Lead - Business Development
- Full-Time
- Dallas, TX
- AT&T
- Posted 3 years ago – Accepting applications
Lead - Business Development
Overall Purpose:The Lead - Business Development is responsible for building/maintaining relationships with customer, account planning/strategy, and pursuing new sales opportunities.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Working with IOT and Strategic Account Teams, create existing/new sales for delivery of solutions meeting a wide variety of customer needs for AT&T products/services/systems/solutions, with a focus on Internet of Things (IOT).
- With the aid of support resources, identifies sales opportunity solutions.
- Builds/maintains network of colleagues/customers to share information and obtain prospects.
- May support resolution of customer disputes and accounts receivable discrepancies (i.e. billing/installation/customer issues).
- Establishes/maintains productive long-term client relationships.
- Supports in presenting products, services and migrations that can benefit customer needs.
- Demonstrates broad and strong working knowledge of the organization’s entire product/service line.
- Partners with clients to understand business needs, issues, strategies, priorities to deliver valuable solutions.
- Develops responses to Request for Proposals.
- Identifies key trends and customer needs, leverages industry knowledge/applications, utilizes consultative skills to close sales for assigned accounts in accordance with company policy, procedures and culture.
- Owns account relationship; responsible for meeting revenue objectives.
- Demonstrates sustained record of sales achievement.
- Effectively influences customers to diffuse potential problems.
- Aids in devising direct sales plans/strategies.
- May develop strategic initiatives to grow/retain the revenue stream of complex accounts/projects.
- May support less sales team through coaching or mentoring.
- Works on complex projects.
- Creates presentation materials for internal approval from Officers or Executives of AT&T and affiliates.
Duties directly related to making sales include:
Meeting with customers and engaging in sales activities at customer site; communicating with customers via phone, teleconference, e-mail, etc. related to proposed solutions/sales, etc.; traveling to/from the customer premise for sales activities; providing subject matter expertise on technical sales issues; advising customers on suitability of products based on technical needs; preparing proposals/presentations/bids, including developing pricing/strategic plans and proposed solutions/sales; researching/developing solutions with AT&T external partners, including design/engineering; researching customer business/industry to identify new sales opportunities.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience:
3-5 years of experience in business sales related fields.
Supervisory: No.
Once you’re a part of the team, you’ll gain some amazing perks and benefits like: a competitive base salary + bonus, medical/dental coverage, 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, paid training and paid time off. We also provide 50% employee discount on:
- AT&T internet & fiber
- AT&T phone (formerly U-verse Voice)
- DIRECTV (including Free HBO & NFL Sunday Ticket) or U-verse TV
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