Vodafone Ghana wanted for immediate employment by Vodafone Ghana
Key Accountabilities:
Support Sales Manager
• Provide account data to the NCBC Sales Manager for developing a sales plan and monitoring its implementation.
Leadership
• Leadership of a virtual account team to meet targets for profitability and revenues.
Ensure strategies/plans are in place for accounts
• Develop contact strategies and account development plans (ADP) for each of the named accounts.
Manage sales process
• Develop a pipeline of prospects which are systematically qualified, managing the decision-making process within named accounts to ensure sales prospects are closed.
Map NCBC value propositions to fill identified gaps of named accounts
• Exercise thought leadership at Board level within the named accounts, demonstrating an understanding of the business strategies and communications dependencies of the customer; presenting the compelling value proposition of NCBC Sales.
Input into development needs of self and virtual team
• Identify sales training and development needs and manage skills enhancement for self and the virtual account team.
Ensure all systems are updated
• Ensure any systems such as CRM (Customer Relationship Management) or SFA (Sales Field-Force Automation) are keep updated to increase the professionalism of account management.
Assure quality throughout sales process
• Full integration of quality management processes within all sales activities for the namted accounts, ensuring effective deployment on a day-to-day basis.
Ensure achievement of KPIs
• Use relevant metrics and measures to routinely monitor progress against targets and take appropriate action to ensure targets are met or exceeded.
Provision of timely sales data
• Provide sales performance data to support management decision-making.
Legal and Regulatory
• Ensure full compliance with telecommunications licence provisions, sector regulations and competition laws.
Relationship Management
• Maintain effective working relationships with internal and external suppliers.
Qualification Required & Experience
• Business studies degree or equivalent
• 3 years’ experience of telecommunications sales account management in an enterprise solutions environment
• Consultative-based selling skills
• Contribute to the NCBC sales strategy and decision-making processes, providing relevant inputs.
• Detailed understanding of the enterprise solutions needs of the Ghana’s Telecommunications sector.
• Ability to exercise "thought leadership" throughout NCBC and customer organisations.
• Self motivated and self starting, with the resilience to drive sales opportunities through to their final successful conclusion.
• A solid commercial understanding of how NCBC products can be applied to create commercial value in customer businesses.
• Ability to effectively represent NCBC.
• Ability to lead and manage a corporate account team, motivating others to achieve targets.
• Analytical thinker who can plan/execute action to exploit sales opportunities.
• Ability to understand the needs of employees and to apply best practice people management techniques to ensure a motivated and productive work force.
• Ability to present compelling business cases for capital investment in enterprise solutions.
• Utmost professional integrity
Location: Upper East
How To Apply For The Job
careers.vodafone.com.gh/Careers/List/Account-Manager.aspx