Job Description/Requirements Position: Business Account Manager Company: Echotel Industry: Corporate ICT Solutions Location: Pan-African Experience: 5 years in ISP sales
About Echotel: Echotel is the leading provider of Pan-African corporate ICT solutions, specializing in innovative digital services and transformative technology solutions. We simplify highly complex products and services into integrated client solutions, ensuring our clients' success and fostering lasting relationships.
What You'll Thrive in:
You'll thrive in our company if: • You take pride in your work and continuously seek improvement and growth. • You excel in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. • You have a passion for AI and its applications or a desire to learn more (we provide support). • You embrace data-led decision making as the norm. • You possess a positive attitude and view feedback or failure as an opportunity to learn and grow. • You identify with our core principles and desire to work alongside experts in their respective fields.
Objectives: • Generate new business opportunities, manage the sales pipeline, and ensure closure of deals. • Lead the development of new-business proposals and presentations, fostering partnerships and nurturing opportunities. • Identify trends and customer needs, building a sales pipeline aligned with short/medium/long-term targets. • Analyze new-venture integration, develop strategies and positions, and support the implementation of marketing strategies. • Motivate the team, monitor performance, and report metrics.
Responsibilities: • Articulate the value of Echotel through presentations, demonstrations, and discussions with C-level executives. • Drive revenue generation by acquiring new customers, implementing effective territory strategies, and go-to-market approaches. • Generate leads, contact decision-makers, evaluate potential business opportunities, and manage pitch logistics. • Qualify leads from marketing campaigns and convert them into sales opportunities. • Secure deals with maximum contracted value and profitability, exceeding threshold requirements. • Identify client needs and propose innovative and appropriate products/services. • Build long-term trusting relationships with clients. • Facilitate meetings between prospective clients and senior company members, fostering robust relationships across organizational levels. • Resolve complaints and problems in a timely and effective manner. • Serve as a liaison between clients and internal teams. • Contribute to sales meetings and evaluate industry trends and customer drivers, engaging with managers and stakeholders to discuss strategy. • Manage the proposal response process, including detailed RFP requirements, content creation, and inputs from various sources. • Support deal structure and pricing with business-value analysis and negotiate prices for proactive bids and proposals. • Maintain and enhance professional knowledge through education, networking, events, and presentations. • Attend sales training sessions to confidently address product-related client inquiries. • Deliver exceptional client service. • Stay updated on competitor activity, products, and services. • Ensure accurate forecast and pipeline data entry, with no more than a 15% variance from actual figures. • Maintain pristine CRM/SOLID system data for assigned accounts, including monthly MRR, existing services, pending opportunities, and account status. • Identify and report client pain points, providing monthly reports on the same. • Provide monthly reports on lost/churned services or clients. • Escalate client issues to Senior Management when necessary. • Assist the Head of Sales with client relations and reporting. • Aid in organizing customer-focused events. • Conduct product and service presentations for external and internal clients. • Visit clients to meet key decision-makers, understand their requirements, and offer tailored solutions. • Perform any other duties assigned from time to time.
Requirements: • Proven work experience of 5 years as a business account manager in an ISP. • Hands-on experience with CRM software. • Strong understanding of sales performance metrics and a track record of achieving sales quotas. • Successful B2B sales and negotiation experience. • Excellent verbal and written communication
