Overview
CLOUD & CYBER SOLUTIONS SALES Jobs in Johannesburg at The Focus Group
The Focus Group Johannesburg, South Africa 20 February 2025 Mid / Senior 60000 – 80000 Full Time Cost to Company 8 years – 8 years Skills Cloud Architecture Cyber Security Telecommunication Industries Telecommunications Job Description
ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE A BACKGROUND SELLING CLOUD, CYBER SECURITY, LAYER TWO RELATED SERVICES ETC
ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE A BACKGROUND SELLING CLOUD, CYBER SECURITY, LAYER TWO RELATED SERVICES ETC
ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE A BACKGROUND SELLING CLOUD, CYBER SECURITY, LAYER TWO RELATED SERVICES ETC
ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE A BACKGROUND SELLING CLOUD, CYBER SECURITY, LAYER TWO RELATED SERVICES ETC
SALARY: R1m ctc guaranteed plus 40% comm
Main Purpose
To maximize revenue opportunities through establishing, developing and maintaining long-term relationships with strategic customers as well as defining and executing sales strategies that focus on increased sales and profitability.
Managing strategic accounts and delivering profitable, long-term revenue from nominated accounts.
Ensuring delivery of annual revenue targets through delivery of information, communication and technology solutions.
Establishing appropriate relationships with customers and leverages those relationships to achieve financial targets
Work collaboratively to set up service relationship for nominated accounts.
Serve as the primary relationship owner for an assigned group of top tier client accounts with responsibility to retain and grow these accounts.
Key Performance Areas
Deliver on Sales strategy (Target)
The Senior Key Account Manager will be assigned customer accounts that sit in the Top 350 company accounts to manage. Robust account plans to achieve sales objectives will need to be delivered. Account plans should include the revenue potential for 1-3 years and the associated strategy to achieve this revenue.
Implement commercial strategies and then execute in line with company policies.
Generate and maintain opportunity pipeline and credible business revenue forecasts order to meet sales targets.
Present Company services and offerings to assigned/new customers while leading account planning cycles and ensuring that the customers’ needs, and expectations are met.
Proactively assess, clarify and validate customer requirements on an on-going basis.
Implement a detailed sales strategy for all strategic accounts
Track and record sales activities on all accounts on SFDC.
Collaborating very closely with teams from other departments within Company. Partner with internal crossfunctional teams to understand customer goals and key performance metrics
Build and grow client Relationships to ensure excellent customer experience
Understand clients’ business and generate new ideas to improve the customers’ business. Expanding the customer stakeholders beyond ICT to strategic business owners (CMO, CFO, COO, CEO) who own the budget and/or can influence the buying decision.
Build trust, credibility, and client referrals.
Maintain or improve account profitability by customizing solutions as per customer requirements
Oversee the execution of the complete sales process for all customers, including: customer request handling, customer information gathering, finalisation of product specification and selection and SLA negotiation and finalisation
Ensure all after-sale customer queries or issues that come through sales department are properly handed over to customer care
Ensure all support departments are adequately briefed on customer details, to enable delivery of the order and adequate after sales customer support.
Conduct business professionally and ethically by adhering to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes
Resolve any issues and problems of Company customers and act as an interface between Company customer and the internal teams. Ensure that exceptional customer experience is achieved by timeously escalating interdepartmental problems
Maintaining a clear forecast of opportunities and developing a sales pipeline to reach sales targets
Responsible for generating leads and developing a revenue pipeline for the account for the next 1-3 years. Accountability for executing a gap plan if the revenue pipeline does not meet the assigned budget set for each Senior Key Account Manager
Identify and establish relationships in new and existing geography and segments
Provide pre-sales and after-sales assistance in bid/tender processes
Manage customer relationships with allocated and new clients
Deliver presentations and propose consultation- based solutions
Keep abreast of market changes and have a broad understanding of Information, Communication, Cloud and Technology Services. Utilize market dynamics, competitive pressure and best practices to formulate new strategic account value propositions.
Key Decisions:
Decides on account strategy and client account plan
Decides on Proposed Customer Solution
Decides on Partnerships and possible coloration with OEM’s
Decides on customer engagement
Decides on appropriate proposals for relevant client
Accountable for:
Accountable for delivering presentations and propose consultation-based solutions
Accountable for providing pre-sales and after-sales assistance in bid/tender processes
Accountable for generating leads and developing a pipeline for selected segment within Company
Accountable for customer relationships with allocated and new clients
Accountable for generating leads and developing a pipeline for all sales segments across Company
Accountable for tracking and recording sales activities on all accounts on SFDC
Title: CLOUD & CYBER SOLUTIONS SALES
Company: The Focus Group
Location: Johannesburg
