Business Sales Account Executive

Verizon Verizon · Telecom · Billings, MT

This role is for a Business Sales Account Executive at Verizon. The primary focus is on identifying, developing, and closing new business opportunities within a designated sales territory. The role involves consulting with customers to understand their business challenges and recommending tailored solutions, including leveraging Verizon's technology offerings like Cloud, Security, ISP, VoIP, and Google platforms. The sales approach is supported by Verizon's Velocity Selling methodology, which utilizes AI and advanced CRM tools to enhance efficiency and customer engagement. While AI tools are used to support the sales process, the core function of the role is sales, not AI development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identifying, developing and qualifying leads within respective territory to drive additional sales opportunities through cold-calling, partner-selling, lead-generation campaigns and modern social selling techniques.
  2. Gaining new business and incremental revenue to meet sales targets.
  3. Retaining, managing and growing the existing customer base.
  4. Coordinating with support partners to educate and excite customers about how they can leverage innovative business solutions.
  5. Proactively establishing, building and maintaining relationships with key decision makers.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
  • Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.
  • Experience in outside sales, prospecting and negotiation.
  • Willingness to work in a mobile working model with travel within your assigned geographic sales territory.

Nice to have

  • ability to efficiently manage your time
  • excellent customer relations skills
  • excitement for technology
  • sales experience
  • cold-calling
  • partner-selling
  • lead-generation campaigns
  • modern social selling techniques
  • wireless and mobility products
  • integrated software solutions
  • Cloud
  • Security
  • ISP
  • VoIP
  • Google platforms
  • sales force automation tools
  • self-motivated
  • crafting the right solution
  • explaining complex technology
  • meeting new people
  • discovering needs
  • seeking advice and counsel
  • closing deals
  • acting with integrity
  • team player

What the JD emphasized

  • sales experience
  • customer relations skills
  • technology
  • sales targets
  • sales force automation tools
  • outside sales
  • prospecting
  • negotiation