Overview
The Account Executive is the catalyst behind Frontier Communications’ success as an organization. As a consultative sales professional, the Medium Business Account Executive is responsible for driving revenue growth and bringing in net new business from prospects and current customers into the medium segment accounts. Medium Business Account Executives help solve the business needs of prospects and customers by aligning their needs and objectives with Frontier’s solution(s). Medium Business Account Executives own all opportunities and customers in the medium account segment and are responsible for coordinating resources and managing the sales campaign across the entire opportunity pipeline.
Strategic Value of Role
Increase Frontier valuation within medium segment accounts by:
Role
Your role as a Medium Business Account Executive is to close net new business and retain the existing customer base which you are assigned to. As a Medium Business Account Executive, you are responsible for all opportunities and accounts assigned to you in the medium segment which are likely to fall across a myriad of industries. This responsibility requires the management of both pre and post-sales support resources throughout sales campaigns. A Medium Business Account Executive reports to a Regional Sales Manager.
The Medium Business Account Executive team is responsible for all customers and opportunities in their segment across Frontier’s business. They fulfill a vital role of leveraging leads provided by Marketing, prospecting new leads, handling different kinds of sales scenarios and ultimately closing sales opportunities. The Medium Business Account Executive’s main goal is to turn as many opportunities into closed-won deals as possible. Once an opportunity has been closed, the Medium Business Account Executive’s job is to help manage the initial phases of post-sales support and ensure implementation is set up according to the commitment.. This is achieved through the support of additional resources - such as Pre-Sale Technicians and Sales Engineers and Post-Sale Project Managers, Engineers, and Customer Service Advisors – whose goal is to help you close and fulfill the deal.
Competencies
Summary of competencies necessary to be successful in this position:
Selling Skills |
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Sales Approach |
Handling different sales scenarios; setting agenda; using Call Plans; following sales process guidance and tool usage; adopting best practices; serving as a sales role model to others; thought-leading customers
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Closing Ability |
Winning sales campaigns after they have progressed past Needs Development; closing late stage deals; developing reasons for prospects to act; overcoming late stage deal obstacles; winning confidence and support of late stage new entrants to the sales campaign; experiencing late stage delay
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Objection Handling |
Planning and assessing level of objection risk; achieving success in sales campaigns when obstacles are presented from customers, due to competitive pressure, prices restrictions, or unforeseen external challenges; following corporate objection handling guidelines; advancing sales campaigns by handling objections
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Negotiation |
Demonstrating use of give-get framework; developing innovative win-win solutions to deal-killing challenges; demonstrating best practices to uncover company-viable solution options from the client's view; guiding customers in viewing a situation from more than their own parochial interest; developing solutions that leave all parties with a sense of deal satisfaction; building trust through multiple communication methods; dealing with and managing negotiations independently
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Retaining Customers |
Gaining customer loyalty; possessing personal connections with accounts; asking for references; preventing customer attrition; serving as a trusted advisor; generating repeat business
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Lead Management |
Converting qualified leads provided by Marketing into sales Opportunities; meeting lead follow-up timeframes; returning to nurture those leads that don't meet BANT criteria; qualifying leads; handling lead volume; using digital body language and other communications cues to start sales campaigns; optimizing lead creation, lead management, and lead conversion; utilizing marketing automation and social networking tools to stimulate demand; leveraging Marketing-produced personas and other segmentation work; tracking Lead activity in CRM as distinct from sales Opportunities |
Capitalizing on Time |
Maximizing time spent selling; tracking time spent across multiple activities; reaching prospects/customers at most convenient times for them for sales-oriented discussions; accommodating customers across multiple time zones; accomplishing non-selling activity during non-peak selling hours
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Intellectual |
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Education |
Investing time and effort in personal development and professional education; leveraging academic pedigree; self-educating on customer's business environment; applying learning's in a consultative fashion to advance business deals; possessing thought leadership in business and personal settings
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Motivational |
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Passion |
Exhibiting passionate intensity in work life; describing job, role, work and company to others; translating to customers an infectious enthusiasm for the solution/product; leaving impression in language, tone and behavior; presenting professional content in a zealous and passionate way; exhibiting high spirits in situations where others are downcast or negative
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Social Selling |
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Social Reach |
Establishing a strong virtual network of peers, customers, and executive buyers; Can build and connect with Personas through virtual messaging; Relies on a strong network to generate new logo, upsell, and cross-sell opportunities, leverages relationships to build connections in difficult to penetrate accounts. |
Responsibilities
Frontier is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law
Candidate must have a valid State driver’s license and clean driving record.
1. Kind and length of experience: · Minimum of 1 – 2 years of business-to-business sales experience in a high activity sales group. (Includes significant prospecting through cold calling and networking). · One-year minimum of General Telecommunication’s experience. · Experienced at establishing and maintaining relationships at all levels of a customer’s organization.
Candidate must have a valid State drivers license and clean driving record.