[Remote] Account Manager II - RE Expansion

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lumen Technologies is a company focused on connecting people, data, and applications to drive business growth. They are seeking an Account Manager II to develop Regional Enterprise sales within a designated territory, leveraging strategic client relationships and driving sales initiatives.


Responsibilities

  • Providing accurate and detailed weekly forecast funnel of identified and proposed opportunities in order to meet or exceed sales quota requirements
  • Responsible for developing Regional Enterprise sales in the designated target market(s) by identifying new sales opportunities with prospective enterprise customers headquartered in the region by cold calling, premise visits, networking, lead generation, proposal submission, and customer appointments
  • Effective relationship-building internally through cross-functional collaboration and problem-solving with partners such as Customer Success, Product, Marketing, Solutions/Technology experts, Sales Support, Service Delivery
  • Identifies, bids on, negotiates, and closes new sales opportunities in order to meet and exceed established sales and revenue quotas. Provides comprehensive account plans and strategies to win new business from existing accounts
  • Providing input to sales management about trends and changes taking place within the customer’s organization and making recommendations about future courses of action necessary of the company towards improving its position with the customer
  • Leveraging strategic client relationships and external presence to achieve Lumen’s strategic imperatives
  • Leveraging your external network to identify and recruit high performing talent to the team and builds internal relationships with other leaders to provide win-win career opportunities to Lumen employees
  • Requires at least 50% or more of time conducting sales activities outside of the office

Skills

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and experience
  • 5-7+ years' experience using a solution-based sales methodology for enterprise technology services in a consultative, complex, business-line sales process
  • Demonstrated strong communication, written, and formal presentation skills as well as proficiency in selling to the close
  • Proficiency in MS Office Products: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Strong business acumen and expert knowledge of Lumen's products, services, and solutions
  • Experience with Salesforce.com preferred
  • Experience with Salesforce.com

Benefits

  • Health
  • Life
  • Voluntary Lifestyle benefits

Company Overview

  • Lumen delivers the most secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences It was founded in 1968, and is headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.lumen.com.

    • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Lumen Technologies has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 24 in 2025, 21 in 2024, 27 in 2023, 29 in 2022, 18 in 2021, 49 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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