Sales Executive
Rackspace Technology
Job Summary
Rackspace is looking for ambitious sales professionals with strong communication skills to join their Enterprise New Business sales team. The role involves managing the full sales life cycle, including prospecting, discovery, proposing solutions, negotiating, and closing deals for complex server configurations. The ideal candidate will have excellent negotiation and follow-up skills, the ability to work under pressure, and meet sales quotas. They should be proficient in presenting via WebEx, face-to-face meetings, and phone calls. The position also requires contributing to the Rackspace culture and suggesting improvements.
Must Have
- Meet and exceed monthly sales quota
- Manage full sales cycle
- Understand prospect business needs
- Build cross-functional relationships
- Adhere to security policies
- Professional sales training
- Experience selling professional services
- Proven track record in new business development
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Moderate negotiation skills
- Communication skills
- Accurate forecasting skills
- Consultative sales approach
Good to Have
- IT Manager/Director and C Level Players with leadership support
- Engage with channel partners
Perks & Benefits
- Named a best place to work
Job Description
- Meet and exceed monthly sales quota through outbound/ inbound leads strategically selling the company’s various propositions to new prospects in a consultative manner.
- Responsible for full sales cycle from prospecting, discovery, education and thought leadership, solution proposing, negotiating, closing and working closely with the implementation teams to deliver the solution. This will include reacting to inbound opportunities and proactively generating leads. Responsible for accurately managing your forecast throughout the lifecycle of the opportunity (via “SalesForce”).
- Work closely with Solutions Engineers to perform presales feasibility assessments to ensure that Rackspace solutions meet the customer requirements and what customization would be required.
- Develop and maintain a clear understanding of your prospects business needs and how Rackspace’s solutions can enable current and future requirements. Where appropriate drive Rackspace product teams to develop new propositions
- Build cross functional relationships within the prospect in order to penetrate the account further by focusing on C level engagement.
- Engage with channel partners to find and develop new opportunities.
- Responsible for adhering to company security policies and procedure as directed.
- Monthly target achieved through successful execution of sales leads and account penetration
- Typical duration of sales cycles should be 2-6 months
- KPIs, documentation, process tracked via Salesforce.com.
- Professional Sales training and sales process knowledge (e.g. Spring, Scotsman, Miller Heiman, CCV, VBS)
- Must have experience selling professional services.
- Must have a proven track record in new business development.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent and/or relevant commercial experience.
- Moderate negotiation skills
- Communication skills
- Accurate forecasting skills
- Consultative sales approach selling the value proposition
- IT Manager/Director and C Level Players with leadership support
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About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
More on Rackspace Technology
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.