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Senior Account Manager

Senior Account Manager

Teraco – A Digital Realty CompanyGauteng, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

Teraco Data Environments

2025 / 09 / 25 Gauteng

Job Reference Number : SAM_JB1

Department : Sales

Business Unit :

Industry : Information Technology

Job Type : Permanent

Positions Available : 1

Salary : Market Related

The primary role of this position is to develop business opportunities / hunt for new Teraco clients, selling with and through Teraco Partners, with a focus on Public Sector.

Responsibilities

Sales

  • Closing deals and achieving sales targets
  • Developing a target plan, 30 / 60 / 90 and following through on execution
  • Manage the sales cycle of technical, consultative solution sales
  • Understanding what the customer is looking to solve
  • Networking within the industry
  • Identifying new markets and business opportunities / threats / competitor activities and communicate back into the Teraco business
  • Pipeline management and reporting
  • Review of client’s business to understand what they do, how they do it and how they benefit from the Teraco Eco-Systems
  • Building relationships throughout client business levels to maximise depth of awareness of Teraco and create strategic relationships
  • Upsell Teraco products (e.g. interconnects, cabinets etc) and Value Added services (e.g. client portal etc) into clients
  • Conduct regular interactions with clients
  • Renegotiating contracts when required
  • Communicate clients offering to Teraco sales team
  • Ensure that client perception of Teraco service and offering is of the highest standard and communicating client issues / complaints into the formal Teraco channels
  • Resolving Account related enquiries and communicating with Internal departments to resolve issues.
  • Operating as the lead point of contact for all matters specific to client accounts
  • Develop trusted advisor relationships with key accounts, customer stakeholders and sponsors
  • Collaborate with sales team to identify and grow opportunities
  • Ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs
  • Liaison between the customer and internal teams

Churn prevention

  • Responding to possible churn timeously and taking action to prevent churn
  • Administration

  • Maintaining CRM with up-to-date client contacts and activity details.
  • Negotiating any additional terms in the supply of services
  • Reporting and communication

  • Building relationships throughout business levels to maximise depth of awareness of Teraco and create strategic relationships
  • Personal Performance review report
  • Job Requirements

    Skills Requirement

  • Ability to close deals
  • Active listening – ability to understand requirements
  • Experience in the segment of Cloud, Networks and the services layer
  • Proactive problem solver
  • Ability to build effective client relationships through a structured and personable approach
  • Ability to identify and understand prospective customers colocation needs
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to communicate at all levels of the business; strong collaboration skills
  • Excellent problem solving and organisational skills.
  • Strong Negotiation Skills
  • Meticulous and analytical, disciplined with strong business acumen and cadence
  • Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team
  • Ability to prioritise among competing tasks
  • Demonstrable ability to communicate, present and influence key stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
  • Qualifications And Experience

  • Matric Qualifications and degree / diploma(s)
  • At least 10 years Account Management experience within the ICT sector
  • Proven track record in closing large accounts
  • Sales Executive with experience in the ICT sector dealing with partners and Public Sector
  • Good understanding of general cloud concepts and application
  • Advanced Microsoft Office skills
  • Experience and understanding of RFP process responses
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