Lead Strategic Account Manager

AT&T AT&T · Telecom · Courbevoie, France, Paris, France

This role is for a Lead Strategic Account Manager at AT&T, focused on driving revenue growth by developing and executing account strategies, selling products and services, fostering client relationships, and meeting sales quotas. The role involves client engagement, new client acquisition, relationship management with C-suite executives, global account leadership, strategic account planning, full sales cycle ownership, solution positioning, cross-functional collaboration, and pipeline management. It requires a minimum of 5 years of quota-carrying technology sales and account management experience, with a strong understanding of international telecommunications solutions. While the role mentions leveraging AI-driven tools for sales execution, the core function is sales and account management, not AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Understand client business challenges and priorities; proactively identify, create, and qualify new business opportunities that align with AT&T’s suite of solutions.
  2. Proactively identify, engage, and secure new clients whose business profiles are strategically aligned with the company’s acquisition roadmap, ensuring long-term growth and value creation.
  3. Build and Manage client relationships with CIOs and other ‘C’ suite executives in business, financial and technical conversations.
  4. Serve as the primary global point-of-contact for large, complex sales pursuits, including outsourcing and managed services, within multinational organizations.
  5. Develop and execute comprehensive account plans, mapping organizational networks, building deep client relationships, and identifying early-stage opportunities.

Skills

Required

  • Quota-carrying technology sales and account management experience
  • Direct new business acquisition
  • C-Level Engagement
  • International telecommunications solutions knowledge (WAN, LAN, Security, IoT, UC, SaaS)
  • Global virtual team leadership
  • Strong communicator
  • Negotiator
  • Customer-centric approach
  • Innovative approach
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Fluent English
  • Fluent French

Nice to have

  • Consultative, value-based selling methodologies
  • Analytical skills
  • Strategic thinking skills
  • Embracing new technologies like AI to enhance sales execution and maximize productivity

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum 5 years of quota-carrying technology sales and account management experience
  • Documented success in direct new business acquisition, consistently exceeding sales quotas in previous roles.
  • Proven ability to sell and negotiate with senior executives, including CIOs, CFOs, and CEOs.
  • Strong understanding of international telecommunications solutions, including WAN, LAN, Security, IoT, Unified Communications (UC), and SaaS.
  • Experience leading and collaborating with global virtual teams to deliver complex solutions.
  • Fluent English and French required.