Account Manager

Overview:
Quest is an award-winning IT management software provider offering a broad selection of solutions that solve some of the most common and most challenging IT problems.

We are fanatically customer focused and are proud to support the most complex customers who have the highest IT demands in the world. It’s exciting, it’s rewarding, it’s hard work and offers career and personal growth.

We are currently looking for an experienced field **Sales Account Manager** to cover mid-size and large enterprises in the local market in Switzerland (customers with primary presence locally in Switzerland, all verticals), responsible for selling Microsoft Platform Management (MPM) solutions to Named/focused Accounts. This is a remote based role with territory travel to new, or existing, client sites in the enterprise, as required. Experience with SaaS, On-prem, or Hybrid, is highly valued.

The role’s main objective is to driving pipeline and revenue growth and increase market share within a given set of named accounts in the Swiss market.

**Responsibilities**:

- Works with direct customers and channel partners to identify and qualify sales activities, strategies, and business opportunities to generate pipeline
- Execute on strategic sales and marketing strategies, leveraging value-based approach
- Developing and maintaining relationships with customers based on knowledge of Quest’s technology, products, and services
- Acquiring new customer and support of existing customers
- Articulating the value proposition associated with Quest software products and services
- Creating and executing targeted account campaigns

- Working collaboratively with the virtual team with - pre-sales, Inside sales, Sales Development Representative, Services team etc.
- Adjusting to multiple demands and shifting priorities while ensuring customer needs are met; accepts responsibility for results of actions.
- Working with channel and alliance partners to increase opportunity size and expedite closure.
- Preparing and delivering business justifications and executive summaries to key decision-makers

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of successful experience in a quota driven software sales capacity, managing the full sales cycle
- 5+ years performing at or above quota
- Strong prospecting skills
- Strong negotiation skills
- Self-motivated and self-driven individual
- Result oriented
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, fluent in German and English (French a plus).
- Ability to work independently and as a team player
- Proven entrepreneurial mind set
- Problem solving skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Power Point, Excel

**Preferred**:

- Undergraduate degree or Graduate degree

**Company Description**

At Quest, we create and manage the software that makes the benefits of new technology real. Companies turn to us to manage, modernize and secure their business, from on-prem to in-cloud, from the heart of the network to the vulnerable endpoints. From complex challenges like Active Directory management and Office 365 migration, to database and systems management, to redefining security, and hundreds of needs in between, we help you conquer your next challenge now.

We’re not the company that makes big promises. We’re the company that fulfills them.

We’re Quest: Where Next Meets Now.

**Why work with us**
- Life at Quest means collaborating with dedicated professionals with a passion for technology.
- When we see something that could be improved, we get to work inventing the solution.
- Our people demonstrate our winning culture through positive and meaningful relationship.
- We invest in our people and offer a series of programs that enables them to pursue a career that fulfills their potential.
- Our team members’ health and wellness is our priority as well as rewarding them for their hard work.
- Come join us. For more information, visit us on the web at _Quest Careers | Where next meets now. Join Quest.