Key Account Manager - Central (Texas Area)

Ampro ADLINK Technology, Inc.•,

2d•$100,000 - $125,000•Remote

About The Position

The surgical robot that assists a surgeon. The autonomous vehicle that navigates a warehouse floor. The train control system that keeps thousands of commuters on schedule. Somewhere inside that technology is an ADLINK product. Ampro ADLINK Technology designs and manufactures embedded computing hardware for industries where failure is not an option. Industrial automation, robotics, autonomous vehicles, healthcare, and intelligent transportation are just some of the markets we serve. Our products sit at the edge of these systems, processing data and providing real-time control where it happens, when it happens, not in a distant cloud. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Taiwan, we operate across the US, UK, Singapore, China, Japan, Korea, and Germany with products deployed in more than 40 countries. Our San Jose office drives our business across the Americas and works closely with technology partners, including Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, and NXP. If you are an experienced sales professional who wants to sell to some of the most exciting companies in the world, autonomous vehicle manufacturers, casino gaming platforms, medical device makers, robotics innovators, and more, ADLINK gives you a genuine competitive edge. Our technology is deeply embedded in our customers' products, which means long-term relationships, recurring business, and deals that are worth winning. The right individual is a talented, experienced, and highly competitive sales professional that thrives in an outbound proactive prospecting role and will be responsible for evangelizing, promoting, and selling ADLINK’s products to new and existing customers within a region. The successful candidate will play a fundamental role in achieving our customer acquisition and revenue growth objectives in the Central US territory. The Key Account Manager is a remote. Approximately 50% travel may be required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in any discipline.
3+ years of work experience in any industry.
Strategic Thinking - Systematically solves problems and hypothesizes possible customer pain points, expectations, and implicit needs; brainstorms with team members to devise solutions to solve complex deal challenges.
Communication - Tailors communication to the customer’s needs with authority; effectively delivers presentations and has strong verbal and written communication skills.
Interpersonal Influence - Uses rational and emotion drives that would appeal to customers to drive negotiation conversations in his or her favor.
Networking - Identifies the right customer stakeholders and builds connections quickly to drive consensus for deals; works cooperatively with a wide range of internal stakeholders for deal success.
Workflow Management - Highly organized with a rapid, yet methodical approach. Sets clear time-bound objectives that align with business growth.
Negotiation - Experience in large complex deal negotiations with a successful track record.
Ownership - Goes out of his or her way to complete a job with relentless drive to achieve results; is independent and self-directed.

Responsibilities

Develop new OEM accounts.
Design and implement sales strategies to ensure the company meets its revenue and design win objectives.
Use insight and consultative selling techniques to teach customers about their industry and offer unique perspectives on their business, which link back to ADLINK’s solutions.
Research prospective organizations and identify the right customer stakeholders to sell to.
Coach customer stakeholders and build consensus for ADLINK solutions within their organization.
Leverage the Challenger Sales methodology and an insights-driven sales processes, along with a current knowledge of industry and technical trends, to customize solutions for customer needs and business goals.
Independently and collaboratively strategize for solving deal level challenges.
Regularly update an accurate and robust pipeline of business opportunities and forecasts in SFDC with latest customer information and use customer intelligence for account planning.
Prepare weekly and monthly territory sales forecasts and maintain your sales pipeline.
Track weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance and sales metrics.
Experience aligning business outcomes and initiatives with technology requirements.
Manage rep partners.
Support and manage the relationships with all assigned customers, ensuring high customer satisfaction.
Cooperate in the annual planning process with Sales management, setting key objectives: design win and revenue targets, new customer targets, new opportunity creation goals, etc.
Customer visits including giving technical presentations and product overviews to customers.
As a trusted advisor, build in-depth knowledge of clients’ business priorities, challenges and initiatives that can be translated into additional ADLINK opportunities.
This a remote role, but travel is required in this role (customer meetings within territory, annual sales events, etc.).