20 April, 2018

Account Manager Vacancy At FPG Technologies & Solutions Limited

FPG Technologies & Solutions Limited started with the vision of Rex Mafiana, A seasoned IT professional with over 21 years’ experience in the African IT segment across all industries and economic sectors. Rex has spent a greater part of his life managing business complexity and designing solutions to help organizations resolve IT business challenges.

Job Title - Account Manager – TELCOS (Telecommunications Sector)

Location:  Lagos.


Job Summary:

As an Account Manager in FPG’s Sales function, you are responsible for selling FPG’s Solutions and Services to new and existing FPG customers, as well as maintaining positive on-going relationships to meet evolving customer needs. Your overall focus areas will be in prospecting, developing business, responding to RFP’s, developing proposals & presentations to customers, and selling Solutions and Services. Cross functional  teams from FPG’s Marketing, Solutions/Technical teams and Operations functions provide support and tools for you to leverage to attain and exceed sales performance goals. You will utilize your excellent relationship building, negotiating, and technical skills to be successful in this role.

Essential Function:
The essential responsibilities of the Sales Account Manager is to work directly with customers to capture sales opportunities and to work effectively across functions with other FPG employees towards successful closure of deals. Specific areas of responsibility that you will be responsible for include:

Specific Functions:
Specific areas of responsibility that you will be responsible for include but are not limited to the following:
 Sell FPG solutions in all accounts assigned.
 Achieve assigned quarterly/annual sales revenue target.
 Acquire new accounts and discover new opportunities in both old and new accounts.
 Develop and recommend sales and marketing strategies to keep FPG competitive and innovative.
 Develop an account management plan to sell to customer based on their business need.
 Build and strengthen your business relationship with customers within existing accounts and ensure that their needs are being met.
 Provide status information to your Manager including forecast/pipeline information.
 Seeking out major clients and forming working relationships with the buyers in the industry.
 Forecasting future sales and forming sales plans to adapt to constant shifts in the marketplace.
 Foreseeing and avoiding stagnation in the marketplace.
 Understand our markets, the customer journey and the competitive landscape.
 Articulate the messaging of our brand and manage communications with our customers.
 Initiate and build relationships with high net-worth customers for the purpose of delivering on our organizational goals.
 Build relationships with influencers as partners and ambassadors for the promotion of our products.
 Performs sales activities on major accounts and negotiate sales price and discounts in consultation with the MD.
 Respond to RFP’s/RFQ’s.
 Other related functions as may be requested by the Employer or your Supervisor.

Reporting:
Reports directly to the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer

Requirements and Qualifications:

Education and Training:
 A minimum of a B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc. in Electronics/ Electrical/ Mechanical/
Computer Engineering, Information Technology or any related field.
 A masters degree will be added advantage.
 Possession of professional certifications is also an added advantage.

Work Experience:
 A minimum of 5 years related experience in the IT sector.
 3 years proven record of accomplishment selling Enterprise Security, Cloud,
Infrastructure & Mobility Solutions in the Telecommunication sector.

Other Requirements:
 Strong relationship management and communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across a number of departments and services as well as external stakeholders.
 Adaptability to a proactive and flexible approach to work and be comfortable with a dynamic environment with constantly changing priorities.
 Strong problem-solving and analytical skills to interpret sales performance and market trend information towards achieving FPG’s sales goals.
 Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
 Tenacity, Loyalty, Commitment, Passion, Drive.
 Experience developing creative and thought-provoking high-level marketing and brand strategies in line with the strategic vision of FPG.
 Possess customer profiling skills and complex solutions selling skills.
 Ability to respond to RFP’s/RFQ’s professionally.
 Advanced knowledge of best practices in Enterprise Software, Enterprise
Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, Mobility Solutions as well as Network & Communication Sales.
 Excellent project management, presentation, negotiation, report and proposal writing skills.

What are the details?
  •  Exciting independent role: the sky is the limit, high levels of autonomy, but with
  • established support.
  •  Full-time position, 09:00-17:00, Monday-Friday, based in Lekki, Lagos.
  • Competitive remuneration + commission.



 How to Apply:

Applications (cover letter and resume) should be submitted by e-mail or in person to:

FPG Technologies & Solutions Limited
28A, Providence Street (VFS Road)
Lekki Phase 1
Lagos.
Tel: 08172004171