FedEx is a leading logistics and delivery services company, and they are seeking a Regional Account Manager for their Commercial Print Sales team. This role is responsible for managing corporate accounts, developing long-term customer relationships, and driving sales growth through strategic planning and execution.
Responsibilities:
- Serves as a trusted advisor to the customer using a proactive, strategic approach, while developing tactical plans to drive the strategy and revenue delivery
- Achieves all sales activity standards, and revenue and performance objectives related to retention and growth of both existing and new customer prospects
- Upon identifying customer business objectives, identifies and demonstrates how FXO products and services meet customer needs
- Develop strategies to grow, enhance and maintain long-term profitable customer relationships
- Actively partner with both Sales and Operations leadership
- Engage resources required, both corporate and field, to support sales implementation and activation efforts
- Function as liaison between customer and FXO corporate teams, plus vendor partners as needed
- Manage the entirety of assigned customers and travel when necessary to locations (with possible national travel) within the account, as required to include scheduling and conducting regular in-person visits to new and existing customers
- Provide pricing information and pricing levels to named account base, per established pricing guidelines
- Interact with Sales leadership and support resources to develop and execute sales strategies for existing customers and new business development
- Participate in the identification and qualification of new customer prospects, and provide relevant information to be considered for the customer base
- Initiate marketing activities to activate FXO services to defined customer segments
- Ensure that customers are trained to utilize the FXO ordering and purchasing guidelines for products
- Drive target products and promotions, as directed
- Work with other sales resources in a team selling capacity to include involvement with other FedEx operating companies and secondary coverage to national customers, as assigned
- Refer project management, including outsourcing coordination, to appropriate Operations resources
- Direct, plan and assist in customer recovery as appropriate
- Build and maintain a robust and accurate pipeline of business at established standards inside of the FXO customer relationship management (CRM) tool
- Maintain accurate customer relationship management (CRM) system data, including daily activities and account updates
- Work and utilize the extensive FedEx sponsorship programs to host key clients and strengthen customer relationships
- Maximize the FedEx value delivered to each and every customer by working cross functionally within FXO, Services and the other FedEx Operating companies
- All other duties as needed or required
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
- 5+ years of business-to-business solutions selling experience required with a focus on prospecting new customers and developing existing business relationships
- Demonstrated business math and intermediate computer skills with MS Office
- High level of experience in sales planning, sales proposals, and selling the value propositions appropriate to corporate level customers and others in the organization
- Demonstrated understanding of sales financial targets/quotas with proven successful results
- Strong conceptual selling, presentation, closing and organizational skills
- Highly self-motivated, with a strong appetite for learning
- Articulate; uses clear, convincing and tailored communication
- Proven selling skills and knowledge of value propositions
- Recognized flexible disposition; open to coaching and feedback
- Presents a personal professional image
- Ability to travel as required in order to meet with customers, vendors, other team members, and/or other business necessities
- Ability, on a consistent basis, to maintain attention and concentration for extended periods of time
- Ability, on a consistent basis, to read and interpret documents and instructions from customers, vendors, and other team members
- Ability, on a consistent basis, to communicate effectively with customers, vendors, and other team members
- Ability, on a consistent basis, to perform work activities requiring cooperation and instruction
- Ability, on a consistent basis, to function in a fast-paced environment, under substantial pressure
- Ability, on a consistent basis, to work within the appropriate level of independence
- Ability, on a consistent basis, to report regularly to work and maintain established business hours in order to support the FedEx Office business; regular attendance and/or reporting could include regular attendance at a physical location and/or maintaining established business hours depending on the scope and nature of the position
- Experience within the document solutions or product offerings industry, preferred but not required
- Experience utilizing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software programs, preferred