Sr. Account Executive, Higher Education Sales

About the role

Join us in building and celebrating the value of Amazon Business to buyers and sellers of all sizes and industries. Unlock your career potential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver accurate weekly reporting on pipeline and customer spend adoption, including account status updates and insights learned during deployment
• Provide strategic account engagement that helps customers implement solutions that solve industry-specific procurement challenges
• Drive and accelerate spend adoption by advising customers on best practices for using Amazon Business solutions
• Focus on automating service needs for customers, while working with Product and Technical teams to develop solutions that will increase solution adoption
• Relay market needs and requirements back to internal Amazon teams, including Product, Technical, and Category Management teams

Requirements

• 5+ years of B2B or enterprise sales with a focus on hunting new business experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience identifying, developing, negotiating, and closing opportunities across a wide spectrum of customer engagement levels
• Demonstrated track record of positioning and selling solutions to new and existing customers and market segments

Qualifications

• Relevant Higher Education consultative sales experience and a proven track record of meeting and exceeding program goals and revenue targets

Skills

• Expert use of MS Office Suite, CRMs (e.g. Salesforce.com) and other systems
• Expertise in identifying, prioritizing, developing, and growing a book of strategic customer accounts

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Schedule

Virtual Location - California - 113,100.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

Virtual Location - Georgia - 113,100.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

Virtual Location - Illinois - 113,100.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

Virtual Location - Massachusetts - 113,100.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually