outside of the office.

The Main Responsibilities

• Providing accurate and detailed weekly forecast funnel of identified and proposed opportunities in order to meet or exceed sales quota requirements
• Responsible for developing Regional Enterprise sales in the designated target market(s) by identifying new sales opportunities with prospective enterprise customers headquartered in the region by cold calling, premise visits, networking, lead generation, proposal submission, and customer appointments.
• Effective relationship-building internally through cross-functional collaboration and problem-solving with partners such as Customer Success, Product, Marketing, Solutions / Technology experts, Sales Support, Service Delivery
• Identifies, bids on, negotiates, and closes new sales opportunities in order to meet and exceed established sales and revenue quotas.

Provides comprehensive account plans and strategies to win new business from existing accounts.

• Providing input to sales management about trends and changes taking place within the customer’s organization and making recommendations about future courses of action necessary of the company towards improving its position with the customer.
• Leveraging strategic client relationships and external presence to achieve Lumen’s strategic imperatives
• Leveraging your external network to identify and recruit high performing talent to the team and builds internal relationships with other leaders to provide win-win career opportunities to Lumen employees

What We Look For in a Candidate

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience
• 5-7+ years’ experience using a solution-based sales methodology for enterprise technology services in a consultative, complex, business-line sales process
• Demonstrated strong communication, written, and formal presentation skills as well as proficiency in selling to the close.
• Proficiency in MS Office Products : Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Strong business acumen and expert knowledge of Lumen’s products, services, and solutions
• Experience with Salesforce.com preferred

Compensation

The starting salary for this role differs based on the employee's primary work location. Employees typically do not start at the top of the range, though compensation depends on each individual's qualifications.

Location Based Pay Ranges

$58360 - $77810 in these states : AR, KY, LA, MS, NE, and SD.

$61430 - $81900 in these states : AL, IN, IA, KS, MO, ND, OH, OK, TN, and WI.

$64500 - $86000 in these states : MI and MN.

$67570 - $90090 in these states : IL and TX.

As with the pay range variety that's based on the region of a country, specific offers are determined by various factors such as experience, education, skills, certifications and other business needs.