Summary

The Account Executive is responsible for delivering sales results within his/her assigned geography.  This individual will leverage the entire suite of Internap services to attain his/her assigned sales quota including: Cloud (Agile), Managed Hosting, Colocation, IP Services, and CDN. A successful AE has exceptional organizational skills; written and verbal communication skills; a demonstrated ability to multi-task; and a strong desire to prospect and close New Logo business. He/she is a high-intensity, ‘hunter’ with a demonstrated track record of aggressively building a funnel and translating opportunities into orders.  Industry related selling experience and/or technical competency are strongly preferred.   

Responsabilities :

• Complete all company required training, but pro-actively seek and obtain the knowledge/capabilities to enable sales success in your market.
• Understand and articulate (orally, written, PowerPoint presentation) the company value proposition into specific customer benefits
• Build the sales funnel:
  • “Cold” lead development – telesales, hosted industry events (open-houses, product demos, etc), cold-calling, follow-up marketing lead generated opportunities, etc.
  • “Warm” lead development – existing account expansion, RFP response, former account recovery, etc.
• Meet/exceed sales quotas
• Identify and develop partners to accelerate sales (agents, datacenter partners, etc)
• Attend training on sales techniques, technology, presentation skills.
• Develop familiarity with Salesforce.com and utilize as basis for: contact management database, sales opportunity tracking, sales forecast and report generation.

Technical skills and abilities:

• Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.
• Ability to overcome customers’ objections.
• Effective stand up presentation skills
• Effective listening skills.
• Excellent written and electronic communication skills.
• Maintains professional appearance and demeanor.
• Ability to work collaboratively with all departments on sales issues.
• Demonstrates high standards of ethical conduct.
• Self starter with positive, optimistic attitude.
• Ability to develop an effective sales call plan.

Qualifications and work experience:

• BA/BS degree required or Associates Degree with 5+ years of relevant work and industry experience.
• MBA Desired.
• 5 yr+ outside sales experience with consistent > 100% quota attainment.
• Preferred outside sales experience in telecommunications, data or Internet industry.