Hybrid Senior Account Manager, Central

at Office Depot

• Job title: Senior Account Manager, Central
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $70,000 - $100,000 per year
• Degree requirement: High School Diploma
• Tech skills: SFDC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Sr. Account Manager focusing on increasing account penetration and servicing revenue for ODP Business Solutions. Responsible for traveling within territory to meet customers and drive sales.

Responsibilities

• Existing account penetration: Responsible for traveling within the assigned territory to make sales or solicit orders or contracts.
• Responsible for growing share of wallet in customers who have spend with ODP Business Solutions today by selling more of current products, greater range of products, or new category of products into the end customer.
• Responsible for selling both office supply and non-office supply categories, pulling in specialists as needed to support greater category penetration.
• Servicing existing revenue: Responsible for making sales or soliciting orders or contracts.
• For those customers in territory with current spend, the rep is responsible for servicing the existing revenue, pulling in customer service or sales support as needed to keep customer satisfied.
• This includes bids, contract negotiations and request for proposals and will be involved in re-bidding existing contracts.
• Takes responsibility and ownership for data integrity and accuracy of work products and creative with business planning and implementing sales initiatives.
• Maintains customer information in ODP Business Solutions CRM.
• Responsible for customer and company requirements and being a thought leader in developing selling strategies and training co-workers.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent, Bachelors preferred
• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in related field
• Minimum of Five (5) years or more of Strategic Account Sales and/or Management experience; Eight (8) years preferred with a proven record of exceeding monthly goals at the C-Suite level.
• Proficient in MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of CRM tools (i.e., Salesforce.com)
• Successful history of B2B selling to large enterprise accounts
• Hunter mindset to existing customers and negotiate new, renewed, or amended contracts
• Strong presentation ability required since they develop customer-centric solutions and deliver sales proposals on product features and benefits
• Conduct tactful and mutually beneficial complex contract negotiations and conversations with C-Level executives and key decision makers
• Ability to multitask, as well as work efficiently and effectively within required deadlines
• The ability to learn quickly and apply that knowledge, along with the ability to work in a team environment
• Has the aptitude to learn the product suite and the ODP 5C way
• Ability to manage and foster change
• Ability to customarily and regularly travel to and from assigned territory to meet with the customers.
• Coachable, yet has an entrepreneurial spirit
• Maintain and update databases with all required customer information in CRM
• Meet or exceed assigned revenue goals and sales quotas within assigned module of accounts.
• Valid driver license and safe driving record
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Competitive salaries
• Opportunity to move and grow within the organization
• Eligible to participate in an incentive program