Consumer Channel Account Executive

Apple Apple · Big Tech · London, United Kingdom +1 · Sales and Business Development

This role is for a Consumer Channel Account Executive at Apple in London, UK. The primary responsibility is to drive sales performance for iPhone and attach products by building relationships with partners, negotiating programs, and developing capabilities to ensure a great customer experience. The role involves developing account plans aligned with partner strategies, identifying growth opportunities, and monitoring key performance indicators to support sales forecasts. Experience in consultative selling, channel growth strategies, and account executive roles for mobile devices or hardware companies is required. Preferred qualifications include understanding business financials, market analysis, customer-centricity, strong negotiation and influencing skills, teamwork, resilience, excellent communication and presentation abilities, and strategic thinking to create competitive solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive the sales performance of iPhone and attach products, delivering a sales target.
  2. Build deep relationships, negotiate programs, and develop capabilities to achieve a great physical and digital end-customer experience with results that benefit Apple and our Retail partners.
  3. Demonstrate a deep understanding of market trends and the UK Retail channel and develop comprehensive account plans that both align with our partners’ strategies and expand Apple's footprint.
  4. Work with internal and external partners to develop new and exciting growth opportunities, drive relevant market activities and ultimately ensure sales through our Retail partners.
  5. Monitor key performance indicators that support growth and enable forecasts on the overall health of our account plans.

Skills

Required

  • Consultative selling experience
  • Developing channel growth strategies with partners
  • Delivering on short-term goals while building sustainable value
  • Experience as an Account Executive for a mobile device or HW company
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Nice to have

  • Understanding of business financials and strategies for profitable growth
  • Market analysis and strategic thinking
  • Deep understanding of customer business needs
  • Strong negotiation and influencing skills
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Resilience and a "don't give up" attitude
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to integrate hardware, software, and services knowledge
  • Experience creating competitive and breakthrough strategies

What the JD emphasized

  • consultative selling
  • developing channel growth strategies
  • delivering on short-term goals
  • building sustainable value
  • demand for the future
  • Account Executive
  • mobile device or HW company
  • business financials
  • profitable growth
  • staying ahead of the competition
  • deeply understanding their business needs, challenges, and concerns
  • obsess over how people experience our products and services
  • exceed them
  • connect and influence the right people
  • settle disputes
  • negotiations
  • own the hard calls
  • step up to conflicts
  • contribute to your team
  • collaborative environment
  • empower your teammates
  • strive for excellence
  • don’t give up attitude
  • finish, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks
  • seize every opportunity
  • empower others to reach their goals
  • communication is key
  • actively talks and listens
  • expert at presenting
  • cool under pressure
  • make the complex simple
  • command an audience
  • empower others to learn
  • share your passion
  • deep knowledge of how our hardware, software and services integrate
  • solve complex business problems in simple and innovative ways
  • create competitive and breakthrough strategies
  • shape the future
  • asking why and why not
  • stripping out what is not essential
  • identifying what is
  • see what’s ahead
  • identify trends that will be critical for growth