Rackspace
Sales Executive II - IN - Remote
Job Summary
This role focuses on identifying, developing, and closing sales opportunities with new and existing customers, primarily within the cloud solutions sector. The candidate will manage the full sales cycle, build relationships with key stakeholders including C-suite executives, and leverage industry knowledge to differentiate Rackspace's offerings. Strong communication, negotiation, and account management skills are essential, along with an entrepreneurial mindset and team collaboration. The position emphasizes customer satisfaction, strategic account growth, and solution-oriented sales in a dynamic multicloud environment.
Required Skills
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Job Description
Cloud Sales -Level II - Night Shift - IN
Should have experience in supporting US- Region
Job Profile Summary :
Specializes in identifying, developing, and closing opportunities with new or existing customers that deliver incremental profitable growth and positive customer experiences. Owns and develops customer relationships, collaborating with both customers and internal resources to address customer and company priorities. Leverages subject matter experts and provides solutions aligned with business-unit priorities to satisfy customer needs. Responsible for the full sales cycle, from winning new customers to growing share of wallet in targeted existing customers for Rackspace. Utilizes industry knowledge to differentiate Rackspace and to acquire new customers and drive new footprint. Builds deep relationships with strategic customers and prospects, presenting viable IT and business solutions. Utilizes an entrepreneurial mindset to develop a hunting list of target customers aligned with Rackspace's multicloud solutions. Engages with C-suite executives, leveraging executive presence and emotional intelligence to understand customer challenges and competitor behavior to translate technology into impactful business solutions. Plans and executes pursuit and win strategies for specified opportunities, leads account reviews, and provides support to ensure successful development and implementation of strategic account plans, all while embodying Rackspace's core values in the sales arena. Higher-levels responsible for large deal business development and retention of strategic new customer acquisitions and high-value existing customers to generate sustainable revenues in line with business objectives. Responsible for adhering to company security policies and procedures and any other relevant policies and standards as directed.
Career Level Summary
• Career-developing seller.
• Possesses a working understanding of company products/services and utilizes sales techniques effectively.
• Completes moderately complex sales with minimal supervision.
• Requires working knowledge and experience in own job discipline and broadens capabilities.
• Continues to build knowledge of the company, processes and customers.
• Performs a range of assignments related to job discipline.
• Uses prescribed guidelines or processes in analyzing situations.
• Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction
Critical Competencies
• Customer Knowledge: Capitalizes on deep understanding of current customer’s organization structure, business processes, strategic objectives and challenges in order to anticipate and meet customer needs.
• Relationship Management: Cultivates relationships with broad groups inside the organization (e.g., leadership team, business partners) and externally with key constituents, partners and allies (e.g., government, industry groups); provides recommendations for managing challenging relationships.
• Negotiatio and Influence: Persuades others by supporting ideas with logical arguments/data, recognizing what information to share and when to share it; builds support to resolve issues and achieve the most favorable outcome for the company.
• Technical Knowledge of Products: Demonstrates knowledge of market segments as well as market data trends and makes recommendations accordingly.
• Systems Thinking: Leads collaboration with key stakeholders and contributes subject matter expertise to develop unique solutions to complex issues.
Key Responsibilities
• Other Incidental tasks related to the job, as necessary.
• Guides customer satisfaction, account retention and growth by collaborating with customers and internal teams.
• Develops strong relationships with executives and influencers to expand and implement effective, enterprise-wide strategies.
• Owns forecasting and account planning on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis.
• Leads a defined sales process for all Rackspace solutions.
• Cultivates new business opportunities for new and/or existing accounts.
• Meets with qualified leads to better understand customer needs and provide proposals.
• Leads efforts to create proposal for solution to prove value add.
• Leads the negotiation, closure, and documentation of customer renewals for customers.
• Works with Customer Success Manager to invest in higher service levels for a customer with low MRR but high wallet and to identify and pursue opportunities for upgrades, cross-selling, and upselling.
• Creates advocates out of customers by delivering fanatical customer experience and leverages customer advocates to drive additional sales.
• Utilizes and updates CRM tools to track all pertinent account information and sales progress as well as forecast and prioritize to achieve quarterly goals.
Skills
• Able to effectively communicate over the phone, through email, and face-to-face.
• Able to overcome a moderate level of resistance that will be encountered early in the sales process.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.
• Able to communicate the same message in a different way to both technical and businessoriented people.
• Superior ability to adapt messages to stakeholders at all levels of the company, from CTO level to front-line technical support.
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills. Goal oriented with superior work ethic.
• Able to influence others in decision-making.
• Superior negotiation skills and the ability to negotiate with many personality types.
• Effective time management skills and the ability to work numerous projects at once.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a high level of patience and the ability to nurture.
• Able to develop and manage internal and external business relationships of various temperaments, talents and convictions.
"Remote postings are limited to candidates residing within the country specified in the posting location"
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.
Rackspace
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