Job Vacancy Details
Business Development Manager
Technology
Middlesex
Permanent
Updated May 10, 2013
Rackspace are seeking a bright, highly motivated, self-starter with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join their Installed Base Sales Team. The position's primary responsibilities would include; developing customer and partner relationships and driving sales opportunities. This entails supporting campaigns in tandem with the marketing department, closing upgrades and transactional opportunities and delivering high levels of customer service in conjunction with the support organisation. Although this is not a field sales role, there will be opportunities to meet clients face to face to discuss their business requirements. As their account manager, you will be responsible for delivering new business solutions to the client and increasing monthly revenue spend. Rackspace provide a dedicated support team for the client to allow you to fully focus on developing your pipeline with new commercial opportunities.
The goal of this position is to develop an account base through relationship management and sales to deliver overall growth of the MRR number for these customers. You will be expected to meet and exceed monthly and quarterly sales quota's, KPI's,whilst delivering accurate forecasting and maintaining full ownership of the sales cycle from start to finish.
Who we're looking for
You will have experience of managing a sales process and be comfortable in negotiating and closing business. You will have a proven sales track record, where you can clearly demonstrate examples of managing the full sales cycle and achieving sales targets. Having experience of managing a sales process, dealing with objection handling and closing business over the phone will be required for this role, along with examples of providing value to the client. You must also be commutable to their Head Office on a daily basis.
About our client
Fanatical Support® has made Rackspace the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry. We deliver hosting services to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world. We got started in 1998 and since have grown to serve more than 130,000 customers, including over 110,000 cloud computing customers. Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies for each customer's specific need and delivers it as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support. Our core products include Managed Hosting, Cloud Hosting and Email & Apps and there are currently over 4,000 Rackers around the world serving our customers. That's why Rackspace is a 'leader' in the 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting , 2011 Best companies to work for, Fortune, 2011 Top 10 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies, Forbes, 2011 2010 Employees' Choice - 50 Best Places to Work, Glassdoor, 2010 Computerworld - 100 Best Places to Work in IT, 2010 The Sunday Times - 100 Best Places to Work For.
What's on offer
If you are a proactive sales leader, committed to helping Rackspace build one of the world's greatest service companies, we have a career and a legacy filled with pride waiting for you.
Contact
For further info, apply or phone on +44 (0) 20 7269 2400.
Job Ref: 13247519
Your application will be sent to Sam Thomason.
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