Account Manager - Africa at Ericsson

We are now looking for an Account Manager to secure short and long-term profitable business for Ericsson through proactive business development based on a fundamental understanding of the customers’ business, operations, and objectives. Actively manage and mobilize internal resources to deliver efficient and effective end-to-end solutions allowing flawless transition from sales to operations. Develop both internal and external relation/s in order to actively contribute to making customers and Ericsson successful. This job role could be focused on selling a specific part of the portfolio, a specific part of the customer’s business/technology area, and/or geography.

To be successful in the role you must have

• Education: Bachelor of Business Administration, Master of Science, or similar
• 5 + years Proven experience in relationship sales and from the ICT industry
• Domain experience: Cloud, BSS, OSS
• Consultative selling skills and commercial understanding
• You will need to have customer and market insight as well as negotiation skills
• Leadership experience
• Sales and customer relation ship experience

Responsibilities

• Your responsibility will be to improve customer relationships and dedication.
• You are encouraged to build sales opportunities that will generate profitability sales.
• The role also includes optimization of the account team’s performance and enable flawless transition to operations