Account Manager - Power

The job

This role is part of a regional sales team where you will define and plan your strategic and tactical approaches to achieving your objectives. You will work closely with local marketing, technical sales and the delivery organisation to build and close business within the region.

This role requires the ability to discover new opportunities for AVEVA’s solutions in the Energy Market, working with the customer to explore and build a business case for investment in AVEVA’s solutions.

It is an expectation that travel to clients, partners, prospects, AVEVA offices etc. (including overseas on occasion) will be a normal requirement of successfully executing this role.

Key responsibilities

• Meet or exceed quarterly revenue targets supporting the regional business.
• Define and execute your Account Manager Business Plan which outlines your strategic and tactical approaches for achieving your targets
• Plan and organise all related sales activities starting from prospecting through to closing business in line with the AVEVA Sales Process.
• Comply with AVEVA’s Processes and Policies and other written and verbal communication from the management.
• Analyse your ongoing performance against your plan to develop monthly reporting including long term account strategies with both current and proposed activities, customer visits, revenue status, and revenue forecast.
• Maintain and develop the customer pipeline in accordance with the pipeline recognition rules, and maintain activity within AVEVA’s Sales Force solution.
• Ensure sales documentation to support revenue booking are duly signed.
• Retain existing accounts and expanding solutions utilisation, by developing long term relationships with Executives and key decision makers.
• Support management with all market related information and assist with marketing activity where appropriate.

Essential requirements

• You will possess experience (at least 7-10 years) in a sales, account management and/or business development role selling software solutions serving Plant Owner Operators, EPC’s and /or Design consultants.
• You must be passionate about the customer’s business and must be able to investigate and uncover their most important problems to solve, matching AVEVA’s solutions to them where appropriate.
• You will possess experience (at least 7 years) with IT solutions and the business processes associated with the industries served by AVEVA and likely to have worked for an IT solutions provider, EPC, Plant Owner Operator, or technology consultancy.
• You will be a self-starter, able to work to develop new and existing client engagements though the entire sales cycle.
• You will be skilled and experienced operating at a range of levels from end user to senior decision makers within AVEVA’s target customer base, aligning their business problems with our technology solutions.
• You will have sound commercial and analytical skills to help identify market trends and opportunities for your nominated territory, refining business and account plans to exploit such opportunities. You will be experienced in assessing commercial and legal risk and taking steps in negotiations to minimise / mitigate same from our business undertakings.
• You will have a positive and determined approach to researching and analysing new business opportunities and then marshalling the resources to pursue and close the business.
• You will have strong communication skills in all forms – written, oral, email, presentation, and have strong English language skills.
• You will be personable, be a strong team player and be able to conduct challenging business and commercial conversations with customers in a positive manner.

Desired skills

• Customer Focused: Develops in-depth understanding of customer needs in order to provide what they need rather than what is convenient. Develops and implements strategies and processes which improve customer relationships. Tries to get others to see things from the customer perspective. Acts as an advocate - takes the side of the customer in challenging existing standards of customer focus.
• Consistently shares newsworthy insights about the market, educating them on new issues and outcomes, and helping them avoid potential landmines.
• Embraces tension in commercial conversations.
• Always ties insights back to AVEVA’s unique strengths in the market.
• Relationship Management: Thinks and acts from the other person’s value and belief set. Prepared to bring sensitive issues into the open with objectivity and without bias or prejudice. Recognises different value sets and what motivates them, even in highly political situations. Uses a range of response tactics and deals with a variety of complex behaviours, values and motives.
• Engages in dialogue with customers, constructively creating tension to help the customer learn something new.
• Surprises the customer with insight.
• Delivers insight convincingly and with authority.
• Influencing Skills: Emphasises positive messages and benefits which win appeal to audience. Chooses and uses most appr