Job Description
Account Executives are responsible for both building and managing their book of business by leveraging solution-selling, traditional and digital prospecting tactics, and supporting long-term strategic customer relationships following the initial prospect/onboarding and stabilization period. The primary areas of responsibility include prospecting, expert knowledge of features and products to create a personalized solution for each institution (feature adoption), and developing relationships with buying decision makers across functional areas such as Information Technology, Facilities, and more.
The Account Executive will ensure recommended solutions meet our customer’s procurement needs and will recommend approaches and alternatives that fit their environment, including but not limited to contracting and competitive requirements unique to public institutions, eProcurement integration, advanced payment, and automated reconciliation processes. The candidate will work closely with customers to manage deployment and ensure that our solutions are successfully adopted. The ideal candidate will have relevant consultative sales experience and have a proven track record of meeting and exceeding program goals and revenue targets.
This is an Inside Sales role with limited travel 10% (tradeshows and customer meetings). This role is focused on the mid-market segment, working with customers and prospects in a geographically-focused territory across Southeast US states.
Key job responsibilities
Deliver accurate weekly reporting on pipeline and customer spend adoption, including account status updates and insights learned during deployment
Provide strategic account engagement that helps customers implement solutions that solve industry-specific procurement challenges
Drive and accelerate spend adoption by advising customers on best practices for using Amazon Business solutions
Focus on automating service needs for customers, while working with Product and Technical teams to develop solutions that will increase solution adoption
Relay market needs and requirements back to internal Amazon teams, including Product, Technical, and Category Management teams
About the team
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- Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 3+ years of sales or marketing work (like e-commerce, retail technology, SaaS) or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of inside sales experience
- Knowledge of procurement and source to pay methods at small and medium businesses
- Experience influencing at all levels within an organization, particularly at the executive level
- Experience exceeding sales targets using a consultative, solutions-focused approach or equivalent
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