Account Manager at Vodafone Group Enterprise (VGE)

Employment Nigeria 06-Jul-2017 LAGOS , Accounting

Vodafone Global Enterprise (VGE) provides innovative products and services to enable multi-national organisations to stay agile and competitive

POSITION : Channel Account Manager

DESCRIPTION

The Channel and Wholesale account manager focuses at building partnerships and selling via channel and wholesale partners, sell additional products and services through these mediums to maximize revenue for the business, minimise churn and adhere to sales processes including the use of approved applications (SAGE, and Share point).

Responsibilities

Develop relevant High Level Value Propositions.
Understand customer preferences, pricing, product, terms and conditions to ensure that their requirements are met; gather and analyse data regarding competitor pricing and products and ensure that Vodacom products and services fit customer requirements.
Provide timely and accurate forecasting.
Responsible for Ensuring the SAGE and Sales Database is always up-to-date.
Identify VCS sales prospect
Responsible for Sales/Sales Management for both new business development and management and growth of business in existing clients.
Works with global and regional third parties & partners to identify & qualify new opportunities
Work with relevant VCS/VGE Global Account Manager (GAM) to agree sales strategy and responsibilities within each account.
Work together with VCS/VGE GAMs & NAMs to develop action plans to ensure account strategies are executed upon
Work with relevant VCS/VGE Global Account Manager (GAM) to agree sales strategy and responsibilities within each account.
Work together with VCS/VGE GAMs & NAMs to develop action plans to ensure account strategies are executed upon
Develop relationships with customers for future development.
Identify ways to increase revenue share within existing accounts.
Responsible for all client communication, conflict resolution and compliance on deliverables.
Ensures that proper procedures are followed to meet quality standards and maintain account profitability.
Monitor account performance and ensure that the set targets are met.
Prepare necessary reports and maintain such reports in Sage database and SharePoint
Approves invoices and is responsible for account collections.
Provides two way communications between client and VBA Team.
Maintain strength of the VBA image and quality in front of the customer.
Lead planning and development of customer sales strategies to develop accounts in very close cooperation with the Line Manager where applicable.

Knowledge

Have the ability to manage own time to ensure market and product knowledge is up to date
Ensure sales and churn targets are achieved every month.
Work within given policies and processes of the VBA/VCS team.
Monitor account performance and ensure that the set targets are met
Prepare necessary reports and maintain such reports in VBA’s database
Work together with GAMs & NAMs to ensure Global account strategies are understood and actioned Pan-Africa for all assigned accounts.
Operate with the highest levels of communication skills, converse professionally and with empathy with an emphasis on owning and solving customer issues whilst building excellent rapport to ensure the customer experience is maximized.
Timely Updates of all relevant systems for managing opportunities and contracted services
Have an understanding of WCS and C-level selling
Demonstrate experience of working at multi-national C level and leverage strong financial tools such as ROI as part of the global sales engagement process.
Maintain expertise of internal procedures and systems (Sage, SharePoint, SAP, SFDC) for resigns and acquisitions and managing the progress of quotes through VBA/VCS/VGE commercial processes to contract production

Qualification

A good understanding of converged and networking technologies and services.
Proven successful account acquisition and development in a telecom environment- desirable
Demonstrated success in networking and relationship management skills.
Deep knowledge of mobile enterprise and fixed enterprise business in sales, business development, operations, technical sales
A university degree in B.Com/Business, marketing, computer Science, IT Degree or equivalent qualification.
A minimum of 3 years relevant working experience in account management especially channel sales is essential
Experience in solution sales and relationship management or enterprise solution selling within a telecom company.

Skills:

Building an effective partner channels network and selling through the network
Objection handling, negotiating and deal Closing
Build relationships and maintain networks
Analytical and usage of Microsoft applications

Attitude:

Effortlessly communicate anywhere and with anyone
Healthy level of self confidence
The right sales outlook
High level of self-motivation and self-accountability.

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Account Manager at Vodafone Group Enterprise (VGE)

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