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Sales Manager MAE I Blantyre
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND , Diploma
- Experience5 - 7 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldSales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development 
What You'll Bring:
- Responsible for achieving revenue quotas for large strategic, opportunity clients by hunting for new opportunities, client acquisitions, additional solution sales at enterprise or large sized clients
- Develops sales strategies to grow revenue from existing and new sales opportunities.
- Connects client accounts and new clients to TU’s solutions with real impact and measurable results by developing business value analysis (e.g. ROI) and providing strategic advice.
- Participates in and/or ensure quality in customer engagements with the most strategic customers and deliver increased customer satisfaction and better opportunities for TU.
- Develops three year strategic view of client base detailing transformational ideas.
- Owns the C-Suite relationship.
- Facilitates ideation, white boarding sessions to optimize share shift opportunities.
- Understands competitor awareness to maximize penetration in markets held by the competition and foster partnerships with new and existing customers.
- Understands client’s financials to co-create effective strategies to identify opportunities.
- Uses prolonged silences and handles objections to seller advantage.
- Properly interprets verbal and physical cues to gauge customer reaction and interest.
- Diagnoses when customer is unclear and ensures comprehension.
- Establishes deep and effective relationships with all key clients due to credible and influential network.
- Acts consistently with the organizations values and ensures that words and actions are consistent.
- Understands TU workflow and value chain, understand internal client delivery processes in order to ensure C-Suite satisfaction.
- Creates opportunities to provide a unique or contrarian perspective during commercial conversations.
- Works with clients to understand CBI's and positions TU as a partner to jointly solve problems.
- Engages with clients in a manner that makes them feel they own the solution.
- Utilizes probing and questioning techniques to understand client context, client’s strategic drivers and gaps to fix problems.
- Develops and implements solutions to assist clients.
- Has diverse commercial and deal structuring acumen.
- Develops sales tactic plans that caters for what is the action item and what are the results by when.
- Reviews client industry standards, follow industry trends.
- Management of pipeline opportunities to engage directly with partners and product management teams to close opportunities.
- Meets or exceeds monthly and yearly Sales Revenue and Gross Profit target goals.
- Maintains all customer records in Salesforce CRM database.
- Develops and manages a 30 day forecast and 60-90-120 day pipeline within CRM.
- Provides weekly and monthly forecasts to management.
- Participates in marketing events such as seminars, trade shows, and webinar marketing events.
- Conducts early customer engagement and registering of opportunities with key vendor partners early in the sales cycle to get special pricing for developing the opportunity.
Impact You'll Make:
- Degree or Diploma with five to seven years of advanced consultative solution-selling experience.
- Proven history of meeting/exceeding yearly quotas.
- Demonstrated sales experience in selling data driven solutions.
- Must have the ability to present to “C” level audience.
- Focused, ambitious self-starter who exhibits attention to detail with excellent organizational skills.
- Eagerness to learn complex enterprise software and hardware solutions to enable successful development of sales opportunities.
- A team player capable of working within a collaborative environment and making contributions when appropriate.
- Experience in structuring large business deals with knowledge of different commercial constructs and how these can be used.
- Demonstrate outstanding analytical and problem solving skills, and strong management consulting skills to influence thinking or gain acceptance of multiple customer constituencies.
- Good negotiation skills
- Strategic Thinker
- Problem Solver
- Deep Industry knowledge /case studies and trend
- Influential network
- Hunter Skillset
Method of Application Interested and qualified? Go to TransUnion on transunion.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com to apply
