Data Centre Strategic Accounts Manager - Nordics

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For our Data Centre Segment regional Sales team we are looking for a Data Centre Strategic Accounts Manager who shall grow EATON’s revenue within large international Data Centre operating companies.

The person is expected to identify and book profitable new business directly with theses clients. For the purpose of maintaining external client focus, the person shall also function collaboratively internally with other regional and global account managers, central account support team, bid response team, business units, functional units, segment marketing and country sales organizations.

The person will be responsible for the executing the Data Centre regional & global strategy at the client account level. In doing so, they shall identify which accounts, consultants, and contractors can influence and unlock commercial opportunities for EATON. The individual must have a thorough experience and a long track record 5+ years of success in the Data Centre industry.

In general, the person shall be assigned to a number of Accounts but occasionally may also find, or be assigned, to single opportunities of interest.

The person shall follow the segment defined processes for opportunity identification, qualification, client requirement analysis and value proposition creation. The person shall oversee the technical and commercial bid response and the overall client tendering process.

To perform effectively, the person shall maintain sufficient market and competitor intelligence. They shall understand client and market primary trends and requirements and understand how competition address them and how Eaton uniquely and preferentially meets them.

Also, the person shall be highly proficient at communicating EATON's differentiated value at company, product and service levels.

Locations : Hybrid working solutions are available for Sweden / Stockholm, Denmark / Søborg or Copenhagen and Norway / Oslo.

Responsibilities

• Establish, Own, Execute continuously develop an agreed, sponsored commercial Account Plan that can meet the targets set across :
• Sales, Orders, Pipeline
• Sales Product Mix
• Margin / Profitability
• Contacts across key functions and levels
• Identify & build positive relations with all account decision makers & influencers who impact current or future business with Eaton
• Understand in-depth & be able to articulate the client buying process
• Identify, engage, secure revenue opportunities within assigned Account(s)
• Understand & Capture clients challenges & requirements and resolve with reference to Eaton portfolio
• Oversee and align the commercial and engineering response to tenders to client requirements
• Finalize commercial process and secure purchase orders and framework agreements
• Oversee effective handover to post order project management, product services & customer support teams
• Maintain oversight to all commercial related engagements for customer success / satisfaction and our performance as vendor
• Knowledgeable on clients business, commercial condition, structure, strategy, operations and challenges. Be able to articulate this in terms of opportunity, growth, risk with respect to Eaton business
• Be an effective advocate and communicator of the benefits in supporting your assigned accounts, within Eaton organization
• Know and report your account numbers. Be continuously aware of targets and current business levels within the account for both 'year to date' and forecast for order intake & revenue information. Responsible for reporting the narrative & the numbers
• Collaborate effectively with other sales and stakeholders at function, country, region and global level. To both gain and provide support so others can function and meet their responsibilities to the account
• Provide all internal stakeholder and functional departments the account specific guidance and insights required so that they can execute their role and add value to the client
• Build a multi-lane bridge between Eaton and the client organization. This may include R&D, Product Managers, BU Engineers, BDM, Marketing, PMO, Services, Sales Operations & Order Management, Supply Chain, Leadership & Executive Management
• Request & Support marketing campaigns (ABM) & activity that can grow Eaton to Client relations and business

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