Sales Trainer III- US

Job Summary: Teaches classes on techniques of selling products and/or services for new and intermediate-level sales reps. Prepares training classes, training materials, and documentation. Maintains and tests sales training software. This position will be 50% of your time working in the virtual clasroom facilitating, interacting and creating workshop style sales and customer training classes. The other 50% of your time will be spent working with key stakeholders, holding rountable discussions for feedback, coaching our sales and success teams, creating video content and marketing materials.Work Location: Remote

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead sales process for all Rackspace solutions.
• Lead projects or project steps within a broader project or may have accountability for ongoing activities or objectives.
• Effectively communicate over the phone, through email, and face-to-face; adapt messages to stakeholders at all levels of the company, from the CTO level to front-line technical support.
• Cultivate relationships with broad groups inside the organization (e.g., leadership team, business partners) and externally with key constituents, partners, and allies (e.g., government, industry groups); provides recommendations for managing challenging relationships.
• Manage a pipeline of long-term or high-priority accounts by anticipating future demand and ensuring sales goals are met.
• Leads the negotiation, closure, and documentation of customer renewals for customers.
• Works with Customer Success Manager to invest in higher service levels for a customer with low MRR but high wallet and to identify and pursue opportunities for upgrades, cross-selling, and upselling.
• Utilizes and updates CRM tools to track all pertinent account information and sales progress as well as forecast and prioritize to achieve quarterly goals.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sales, Marketing, or a related field required.
• 5 years of B2B sales and customer account management experience required.
• Experienc with Canva, Artculate, Rise, Trello, PPT/Microsoft Officem, Zoom preferred.
• Able to communicate the same message in a different way to both technical and business-oriented people.
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills. Goal oriented with superior work ethic.
• Able to develop and manage internal and external business relationships of various temperaments, talents and convictions.
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