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Job Ref:  12157
Employer:  Waste Management.
City:  Albany
State/Province:  New York
Country:  United States
Type of Employment:  Full Time
Environmental Categories:  Other
Industries:  Other/Not Classified
Required Education:  Other
Job Description: 
I. Job Summary

Generates revenue growth by utilizing a consultative selling approach in the retention of current Waste Management customers. Manages existing business relationships in order to achieve budgeted sales goals by developing and implementing sound retention strategies, utilizing strong negotiation efforts to preserve business, and securing contract agreements from previously non-contracted customers. The Account Manager will "save, secure, and convert" by handling all customer cancellation requests, providing ongoing education of contract details to existing customers, and by obtaining customer contract commitments during face-to-face interactions. All escalations for customer service within the defined territory will be resolved through this position.


II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned.



  • Managing business to business sales relationships

  • Developing detailed proposals encompassing multiple services

  • Researching aspects of the waste and environmental services business

  • Attending conferences/symposiums as a means of networking and staying current with industry-and market-related information

  • Assignment management

  • Building trusting relationships

  • Providing high-impact Communication

  • Able to identify pertinent Local, County, State, and/or Federal government regulations

  • Responsible for prospecting and closing to achieve budgeted sales goals by developing and implementing sound selling strategies that ensure revenue growth by selling to new customers only

  • Manage prospects by developing sound marketing plans and maintaining key information in the prospect database

  • Reduces lost major accounts by diffusing cancellation requests. Meets or exceeds sales call activity goals for proactive account retention.

  • Increases revenue and profitability by executing sound plans on retention calls to improve the customers' service and/or profitability.

  • Matches Waste Management services with customer needs by demonstrating knowledge of customers, pricing and competition; effectively communicates pricing and service strategies; proactively engages other Waste Management business opportunities, referring internally as appropriate.

  • Effectively use Waste Management sales productivity software tools (i.e. Prospect and Customer Database, Proposal Program, Pricing Tools, etc.).

  • Proposes customer solutions that are compliant with appropriate local, state and federal regulations.

  • Devising sales approaches and solutions

  • Marshalling resources

  • Sales negotiation

  • Sales opportunity analysis



III. Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory duties.



IV. Work Environment


Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.


  • Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc) part of the work day;

  • Required to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 30 pounds rarely;

  • Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic chemicals, etc) rarely;

  • Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements rarely;

  • Normal setting for this job is: office setting and/or outside sales.

V. Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.


A. Education and Experience


• Required: Bachelor's degree or 5-years sales experience in lieu of bachelor's degree, plus 1 year in direct business-to-business sales, and phone based business-to-business prospecting resulting in successfully obtaining customer appointments



Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Sales/Marketing plus 3-years of progressive and successful business-to-business sales.



B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements


• 20 hours of training with Resource Conservation and recovery Act (RCRA)

• Certifications: WM CRA

• Involved in one or more of the following: U.S. green Build council (USGBC), American Institute of Architects (AIA), Associated general Contractors of America (AGC), Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), or National Association of Home Builders


C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required


Ability to convert customer cancellation requests in order to maintain revenue levels, and/or complex negotiations skills required. General Competencies Include:


• Comprehensive understanding of construction industry (phases, materials, waste, etc.)

• Techniques for identifying and managing new business opportunities

• Techniques for identifying and responding to objections

• Techniques for bypassing "Gatekeepers"

• Understands the competitive landscape in the local area

• Understands "Green" influences and sustainability

• Analyze and solve problems

• Conduct formal presentations

• Able to design customized solutions that address more than just waste services

• Excellent business and communication skills

• Understands how to calculate price and amounts such as discounts

• Basic software and web-based applications

• Active Learning

• Sales Disposition

• Motivational Fit

• Sustainability

01/17/2012

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