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Job Purpose
The Strategic Account Manager's purpose is to develop business with new accounts and footprint expansion within existing named accounts of the defined territory. The primary goal of the role is to meet revenue objectives and maximize AVEVA solutions and services within these accounts.
The Account Manager
• Is an independent, seasoned professional who has experience working in a complex sales environment.
• Directs their account team to uncover and drive new revenue generation and is solely accountable for all commercial activity within the account from opportunity inception to contract closure.
• Maximizes revenue growth and customer outcomes through a robust cross-portfolio sales strategy that utilizes the AVEVA Strategic Sales Plays, focusing on delivering the most impact to our customers' business.
• Identifies, pursues, and develops C- Level client relationships and, through the course of these interactions, deepen their understanding of their client's digital initiatives and business drivers. These relationships will secure AVEVA's position as a strategic partner providing significant value to the customer through transformational sales initiatives.
Principal Responsibilities
• Meet or exceed quarterly revenue targets supporting the regional business.
• Define and execute your Account Manager Business Plan, which outlines your strategic and tactical approaches for achieving your targets
• Plan and organize all related sales activities starting from prospecting through to closing business in line with the Framework of ONE AVEVA
• Comply with AVEVA's Processes and Policies and other written and verbal communication from the management.
• Analyze your ongoing performance against your plan to develop monthly reporting, including long-term account strategies with current and proposed activities, customer visits, revenue status, and revenue forecast.
• Maintain and develop the customer pipeline following the stage-gate forecasting protocols and maintain all activity within AVEVA's CRM solution. Important Working Relationships In addition to maintaining strong working relationships with all regional Sales Management, Marketing, Solution Strategy, Global Business Development, and Consultants, the Strategic Account Manager will keep a close working relationship with the regional Partner Sellers, Legal & Contracting groups, and Technical Pre & Post Sales organizations to ensure accurate communication of requirements and client expectations.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required
• You will possess experience (at least 8-15 years) in a sales, account management, or business development role selling software solutions serving Owner Operators, EPC's, or Design consultants.
• You will possess experience (at least 4 years) with IT solutions and the business processes associated with the industries served by AVEVA and are likely to have worked for an IT solutions provider, EPC, Owner Operator, or technology consultancy.
• You must be insightful about the customer's business and must be able to investigate and uncover their most important problems to solve, matching AVEVA's solutions to them where appropriate.
• You will preferably be degree qualified or have a professional qualification. • You will be a self-starter, able to work to develop new client engagements through the entire sales cycle.
• You will be skilled and experienced in operating at various levels, from end-user to senior decision-makers within AVEVA's target customer base, aligning their business problems with our technology solutions.
• You must have an excellent understanding of the business benefits of the AVEVA solutions and services. Ability to describe the product benefits and any special offers and advise how these may benefit customers personally.
• You will have good commercial and analytical skills to help identify market trends and opportunities for your nominated territory, creating dynamic business and account plans to exploit such opportunities.
• You will have strong communication skills in all forms - written, oral, email, presentation, and have strong English language skills.
• You will be personable, be a strong team player, and positively conduct challenging business and commercial conversations with customers. Ideal Candidate will have domain expertise and relationships in LNG, Chemical, Midstream, or EPC companies.
Salary Range:
$119,600.00 - $199,400.00
This pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation that the position offers, and final compensation can vary within the range depending on work location, job experience, skills, and relevant educational attainment and/or training.
USA Benefits: Competitive salary; high quality healthcare; 401(k) with 6% employer match; FSA and supplemental insurance; paid parental leave; 20 days PTO with increase for time served; 7 days of sick time; 3 days paid volunteering; flexible lifestyle benefits (commuter plans, backup care, emergency leave and fitness/education reimbursement opportunities)
AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.
AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business. AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify AVEVA at [email protected]. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Come and join AVEVA to create the transformative technology that enables our customers to engineer a better world.
What We Do
AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software, sparking ingenuity to drive responsible use of the world’s resources. The company’s secure industrial cloud platform and applications enable businesses to harness the power of their information and improve collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners.
Over 20,000 enterprises in over 100 countries rely on AVEVA to help them deliver life’s essentials: safe and reliable energy, food, medicines, infrastructure and more. By connecting people with trusted information and AI-enriched insights, AVEVA enables teams to engineer efficiently and optimize operations, driving growth and sustainability.
Named as one of the world’s most innovative companies, AVEVA supports customers with open solutions and the expertise of more than 6,400 employees, 5,000 partners and 5,700 certified developers. With operations around the globe, AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK.
Learn more at www.aveva.com