Account Executive

Flexential Corp.•Nashville, TN

29d•$220,000 - $270,000•Remote

About The Position

The Account Executive is responsible for achieving revenue targets within an assigned sales territory by acquiring new customers and strategic business prospects. This role focuses on generating new opportunities, managing the full sales cycle, and selling our full line of data center services, including colocation, cloud, and managed services, to organizations not yet engaged with our solutions. The successful candidate will possess a strong track record of new business sales success and must demonstrate exceptional critical thinking, negotiation, organizational, and time‑management skills. This role is ideal for someone experienced in technology sales who consistently succeeds using a consultative sales process such as Solution Selling.

Requirements

3+ years of experience demonstrating a documented path of sales success
A successful documented path of sales success selling to prospects
Solid track record calling on business decision makers within the IT organization in a highly competitive market
Proven ability to build relationships throughout the customer organization
Experience selling managed services, IT Infrastructure, software-as-a-service or application hosting is ideal
Bachelor's degree or any combination of education & related experience that would demonstrate possession of the knowledge and abilities needed to achieve success in this position
Ability to travel to assigned territories
High-energy individual with a positive attitude, good teamwork skills and exceptional customer presentation experience
Strong questioning and listening skills.
Able to translate innate curiosity into account progress
Presents a professional and credible face to the customer and prospect
Self-directed, self-motivated and results oriented – possesses the drive and determination to succeed.
Willing to work hard, knows how to work smart
Persistent but pragmatic: willing to be flexible and adaptable to change
Critical thinker – can address the challenges presented during sales conversation
Possess the ability to continually self-educate to maintain a broad knowledge of complex products, services and selling skills

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

Meet and/or exceed all quota requirements.
Develop and execute sales territory plans.
Sell into an assigned set of prospects that currently do not do business with Flexential.
Determine and set the appropriate sales strategy to position and close complex sales opportunities in a competitive colocation, cloud and managed services market.
Develop and build relationships with prospective customer executives, technical staff and key strategic partners.
Develop technical responses and strategy for RFP’s as a member of the account team.
Manage multiple priorities and multi-task effectively.
Track prospect and sales activities in Salesforce.com.
Perform other duties as required and assigned.