Corporate Account Mgr

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**Location**:
Milan**
Requisition**:
R30679 Corporate Account Mgr - Remote (Open)**
Job Posting Title**:
Corporate Account Mgr - Remote
**What we're looking for**:
We are looking for a strong, motivated, senior Corporate Account Manager who will provides day to day leadership and acting as a team leader, build up strategic contacts at CIO, managing director and executive level, is it you?

**Position Overview**

The Corporate Account Manager establishes relationships and sells Citrix solutions direct to a portfolio of key accounts in Italy. You will use your experience selling complex software solutions to large enterprise accounts to effectively build and lead teams of resources to achieve established account strategies within our most important and high-profile accounts in Italy.

**Responsibilities**:

- Establish relationships and engage at CxO levels to identify and sell Citrix solutions direct to the complex, or tactically important named accounts, you will aim to exceed your sales targets and demonstrate continuous progress towards achieving account strategies.
- Interact strongly with customer at the Senior Management level with support on forming a relationship with C level contacts within these accounts. Understand and document customer’s business and IT strategies, priorities and goals.
- Identify, develop, execute, and maintain account strategies to drive adoption of Citrix products and services revenue within assigned enterprise accounts and their subsidiaries and affiliates.
- Draw up and implement analysis of key accounts, using EMEA methodology
- Establish and lead teams of internal and external resources to identify, pursue, and close specific opportunities consistent with account strategies.
- Establish and maintain close relationships with systems engineers, consultants, and sales specialists to access and leverage from appropriate internal resources.
- Take on responsibility for overall project management - from acquisition of new IT projects to coordination of project participants.
- Establish and maintain relationships with resellers, system integrators, and any other external partner to develop and achieve account strategies and opportunity plans.
- Understand and navigate account procurement practices to successfully negotiate profitable licensing contracts.
- Drive prompt resolution of customer issues and ensures high levels of customer satisfaction with Citrix products and services.
- Serve as the primary client contact for non-technical or support issues requiring escalation.
- Provide regular and efficient updates on assigned accounts to sales management.**Qualifications and key skills**:

- Great sales experience selling software to large enterprise accounts.
- Relevant Experience in leading Key Accounts at CxO Levels.
- Demonstrated track record of establishing strategic executive level relationships to position and sell software and services to listed companies.
- Proven ability to develop and maintain executive level relationships with both business and IT customers.
- Proven ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal marketing, technology, implementation, and product development teams.
- Strong consultative selling ability - critical questioning, listening, analytical, negotiation, communication, and presentation.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and articulate compelling qualitative and quantitative business cases for IT solutions.
- Proven ability to manage long, complex sales cycles from beginning to end. Accounts are key, highly strategic and have complex requirements.
- Proven ability to close large complex deals with enterprise accounts.
- Demonstrated knowledge of strategic/large account sales techniques and processes including the ability to understand customer needs, overcome objections, develop business cases, and negotiate and close deals.
- High energy, motivated self-starter attitude
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to effectively present to both technical and executive audiences in the local language and in English.
- Solid understanding of Citrix competitive domain and technologies.

**What Citrix will bring you**:

- Large existing clients’ portfolio: 400,000 clients including 99% of the Fortune 100 and 98% of the Fortune 500
- Strong Citrix community/image
- Cloud transformation - New Innovative Platform - Intelligent Workspace - Security
- A 3 billion software vendor with a “family atmosphere” where you will be able to grow and create
- Achievable targets, good atmosphere, team spirit, work flexibility and trusting & experi