Account Manager-SMB Business Sales

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What you’ll be doing:

With your sales experience, ability to efficiently manage your time, excellent customer relations skills, and excitement for technology, you'll deliver outstanding and innovative business solutions that support our technology evolution and the way businesses connect. Whether you're continuously hunting and prospecting for new business or growing existing accounts, you'll consult with customers to identify their business challenges and recommend tailored solutions to solve them and ultimately deliver a powerful return for customers while improving their business and growing our revenue.

• Developing and qualifying leads within the respective territory to drive additional sales opportunities through cold-calling, partner-selling, lead-generation campaigns, and modern social selling techniques.

• Gaining new business and incremental revenue to meet sales targets.

• Retaining, managing, and growing the existing customer base.

• Educating and exciting customers while leveraging innovative business solutions.

• Building relationships with key decision makers.

• Presenting and creating multi-product solution opportunities.

• Understanding and selling groundbreaking integrated software solutions including: Cloud, Security, ISP, VoIP, and Google platforms.

• Tracking and reporting progress through sales force automation tools.

• Drive sales, increase service revenue, and manage relationships for accounts in the 1–19 Employee Segment

This position will be supporting San Leandro, CA & the surrounding area.

You’re a self-motivated person who thrives on crafting the right solution to solve a client’s problems. And you are great at explaining how complex technology can solve everyday business problems in a language people understand. Cold-calling feels like a sport to you because meeting new people and discovering their needs is what you enjoy. People seek you out for advice and counsel. You seek to win and take the initiative to close deals and help others around you. You act with integrity. You know that when the team wins, we all win.

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Three or more years of relevant work experience.

• Willingness to work in a mobile working model with travel within your assigned geographic sales territory. Expected travel may be up to approximately 50% of the time.

• Valid driver’s license

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A degree - Associate's or Bachelor's Degree or related certifications/college courses.

• Two or more years of business-to-business or outside sales experience, including business acquisition and prospecting/cold calling.

• Technology sales and educational experience, i.e., SaaS sales experience, CRM, Salesforce, or other client management tools, social media, etc.

• Strong presentation skills in a face-to-face and virtual environment. .

• Experience building and maintaining strong business relationships with all levels of client organizations.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, self-directed, entrepreneurial environment. 

• Ability to manage time and prioritize tasks to accomplish goals.

• Ability to implement feedback and tailor your approach for success.

***External applicants may be eligible to receive a sign-on bonus incentive***

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.