Field Account Executive – Mid Market
Description
- Drive aggressive outbound prospecting through cold calling, email, social selling, and field activity to generate net-new Mid Market opportunities
- Build, manage, and execute a territory plan aligned to revenue targets and strategic growth initiatives
- Practice strategic relationship development and management for each client and prospect to obtain a deep understanding of the client’s business.
- Become a proactive and trusted client partner with aim to establish Zones as an extension of the client’s IT department.
- Proactively collaborate with a variety of IT decision makers to improve their technology infrastructure and solve business problems.
- Own the full sales cycle from prospecting and discovery through solutioning, negotiation, and close
- Lead sales motions centered on data center and advanced technology solutions, including compute, storage, networking, virtualization, backup, security, and hybrid cloud
- Initiate conversations, identify opportunities and execute sales for core products, cloud, managed solutions and professional services.
- Upsell, cross sell, and attach products and services to maximize margins using a consultative approach.
- Research, prepare and proactively execute calls into prospects and client accounts using trained best practices.
- Partner closely with internal presales, solution architects, and technology partners to design and deliver customer solutions
- Orchestrate internal Zones resources to sell solutions and provide Five-Star Service that exceeds client expectations.
- Work in a ‘team sales’ environment and proactively partner with field sales, marketing, channel partner resources and other Zones departments to maximize efforts and sales opportunities.
- 3–7+ years of field-based B2B technology sales experience, preferably within the Mid Market segment
- Demonstrated success in heavy prospecting, outbound sales, and new logo acquisition
- Strong experience selling data center, infrastructure, or advanced technology solutions
- Proven ability to manage complex, consultative sales cycles
- Hunter mentality with strong cold calling, objection handling, and closing skills
- Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts in business-focused language
- Disciplined approach to territory, pipeline, and forecast management
- High energy, resilience, and comfort with rejection
- Coachable, curious, and motivated to continuously learn new technologies
- Self-starter with an “own your business” mindset
- Strong collaboration skills in fast-paced, team-oriented environments
- Prospector/Closer: Demonstrated success calling prospects and following warm leads with desire to impact business landscape through closing on our suite of technology solutions.
- Sales Instinct & Active Listener: Effective communicator who can identify business problems that can be solved with a connection to Zones’ products and solutions.
- Ability to Rally: Retain high energy and positive attitude and “bounce back” mentality in the always evolving technology sales industry.
- Collaborative: Team oriented, transparent, authentic, seeks win-win solutions with use of the vast Zones team of resources.
- Organization: Motivated, confident, proactive self-starter with “own my business” attitude and strong ability to set and maintain a productive cadence throughout each day in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
- Curious Learner: Ability to absorb technology concepts and translate them to Zones’ solutions to impact clients’ expected business outcomes.
While we’re committed to providing top-tier solutions, we’re just as committed to supporting our own team. Our team members enjoy a variety of comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, voluntary accident, hospitalization and critical illness insurance options, a 401(k) plan with matching provision, and many more. Generally, Zones currently offers paid time off and personal sick leave in compliance to individual state requirements.
