Overview
Job Title: National Account Manager
Job Experience: 4 – 5 years
Job Industry: Technology
Work location: Dar es Salaam
Date published: September 30, 2024
Description of the Job:
Job Purpose:
To recruit new Enterprise clients on behalf of the company, primarily from a target pool of national in-country customers who operate nationally (in-country), regionally (Pan-Africa), and globally.
Job Responsibilities:
- Identify and pursue sales prospects from various sources, including meetings, clients, sales channels, and vendors.
- Assist the assigned global or regional account manager with their global acquisition strategy and utilize global transactions to win locally. Sign off on a local account plan that aligns with the global plan.
- Ensures that all contracted income streams from won opportunities are accounted for in all relevant accounts.
- Maintains an assigned pipeline product and country mix that reflects the business’s strategic goals in line with established objectives.
- Delivers an agreed-upon minimum incremental total contract value (TCV) of business each year.
- Maintain the company’s sales system with all necessary data on a timely basis.
The required Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience in the enterprise company is highly preferred.
- University degree with at least three years of successful solution sales experience in a technology organization.
- Understanding of essential financial measures, such as ROI, and the ability to use them as effective selling tools.
- Experience identifying up-selling possibilities to expand product penetration with customers.
- Capable of managing the entire opportunity lifecycle, including identification, proposal generation, and implementation.
- Capability to bring new innovative concepts to key decision makers inside the customer organization via relationship and stakeholder management at the CxO level.
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Word.
- Ability to comprehend and apply internal process management tools.
- Awareness of the telecom and ICT industries, as well as their impact on customer organizations.
- Capability to properly prioritize and carry out activities in a high-demanding setting.
- Excellent mastery of both spoken and written English and Kiswahili.