Hybrid Senior Account Executive

at WM

• Job title: Senior Account Executive
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bristol, United States

About the role

• Senior Account Executive prospecting and closing sales with new customers at WM. Responsible for managing relationships and maintaining billable value in assigned accounts.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for maintaining and growing billable value in their assigned accounts; preventing customer account losses and growing billable value by selling permanent new waste streams, new services, and new products to current and prospective customers.
• Initiate business-to-business sales relationships.
• Responsible for prospecting and closing sales opportunities to achieve budgeted sales goals by developing and implementing sound selling strategies.
• Manage prospects by developing sound prospect development plans and maintaining key information in the prospect database.
• Maintain sales pipeline (both in terms of quantity and quality) to achieve new sales goals.
• Minimize most revenue and accounts by maintaining SSDO relationship health standards and diffusing cancellation requests.
• Increase revenue and profitability by executing sound plans on retention calls to improve the customers’ service and/or profitability.
• Establish and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Propose customer solutions that comply with appropriate local, state and federal regulations.
• Communicate to and work with the Area Sales Managers to resolve unique customer issues.
• Demonstrate knowledge of customers’ needs, pricing and competition; effectively communicate pricing and service strategies; proactively engage other WM business opportunities, referring internally as appropriate.
• Acquire in-depth industry and company knowledge in order to prepare complex proposals and make recommendations on equipment optimization and leasing options.
• Maintain current knowledge of internal sale strategies and operational capabilities, and external market trends.
• Work closely and effectively communicate with Plant Managers and Brokerage Account Managers to assist in upgrading materials to increase profitability and achieve plant goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (accredited) or in lieu of degree
• High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and 4 years of relative work experience
• 4 years of work experience in direct business-to-business sales, business-to-business cold calling, and phone based business-to-business prospecting resulting in successfully obtaining customer appointments (in addition to education requirement)

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability
• Stock Purchase Plan
• Company match on 401K
• Paid Vacation
• Holidays
• Personal Days