Target HR is a human resource consulting firm currently seeking applicants for the position of a Sales Account Manager on behalf of our client. Our client is a technical company, located in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Liberia, and Togo. Our client builds metro fiber and Wi-Fi networks to help local providers connect more people to the Internet and each other.

Applicants that meet the requirements must email their cover letters and resumes/CVs to: Targethrinternational@gmail.com as soon as possible.

Deadline for submission is: March 15, 2025

Function Name: Sales Account Manager

Role Name: Sales Account Manager – Location: Liberia

Level: 5

Role Description:

As a Sales and Accounts Manager, you will work closely with all teams in driving sales opportunities in the country. You will be responsible for developing long-term relationships with customers and overseeing sales. You open doors with potential partners, lead exploratory talks with them and then shrewdly analyze and present our options. You will be managing a portfolio of accounts to achieve long-term success and developing positive relationships and handling customers’ needs. Generating new sales using existing and potential customer networks

You have strong relationship-building skills, proven experience in negotiating and closing strategic partnerships, the ability to clarify and summarize complex issues and strong attention to detail. You are able to leverage your relationships to build a strong, actionable perspective on the markets you evolve in, supplemented by market intelligence and competitive analysis. You also possess superior analytical skills regarding contractual, technical and financial issues with partners and projects and the ability to effectively influence and communicate cross-functionally with all levels of management.

Responsibilities

• Identify and grasp new sales and business development opportunities and expand the coverage of CSquared in the targeted market.
• Manage a portfolio of accounts to achieve long-term success
• Generate new business using existing and potential customer networks
• Develop positive relationships with clients
• Act as the point of contact and handle customers’ individual needs
• Set and track sales account targets, aligned with company objectives and monitor sales metrics (e.g. quarterly sales results and annual forecasts)
• Suggest actions to improve sales performance and identify opportunities for growth
• Determine customers’ needs and desires by specifying the research needed to obtain market information.
• Develop insightful recommendations on strategic direction and identify/evaluate specific project opportunities that can help bring and grow access in the region
• Lead analysis efforts by developing work plans, gathering and interpreting relevant data, and developing final recommendations
• Shape and implement other priority projects that could involve product launches, PR or marketing activities, which ultimately grow the business, in sales and revenue
  
• Create project support and analysis, presentations, reporting, industry research
• Assesses market competition by comparing the company’s product to competitors’ products.

Required qualifications & experience

• BA/BS degree preferred with a strong academic record
• Master’s degree with a focus on Strategic Business Planning or similar related business disciplines; or an MBA, will be an added advantage
• At least 6+ years previous work experience including 2+ year of related experience in a technology environment
• Proven work experience as a Sales account manager
• Current on wireless/ wireline telecommunications technology and industry/ public policy,
• In-depth experience operating within cross-functional teams (strategy, sales, finance, marketing, engineering)
• Experience identifying partners, analyzing and structuring complex deal structures with a proven track record of deal negotiation and execution
• Ability to perform research on and assist with execution on several time-sensitive project/deals at once in a fast paced environment with minimal direction.
• Basic technical understanding of fiber construction an asset

Preferred skills:

• Proven ability to handle ambiguity, work collaboratively with internal and partner contacts, influence cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills with technical, contractual and financial issues.
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial work environment with ability to define/clarify scope of project and run with it with minimal direction
• Distinctive analytical skills and superior ability to present to executives and communicate with highly technical management team.
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills with ability to successfully work across multiple levels of the organization
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills