Account Director

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Your Role
Sales responsibility for managing Telkom Group / Strategic Indonesia accounts and channel partners in country. The position is to lead the strategies in growing existing business and to drive new sales with hunting mentality. Customer relationship management, business development and account management background are important elements to be successful in this position. The successful candidate will work closely with pre-sales and post-sales team members to achieve annual sales target and other corporate objectives.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop go-to-market and strategic plan in Indonesia based on understanding of the market dynamics and competitions

• Develop account plans for targeted accounts and drive in-country sales activities towards annual sales target

• Establish strong understanding of customer’s needs, their objectives and their purchasing processes

• Identify, develop and screen sales opportunities for new and existing customer base

• Work closely with regional sales engineering, product line management and sales operations team to achieve sales and revenue objectives

• Responsible for direct and indirect sales activities and provide inputs for channel partner recruitment as needed

• Good habit of sales CRM, and previous experience in Salesforce.com would be an asset

• Possess technical background to learn about Ciena’s solutions, including optical transmission, packet networking and software technologies, and participate in regular trainings

• Have good knowledge of the competitive landscape and the regional business market

• Perform other duties as requested/assigned

Minimum experience

• Minimum 4 year Bachelor Degree (Technical or Business) or higher education

• More than 10 years of sales, account management role.

• Proven sales management, account management and business development experience

• Optical networking technology background is required, and packet Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking background will be an asset

Preferred experience

• Proven experience negotiating and winning new accounts as challenger and winning multi-year projects

• Possess positive and open-minded attitude and good time management skills

• Proven records of growing responsibilities and success in breaking-in new grounds

• Proven team management and leadership skills to work with team members in matrix organization

• Possess high ethical standards, good analytical and communications skills

• Willingness to travel and strong English skill is essential

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