Sales Account Executive Job Description
Sales account executive
provides deep understanding of client’s industry landscape and business options, and partner with clients to make bold decisions on priority client issues at the intersection of business, technology, and operations.
Sales Account Executive Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Consult local and regional businesses to understand their marketing needs and develop advertising campaigns
Ongoing consultation with clients regarding the performance of their purchased campaigns
Work closely with internal departments to help fulfill the client’s expectations and execute the advertising campaigns
Creating marketing campaigns and strategically selling to local and regional decision makers
Attend/participate in Sales meetings
Generating local revenue, ensuring all financial goals are being exceeded, while developing and maintaining relationships with agencies and clients
Ability to develop and maintain direct relationships with agencies and clients to promote station image and perception
Identify needs of advertisers and prepare custom sales presentations
Consult with sales management on opportunities and specific needs of clients
Constantly develop new business revenue streams
Sales Account Executive Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Sales Account Executive
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: NICET, CDIA, RSPH, NAFTA, ASE, EMC, DELL
Education for Sales Account Executive
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the sales account executive job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Business, Marketing, Education, Advertising, Communication, Mass Communications, Management, Communications, Technical, MBA
Skills for Sales Account Executive
Desired skills for sales account executive include:
Customers to provide input into which products
Features to promote
Business processes and industries
Business processes and industry trends
Core business and of freight structure and operations to resolve problems
Features and business applications of services
Finances involved in manufacturing and distributing products
Flow of materials
Information
Make decisions and achieve business objectives
Desired experience for sales account executive includes:
Requirements include 2-3 years of outside sales experience
A college degree or equivalent experience in advertising, marketing or mass communications is preferred
Must be able to think both strategically and creatively in order to bring ideas that can be used effectively to meet the client’s need
Ability to travel throughout the assigned territory area, valid driver’s license, insurance requirements and a good driving record are a must
Possess a property/casualty insurance license in the province of New Brunswick
Possess a Bachelor’s Degree from a college or university
Sales Account Executive Examples
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Sales Account Executive Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a sales account executive. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for sales account executive
- Develop, implement, and maintain an annual Business Plan supporting attainment of quota, market share growth, and other company objectives
- Share internally customers’ requirements and feedback, trends and market direction
- Control territory sales expenditures
- Monitors account statistics and qualifies internal sales leads to identify opportunities and create an effective sales strategy
- Utilizes resources and account history to prepare for sales calls
- Submits pricing requests and analyzes price quotes
- Develops standard operating procedures (SOPs), generates standard and customized reports and queries, accesses appropriate databases, and interprets and clarifies data
- Investigate and resolve all customer complaints promptly
- Develop and generate new business for multiple platforms, while increasing revenue from existing clients
- Ability to entertain clients/prospects during none business hours including weeknights and weekends
Qualifications for sales account executive
- A paid initial training period continued technical and sales training throughout your tenure
- Opportunity for commission rate increasesWestern is an Equal Opportunity Employer and promote diversity through a culture of inclusion and opportunity
- If you are willing to work hard and develop your territory this may be the right fit for you
- Strong computer skills with current technical knowledge, , proficiency w/MS Office (Excel/PP)
- Reliable, accurate forecasting and sales reporting
- Highly responsive to ad hoc requests
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of sales account executive. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for sales account executive
- Provides clients with information regarding rates for advertising placement on television and digital platforms
- Provide accurate and timely forecast’s using the appropriate sales tools and processes and maintain all relevant information about customers, prospects, campaigns, and leads
- Actively participate and provide leadership in networking organizations
- Set net new and current account appointments
- Enter activity accurately into CRM database
- Work with other divisions to participate in all cross-selling opportunities
- Assist with customer service and problem resolutions
- Secure new business and expand business with current customers
- Ensure customer satisfaction, both through the sales phase and consistently after the sale
- Partner with service as needed to ensure customers are well taken care of
Qualifications for sales account executive
- Well organized, self-motivated, outgoing and independent
- Demonstrate ability to contribute to teamwork environment
- Successful completion of Spacelabs training required (including training done at Company location)
- Must maintain a good driving record and be insurable per company policy
- Experience using Microsoft products or equivalent software - Preferred
- Minimum of 1 year staffing or recruiting experience Preferred
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of sales account executive. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for sales account executive
- Refine sales strategies to grow the business and hit account acquisition targets
- Represent the Micro Focus Mainframe line of business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- Focused on expanding share of wallet with existing customers acquiring new named customers through reference selling
- Build customer relationships with Large Enterprises at Senior and Executive Management level
- Meet and exceed sales and coverage objectives for the assigned territory in Large Enterprise (LE) accounts
- Focus on customer value realization
- Use safe and defensive driving techniques and attend defensive driving as required
- Territory management including market segmentation and other related research required of understanding the market potential
- Lead generation to include targeted campaigns, targeted mailings (coordinated with marketing), webinar marketing (in addition to what marketing is doing), and other pipeline building activities as required
- Ability to deliver a compelling demonstration of the Nexidia solution in both face-to-face meetings and via webcasts
Qualifications for sales account executive
- Awareness of own strengths and your areas requiring growth
- Influence others with individual leadership so that the other person could take appropriate action to achieve the desired results
- Architects a strategic marketing plan that aligns sales initiatives with customer requirements
- Interprets and analyzes research and competitive intelligence to understand the market drivers and business opportunities
- Crafts complex proposals and business solutions with a high degree of confidence and strategic thought
- Be deadline driven- able to work under stress/ pressure
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a sales account executive. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for sales account executive
- Comprehensive understanding managing revenue data through SalesForce
- In-depth understanding of clients and their business needs/goals
- Shows high degree of personal integrity and leadership within the Sales department
- Aggressive, outside sales resulting in new account attainment and revenue generation
- Face to face prospecting/product presentations to targeted dealerships in territory
- Active Account Management focused on consulting & training around best practices
- Proactively manage a prospect list and accurately record activity and results in CRM
- Manage personal workflow including setting goals, scheduling of calls/appointments and supporting special projects from time to time as communicated by management
- Achievement of monthly new revenue generation quota and account retention goals
- Proactively develop new business by using all of our advertising and marketing assets
Qualifications for sales account executive
- Valid driver's license and minimal levels of auto insurance coverage required
- Account Sales Executive is required to register with a vendor credentialing service
- Can prospect customers and lead generation
- Can meet with customers, assess their needs and provide customized solutions that produce results
- Must possess demonstrated ability to work with minimal daily direct supervision
- Must demonstrate outgoing personality and professional appearance
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Our growing company is hiring for a sales account executive. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for sales account executive
- Implement strategies to consistently grow revenue and exceed revenue goals
- Establish credible relationships within our local business community
- Make sales calls on prospective clients and develop new accounts
- Maintain assigned accounts and develop new accounts
- Prepare and deliver sales presentations to clients
- Work with clients and station personnel to develop advertisements
- Maintains local knowledge of day-to-day developments relating to the holiday rental market and identify opportunities as and when they arise
- Prepare and delivers proposals to existing and prospective clients
- Suggests improvements to existing account management processes
- Employee insurance and benefits
Qualifications for sales account executive
- Bachelor’s degree and or 5 years of successful sales experience within the document solutions arena
- Bachelor Degree and/or 2+ years in a sales (business to business) environment
- 2+ years of business-to-business outside sales experience
- Bachelor Degree and successful experience in a sales (business to business) environment
- BA/BS Degree required with ideal background in Life Sciences preferred
- Support the community we do business in