National Account Manager - New Business
Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe's leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.
A fantastic business development opportunity to join our Enterprise and Mid Market organisation within Sky Business. Delivering a range of solutions leveraging our comprehensive UK wide network, extensive range of partners and our parent company Comcast Business to meet our customers needs today and into the future.You will need to be a self starter, passionate with a proven flair to establish and drive new business opportunities across a range of customers.
What you'll do:
- Identify, develop and acquire new customers and business for Sky Business with within our mid to large customer sector leveraging our ever increasing portfolio of communication services.
- Support and successfully undertake sales campaigns at sector, vertical and customer level to drive lead generation and opportunities working with cross functional teams and partners.
- Build and manage a continuous prospect pipeline with ratios to deliver and exceed sales targets.
- Be trading focused and commercially aware, you'll be continually looking for opportunities to drive profitability and faster growth for the business.
- Ensure new business customer wins are seamlessly onboarded and professionally handed over into the business.
- Partner with marketing and product management to trial and scale sales of new B2B products and value propositions (including new pricing and packaging).
- Maintain accurate and timely account pipeline and opportunity forecasts, deal status etc with real time updates and reporting on Salesforce.
What you'll bring:
- A track record of delivering high volume new business telecoms sales/deals into mid-sized to large national businesses.
- Commercially savvy - adept at optimizing a diverse range of revenue-driving KPIs
- Proven track record to secure national telecommunication accounts to prospect, present and close sales.
- Experience in a matrix, complex, sales and customer focused organisation - and ideally comfortable exposure in a build and grow business environment.
- Resilient in the face of obstacles and experienced in working in a young business with rapidly changing capabilities and demands.
- Relentless focus on achieving sales results even in the face of obstacles and the challenges of a fast evolving business.
Sky Business:
Sky Business is the business-to-business division of Sky.
We provide a wide variety of commercial premises across the UK and ROI with unrivalled entertainment, unmissable live sport and breaking news
- connecting and entertaining millions of people every day.
Our heartland is the licensed trade
- pubs, bars and hotels
- but we also provide entertainment and connectivity services to oil rigs, sports stadiums, offices, care homes and hospitals, just to name a few!
The Rewards:
There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Your office base:
This role is a Field based and involve travel around the UK including regular visits to Sky Offices, including our head office in Isleworth
Inclusion:
We are a Disability Confident Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all, and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.
We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You'll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.
Why wait?
Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can't wait to hear from you.
To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.
Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.