Account Director

Description

Position Title : Account Director

Location : San Francisco CA

The Role

As an Account Director role you will be responsible for sourcing opportunities through your direct efforts Channel leads and existing customer base. With a focus on solution selling youll work with your customers and colleagues to drive customer initiatives across our global platform.

What you will do

Sell directly to C-Level leaders while developing relationships with complex Network Solutions customers.

Identify big data trends (Carrier ecosystem knowledge social media / Content Cloud Adoption Internet of Things). Share a strong understanding of the data / IP and mobile communications industry relationships.

Apply knowledge of Hybrid Private and Public Cloud architectures to sales solutions including the implementation and management of these solutions.

Evident proficiency in articulating key drivers and use cases for moving workloads from Public to Private Cloud.

Negotiate wholesale contracts and ability to close complex contracts amendments and customer renewals.

Manage multiple pipelines and develop accurate forecasting both monthly and quarterly.

Set sales strategy for large accounts and managing required outputs from ADPs to drive sales.

Assess client business issues requirements and budget constraints and prescribe solutions.

Articulate document and present concepts ideas figures action plans etc.

Analyze complex problems and present straightforward solutions.

What you will need

10 years of direct sales experience preferred.

Carrier / wholesale managed networking cloud solutions or IT services field

Excellent skills analytical tools (Excel or others) and PowerPoint

Bachelors Degree required.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL the companys global data center platform provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty please visit or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A bit about our team

Sales

Our Sales team is at the sharp end of our business securing new customers from network and cloud service providers through to all kinds of major global and regional enterprises and local businesses. We help identify the objectives of our customers and enable them to succeed by combining our strategic knowledge of the industry technical knowledge of our global data center platform PlatformDIGITAL with our ability to develop strong partnerships.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and youll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team youll get to work with people from different business areas challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. Well also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Apply today take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isnt just a priority here at Digital; its critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives protecting assets and securing data arent just ideals - theyre essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package excellent benefits and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the companys overall goals and values. der

Required Experience :

Director

Key Skills

Abinitio,Customer Service,Business Solutions,Cost Estimation,Drafting,Activex

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1