Associate Client Executive Acquisition

* Current residency in Chicago and storage or data center selling experience required 

The Team
We represent Hitachi Vantara to clients across various industries, establishing business relationships to understand customer challenges so that we can deliver profitable business for Hitachi products, services and solutions. We collaborate as a team and cross-functionally to ensure the success of our customers; success that is celebrated and shared. Our solutions bring value to every line of business, and we need people like you to build those deep relationships and to passionately articulate our value proposition.

The Role
• New business acquisition to drive revenue growth
• You will partner and support alongside your Client Executive to identify, target, and acquire new accounts while also proactively prospect and engage potential clients through various channels, including cold calling, networking, and campaigns
• Document progress through use of CRM and build pipeline with partners through identified and unsolicited bids
• Need to ensure that the outcomes for success is closing new business
• Customer Relationship Management
• Build and nurture strong, long-lasting relationships with key decision-makers within target accounts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Sales and Market Analysis:
• Track, analyze, and report on key performance indicators related to new account acquisition, revenue growth, and customer satisfaction.
• Utilize data-driven insights to continuously improve sales strategies and tactics.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, market dynamics, and competitor activities to identify new business opportunities and maintain a competitive edge
• Ongoing self-education to gain knowledge of the Hitachi Vantara Products and offerings

What you’ll bring to the team(qualifications)
•Experience running sales campaigns (cold calls, emails prospecting, marketing campaigns)  

•Sales experience in infrastructure, data storage, cloud, hybrid cloud or data management required
• A minimum of 3 years Inside sales experiences and or 2 years outside sales experience specializing in new business development
• Proven track record of sourcing new leads
• Must demonstrate a consistent track record of achieving annual targets/goals
• Experience supporting sales campaigns, using outcome and solution selling techniques is a must
• Possesses a competitive attitude, strong work ethic and thrives in a fast pace, high growth and matrixed organizational environment
• Collaboration, energy, enablement, a growth mindset, creativity, and trustworthiness
• Must be a proficient user of Salesforce and other MS Office tools
• Having a BA/BS degree or equivalent is desirable

As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected compensation for this position is: $100K base + commissions.  The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Vantara’s sales target incentive and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions.

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Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.