Account Executive
Location: Chicago, IL
Vortek Systems
Account Executive
The AE is responsible for driving new business within assigned territory and customer base to meet or exceed sales quota.
The Account Executive ( AE) is accountable for farming (up-sell and cross-sell) in accounts. The AE builds and maintains strong relationships with the clients (including C level relationships) and increases market share in the accounts and improves penetration. This role is dominantly sales focused.
Role Expectations:
- At least 5-10 years of experience in selling IT Services in Tier-1 or Tier-2 competitive organizations
- Strong knowledge of global delivery model (GDM) and methodologies. Should be familiar with cross selling various service lines for customers
- Ability to present and interact at C levels, and have consultative sales capability.
- Ability to work and collaborate across other teams in various service lines and anchor together for the account.
- Ability to manage multi-cultural teams and travel to different client locations – mostly within US and sometimes across the world if needed for expanding our footprint in other geographies.
- Exposure to delivery, sales or pre-sales roles will be required
- Should have managed a multi-million USD account, across various geos.
- Strong Account Management – building and managing client relationships at the C level.
- Get involved in resolving any people management issue within teams.
- Facilitating Delivery team to present delivery successes in strong and positive way and growing the account
- Generating leads by interacting with the customers in various lines of business to expand our footprint.
- Presenting and publishing the proposals (proactive ones as well as responses to RFP/RFIs)
- Interacting with Procurement and Supplier relationship team from customer organization and maintain smoother flow of contracts, invoices and payments.
- Work closely with senior customer IS team (CIO, VPs and Directors) to suggest, advice, evaluate, and prime business growth