Major Account Executive (Solution Sales) Zambia

Team Overview

Focusing on the management and growth of TransUnion’s market share, you should be passionate about driving innovative sales approaches to identify and understand client’s business issues, focusing on opportunities to secure existing revenue and growth, through effective strategic solutions that drive incremental and new revenue opportunities. Through strategic planning, marketing, business development, thought leadership and ongoing management of relationships you will drive revenue through the deployment of innovative solutions. This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

Role Overview And Core Responsibilities

How You’ll Contribute:

• Connects client accounts and new clients to TU’s solutions with real impact and measurable results by developing business value analysis (e.g. ROI) and providing strategic advice.

• Develops sales strategies to grow revenue from existing and new sales opportunities.

• Participates in and/or ensure quality in customer engagements with the most strategic customers and deliver increased customer satisfaction and better opportunities for TU.

• Responsible for achieving revenue quotas for large strategic, opportunity clients by hunting for new opportunities, client acquisitions, additional solution sales at enterprise or large sized clients.

• Develops three year strategic view of client base detailing transformational ideas.

• Facilitates ideation, white boarding sessions to optimize share shift opportunities.

• Understands competitor awareness to maximize penetration in markets held by the competition and foster partnerships with new and existing customers.

• Understands client’s financials to co-create effective strategies to identify opportunities.

• Uses prolonged silences and handles objections to seller advantage.

• Properly interprets verbal and physical cues to gauge customer reaction and interest.

• Diagnoses when customer is unclear and ensures comprehension.

• Establishes deep and effective relationships with all key clients due to credible and influential network.

• Consistently interacts in a way that promotes openness and trust.

• Keeps commitments to agreed upon actions.

• Acts consistently with the organizations values and ensures that words and actions are consistent.

• Owns the C-Suite relationship.

• Understands TU workflow and value chain, understand internal client delivery processes in order to ensure C-Suite satisfaction.

• Creates opportunities to provide a unique or contrarian perspective during commercial conversations.

• Works with clients to understand CBI’s and positions TU as a partner to jointly solve problems.

• Engages with clients in a manner that makes them feel they own the solution.

• Utilizes probing and questioning techniques to understand client context, client’s strategic drivers and gaps to fix problems.

• Develops and implements solutions to assist clients.

• Has diverse commercial and deal structuring acumen.

• Develops sales tactic plans that caters for what is the action item and what are the results by when.

• Reviews client industry standards, follow industry trends.

• Management of pipeline opportunities to engage directly with partners and product management teams to close opportunities.

• Meets or exceeds monthly and yearly Sales Revenue and Gross Profit target goals.