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If a customer is looking for a better way to manage their warehouse inventory, equip their workforce, or secure their data, we make it happen. All it takes is finding the right combination of tech hardware, software, cloud solutions, and support services. That’s what we do. We’re the IT Department’s IT Department.\nWho We Are\nOur team is made stronger by a multitude of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. It’s what makes Connection unique-what drives us to innovate and create technology solutions that stand apart from the crowd. We’d love for you to be a part of that fabric, to share your ideas and experiences with a team that thrives on fresh thinking, creativity, and helping others.\nWhy You Should Join Us\nYou’ll find supportive teammates and a rewarding career at Connection-plus great benefits. We take pride in supporting employees with a total rewards package that provides financial, emotional, and physical resources for you and your family. Our compensation, 401k plans, medical insurance, and other benefits are progressive and competitive. We value the importance of our employees’ emotional wellbeing. To support employees, we provide free therapy visits, mental health coaching and tools, and meditation resources. You’ll also enjoy a generous paid time off package that includes not only vacation and sick time, but also Wellness and Volunteer Time Off days.\nApplicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.\nResponsibilities\n Reports to: Manager, Inside Account Mgmt or Director, Inside Account ManagementThe Inside Account Manager (IAM) is a remote inside sales position responsible for providing proactive direct sales support for one or more Enterprise Account Executives (EAEs). The primary areas of responsibility are to function as a lead to an inside sales account team; to manage client support provided; to generate client demand, to identify opportunities for new solutions and lines of business, to maximize margins, promote self-service and to deliver a result that allows for the attainment of each team(s) revenue and gross profit quotas. Occasional in person customer facing support is required. An IAM is expected to be able to communicate Connection Enterprise’s complete value proposition, to demonstrate the MarkITplace platform and to relate its value to clients. The IAM has extensive interaction with Manufacturers, Distribution Partners, EAEs, Sales Support teams and the CES Operational Support teams.\nAn IAM manages the daily flow of a client’s business and maintains structured time management practices that allow for a proactive approach to supporting our client’s needs. Due to the fast pace of the business, it is extremely important that the IAM prioritizes the client’s needs and manages the support efforts to ensure a timely and accurate response is being given by the team. Scheduled times for proactive sales cycles to identify net new solutions must occur daily, while ensuring the ongoing management of the support team is working efficiently to respond to any open requests.\nWhere applicable, this position assures departmental processes are performed in compliance with applicable Sarbanes-Oxley controls.\nThis is a base plus commission role, earnings may vary. Posted salary information is annualized and indicative of first year of employment.MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH HEALTHCARE ACCOUNTS.\nMin\nUSD $45,000.00/Yr.Max\nUSD $95,000.00/Yr.Qualifications\nPrimary Job Duties\nFunctions as the lead of an inside sales team, mentoring, monitoring, quarterbacking and delegating support tasks to a client operations team.\nManages and grows velocity product lines within existing client base by obtaining assigned monthly/quarterly revenue and GP goals\nDevelops and maintains current velocity product line knowledge from top leading technology market leaders. Velocity product lines are defined as desktops, laptops, mobile devices, low end servers, peripherals, printers/scanners, supplies, monitors/displays, accessories, and All Other Software (AOS).Velocity Proposal Management - delegation and inspection of velocity proposals under $25,000. Proper follow up on associated client quotes.\n\nOwns proposals over $25,000 to ensure pricing accuracy, project management, OEM deal registrations, and logging Salesforce activity associated with each opportunity.\nEstablishes, builds and maintains strategic relationships with clients, OEM sales teams and distribution partners.\nPrepares, analyzes and presents client activity reports\nSalesforce activity management to ensure all qualifying projects are recorded and updated proactively. Client quotes over $100k should have the Quote to Opportunity feature used in Salesforce the same day the quote has been entered with proper next steps and follow-up actions logged.Provides complex solution proposals requiring technical configuration support\nFurnishes customer quote & follows up on opportunity\nMaintaining a 4 hour customer response to requests\nProactive management of software renewal quotes to be identified, strategized with the EAE, and sent to the client a minimum 30 days prior to renewal.\nWorks with Inside Sales Support to ensure all orders are being processed accurately & timely to meet the customer’s shipment service level expectations\nEscalates orders and provides over flow assistance for order entry & pricing verification review\nProvides open order management process support for complex orders only\nMaximum 20% of time spent in order and quote entry.\n\nProvides RMA escalation assistance to Inside Sales Support team\nResponsible for the daily team communication with our customers, manufacturer partners & suppliers\nWorks with EAE to define and maintain a pricing strategy that leverages the areas below to ensure a competitive discount is extended to our customers while maximizing margins.Smart Sourcing Initiatives\nContractual Limitations\nUtilize Partner Programs to manage customer bids and deal registration submissions\nRegular buying/prospect account reviews to ensure GP maximization and account strategy attainment\n\nWorks with Inside Sales Support Team to create, maintain and manage customer standards and catalogues.\nProvides self-service customer trainings and handles MarkITplace platform demonstrations at a moment’s notice via Webex (sourcing model, quote/order management, Special Price Monitoring, product search, reporting, license/renewal management, process improvement, & RMA capabilities)\nResponsible for proactively identifying net new opportunities by leveraging the following areasMonthly Spend Analysis & Standards Management Review\nMandatory monthly customer whitespace analysis followed by a specific strategy to gain that line of business. Standing monthly review of current business to target new cross sell / up sell activity\nProactive weekly calls to key OEM inside/outside sales team relationships. Target should be 5 OEM contacts reached per week and 25 OEM reps per account total.\nProactive weekly calls with key internal BDMs, SBDMs, SMEs, TSEs, and other manufacturer specific resources.\n\nAccountable for overall daily team management, customer satisfaction and the relationship management with our customers and partners.\nResponsible for proactive Salesforce entries per day per EAE supported with activities focused on new lines of business, strategic project calls, strategic OEM calls, and overall prospecting calls into the account.\nResponsible for daily utilization of Cloud:59 with minimum logins monthly and 2 video posts per quarter.\nParticipates in and meets minimum Sales Management expectations for quarterly sales promotions and campaigns\nPerforms other duties as assigned.\nAttendance\nEmployees are required to be present at the approved work location in order to perform the functions of this position.\nTravel Requirements\nOccasional travel may be required, less than six trips per year.\nTravel-Specific Expectations\nTravel expected\nJob Qualifications\nDegree requirements: Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent combination of education and work experience\nMajor if applicable:\nCertifications, Licenses or Registrations required, if any:\nMinimum years of work experience to qualify for role: 5\nTotal years of work experience to be fully proficient: 7\nSkills, Knowledge and Abilities The minimum competencies required to be successful in the position are listed below.\nRequired competencies:\nStrong working knowledge of Salesforce, Excel, Word, Outlook & PowerPoint\nGeneral degree of technical expertise with a working understanding of data center (Servers, Networking and Storage) infrastructure solutions.\nKnowledgeable on major velocity OEM product lines with understanding of current technologies.\nStrong working knowledge of Salesforce, Excel, Word, Outlook & PowerPoint.\nPrevious reseller experience in a similar role that provided high value, high 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