Senior Account Manager - Memory in Basingstoke

The role: As a Senior Account Manager you will be directly responsible for developing, managing and growing relationships with major Value-Added Reseller, E-tailer and distribution customers for the Memory Division.

Main Job Responsibilities:

• Develop relationships with key Value-Added Resellers (VARs), ensuring Integral Memory’s presence on data and electronic systems.
• Work with vertical Key Account Managers and sales teams in the product channel, ensuring our inclusion in listings, product catalogues and data feeds to quote on upgrades, data centres and other projects.
• Understand Integral Memory products’ key propositions and value to convey to customers.
• Work with computer hardware and software solutions providers to understand their needs and provide quotes and solutions for their end customer markets.
• Understand target markets, competition, customers’ company structure business models and key decision makers to determine key growth areas.
• Develop, maintain and grow relationships with our customers to become a key partner and adviser.
• Work with key VARs and their clients to provide solutions.
• Be proactive in developing new business, utilising sales plans and strategies to realise those growth areas, understanding business potential and achieving sales targets for products and value.
• Be proactive and engage with the customer with a mix of visits, phone, email, promotions and mailshots.
• In conjunction with the Marketing team, utilise social media and LinkedIn to develop sales funnels, attract new business, and keep our customers informed.
• Prepare and present sales pitches and presentations.
• Quoting and negotiating prices within company guidelines.
• Be an advisor on product and market trends, feeding information back to the Product Management and Marketing teams.
• Attend sales and product training meetings and visits.
• Use CRM system to best effect.

Skills Required:

• At least 3+ years of sales account management experience gained within the IT distribution or VAR environment.
• A driven sales professional with the desire to develop accounts and win business.
• Effective relationship-building and communication skills whether face to face, through phone, email, and digital channels.
• A competitive team player, who enjoys working in a collaborative environment.
• Results orientated, with a track record of achieving targets.
• Good presentation skills.
• Good social media and LinkedIn marketing knowledge.
• Demonstrable ability to develop an understanding of technology products and their target customers.
• Strong commercial understanding and knowledge of end user requirements.
• Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills.
• Self-motivated with a desire to succeed.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Experience of utilising a CRM (ideally SugarCRM).

The Company: Integral Memory PLC is a long-established and fast-growing technology company founded in the UK over 30 years ago. It has grown into a highly successful and financially independent international business with offices in London and across Europe.

Integral Memory Division: The link between high-end competitive gaming, encrypted military level memory drives and pushing the visual boundaries of creative photography. Our imaginative solutions to the ever-advancing demands of data storage that transcends the cloud has made the Integral logo synonymous with quality, sustainability and reliability.

Integral LED Lighting Division: From lighting up industrial warehouses and retail spaces across Europe, to delivering soft ambient lighting in bathrooms, kitchens and living rooms. From expandable lighting systems for smart buildings, to transforming outdoor spaces with innovative lighting solutions to enhance the human experience – Our innovative and award-winning product range challenges the norm as we continue to bring cutting-edge lighting solutions to the market.

Our award-winning products are sold by resellers in more than 50 countries worldwide and are trusted by large corporations, government departments, and educational institutions.