Senior Account Manager-business Sales

Verizon Verizon · Telecom · Irving, TX

This role is for a Senior Account Manager in Business Sales at Verizon. The primary focus is on identifying, developing, and closing new business opportunities, as well as managing and growing existing accounts. The role involves consulting with customers to understand their business challenges and recommending tailored solutions, including cloud, security, ISP, VoIP, and Google platforms. While the role mentions leveraging AI and advanced CRM tools through the Velocity Selling methodology for efficiency and personalized customer approaches, the core responsibilities are sales-focused rather than AI/ML development.

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. Expected travel may be up to approximately 50% of the time.
  • Valid driver’s license.

Nice to have

  • A degree - Associates or Bachelor's Degree or certifications/college courses.
  • Two or more years of business-to-business sales experience.