Networking Technology Sales Specialist

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain subject matter expertise in the Network technology domain.
• Support the closure of sales based on technology domain knowledge.
• Addresses the technology conceptual challenges during the sales process.
• Maintains a high level of relevant product and service knowledge to have meaningful conversations with potential and existing clients.
• Maintains awareness of the competitive landscape, market pricing, and strategy and how to penetrate a new market.
• Works with relevant technology vendors and ensures a deep understanding of their solutions and how they can contribute to our own solutions set.
• Engages and interacts with clients to uncover and understand client business goals and articulates the solution/deliverables that the client requires, as opposed to the products that they need to buy.
• Prepares and conducts client workshops and presentations and establishes relationships with multiple client stakeholders and secures deals with clients to achieve assigned sales quotas and targets.
• Uses understanding of the client’s business and depth of knowledge on the technology-specific solution to personalize the recommended solution in line with the client’s need.
• Identifies and acts on new sales opportunities within an account and works with the sales teams to drive them to closure.
• Pursues and lands qualified leads identified by the client managers and other lead generation sources.
• Executes on the sales strategy and supports the wider territory sales plan, defining own plan for the solution to ensure that sales target is achieved.
• Develops and maintains clear account plans for appropriate clients and targets.
• Identifies, assesses and highlights client risks that could prove detrimental to the client’s organization and credibility.
• Partners with internal teams to ensure the scope of work and proposals are tracked and managed.
• Uses sales methodologies and tools such as opportunity plans, and account plans to drive the sales process.
• Develops and implements an opportunity plan, to provide regular check-ins with the primary point of contact and have an established process for getting buy-in from all stakeholders.

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Seasoned demonstrated success in achieving and exceeding sales and financial goals.
• Seasoned in developing and encouraging meaningful customer relationships up to senior leadership level.
• Seasoned proficiency in delivering engaging sales presentations.
• Seasoned proficiency in team selling approach.
• Seasoned knowledge of competitors and ability to apply competing successful sales strategies.
• Ability to define sales strategy coupled with seasoned sales solution capabilities.
• Client-centric approach with ability to understand customer problems and find best-fit solutions.
• Flexible to adapt quickly to short, new missions or urgent deadlines.
• Seasoned negotiation abilities to craft solutions that are beneficial to customers, partners, and organization overall.
• Close attention to maintaining up to date, accurate sales forecast and close plans.
• Seasoned business acumen.
• Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in information technology/systems or sales or a related field.
• SPIN and / or Solution Selling certification(s) preferred.
• Relevant technology and vendor certification(s) preferred.

Required experience:

• Seasoned sales experience in a technology or services environment.
• Seasoned understanding of IT Managed Services environment.
• Seasoned experience of solution-based selling with a proven track record of sales over-achievement.
• Seasoned experience in selling complex networking technology solutions and services to senior level clients.
• Seasoned experience in resolving a wide range of issues in creative ways to meet targets and objectives.
• Seasoned experience in networking with senior internal and external people in the specialist area of expertise.