Account Executive - New York

About the role

Sell and service eyewear products by managing existing accounts and developing new prospects across various industries. Exercise a broad knowledge of the organization's services, products, and marketing techniques to achieve market share growth objectives and operational goals.

Responsibilities

• Develop creative sales strategies to contact prospects and create opportunities to sell products and increase revenue.
• Cultivate and develop strong business relationships with customers and prospective customers.
• Represent eyewear line of business to customer base in all sales-oriented activities.
• Work independently, while leveraging appropriate partners, team, and colleagues to exceed quota targets while achieving balanced product line results.
• Apply innovative ideas, approaches, and all product solutions to customer's business problems by understanding the customers' business and their business requirements.
• Maintain current working knowledge of existing and new products and services, and other general information to ensure accurate information is provided.
• Identify and communicate future customer requirements and feedback to the appropriate VSP divisions.
• Act as liaison between various VSP departments and customers to ensure service levels and expectations are met.
• Collaborate with marketing and product development to address customers' needs and analyze market data.
• Utilize sales automation system to make inquiries, maintain records, and prepare reports.

Requirements

Typically Has The Following Skills Or Abilities:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Three plus years of sales experience, with demonstrated account management, servicing, negotiation, and established customer relationships.
• Results-driven achiever with exemplary planning and organizational skills, along with a high degree of detail orientation.
• Demonstrated track record meeting sales/revenue goals with small to medium account responsibility.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated track record in developing business-to-business relationships.
• Highly adaptable, positive, resilient, patient risk-taker who is open to new ideas.
• Resourceful team player who excels at building trusting relationships with customers and colleagues.
• Innovative problem-solver who can generate workable solutions and resolve problems.
• Flexible team player who thrives in environments requiring ability to effectively prioritize and juggle multiple concurrent sales opportunities.
• Exceptional listener and communicator who effectively conveys information verbally and in writing.
• Highly motivated self-starter who takes initiative with minimal supervision.

Qualifications

Must travel more than 50% of the time.

Skills

Required:

• Ability to achieve and maintain any applicable agent licensing requirements for any state(s) within assigned sales territory.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Salary Ranges: $58,656.00 - $84,025.50

Schedule

Not specified.