Account Executive

Join our Growing Team! As a pro-active Account Executive with Paladin Technologies, you will be responsible for achieving sales revenue goals, developing, and maintaining valued customer relationships, expanding the company’s current customer base, and developing and maintaining professional selling skills. Your business development skills combined with your technical knowledge of the market and contacts within the industry will lead to success. Your business acumen and ability to communicate with stakeholders and effectively identify opportunities will be crucial to ensuring the success of our client engagements.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the creation of your annual sales plan and develop your strategic approach for your market to increase sales in all company service offerings including integrated security, networking/data cabling, and/or commercial audio-visual. 
• Pursue relationships with existing client base, while generating new business to expand customer base. 
• Target and develop business with new clients to secure profitable relationships. 
• Work collaboratively with Operations, IT, Engineering, and other corporate departments to drive penetration of integrated security systems. 
• Propose and present new solutions for security, integrated systems technologies, and infrastructure. 
• Follow up on all sales leads and maintain CRM activities, opportunities, and forecasting. 
• Monitor competitive landscape for changing security technology and trends to ensure Paladin’s offerings are leading edge and to add value to our clients through leveraging their existing technology. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Extensive outside Sales experience in a technical sales environment, ideally from the integrated security, networking/data cabling and/or commercial audio-visual industries 
• Experience selling complex integrated solutions involving access control, CCTV, intrusion systems, structured cabling, corporate AV, or other related systems is preferred
• Experience selling in related industries (IT, Telecommunications, engineering, technology) will be considered 
• Experience selling into related sectors including gaming, healthcare, industrial construction, government, education, defense, utilities is considered an asset
• Knowledge of the following technologies is required: IP networks, low voltage electronics, power and communications, Windows XP or 7 workstations, Microsoft Office products 
• Experience with the following technologies is an asset: Access Control, CCTV (IP), Intrusion Systems, Client-Servicer security applications, MS SQL databases, Server and Storage Infrastructure. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 3 - 5 years industry experience
• Continuing education is highly valued – Technical, Associate’s, Bachelor’s degree or security industry certifications

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES:

• Results oriented networking and prospecting.
• Excellent customer relation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal skills in one on one and large group situations.
• Excellent inter-personal skills including client and employee relations.
• Ability to organize workload for effective implementation.
• Ability to multi-task while working under deadlines and time constraints.
• Efficient in standard business software (Microsoft Office, Outlook, Onenote, Visio).
• Ability to interact effectively at all levels and across diverse cultures.
• Ability to function as an effective team member in a collaborative sales environment.
• Ability to adapt as the external environment and organization evolves.

Physical Demands

In general, the following physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

• Must be able to effectively communicate, (i.e., see, hear, speak, and write clearly) in order to communicate with colleagues and/or customers; manual dexterity required for occasional reaching, lifting of light office objects, and operating office equipment
• Position is a desk job requiring the use of computer, keyboard, and phone

Working Conditions

In general, the following conditions of the work environment are representative of those that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• The office is clean, orderly, properly lighted, and ventilated. Noise levels are considered low to moderate
• This is an office-based position

Salary: $60k - $75k Base + Commission Program (DOE)

Benefits
Colleagues and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, company provided basic life insurance and AD&D and short-term disability, telemedicine & virtual counseling. Voluntary insurances offered include life insurance and AD&D, short-term disability (buy-up option), long-term disability, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance, and HSA & FSA accounts. Colleagues may also enroll in the company’s 401(k) plan. Colleagues will also receive PTO (paid time off), sick leave, and 7 paid holidays.