Named Account Manager SLED - NYC

Date:  Feb 20, 2025
Location: 

New York, US

Requisition ID:  37072

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Job Information

This role is an individual contributor with Avaya’s SLED business unit, consulting, positioning, and selling Cloud/SaaS communication solutions to clients via both direct (retail) contracts and via our well-established channel ecosystem of distributors, reseller partners, and agents.  As a Named Account Manager (NAM), you will be tasked with caring for some of Avaya’s largest accounts directly while also helping to build our presence in the assigned geography.  A successful NAM will be exceptional selling into the executive suite, fluent with UC, CC, and Services terminology and value propositions, and will be excellent at building and managing relationships between various teams and companies.

  • Aggressively pursue new customers and logos to expand the Avaya base.
  • Manage leads and opportunities; positioning Avaya’s UC, CC, CPaaS, Professional Services, and Alliance Vendor solutions with clients
  • Develop strategic business plans for your accounts and territory and then execute that plan with the assistance of engineering, services, and application overlay resources
  • Be comfortable as an individual contributor supported by a team of peers in the same role but working different accounts, with engineering and services overlays providing additional coverage and inputs on opportunities
  • ‘Blitz’ with your clients and into new opportunities as part of the SLED Business Unit’s prospecting activities

 

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Experience

8 - 12 Years of Experience

Competencies

Education

Bachelor degree or equivalent experience
Master Degree is preferred

Preferred Certifications

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