Senior Public Sector Account Manager

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**What we're looking for**:**
What we're looking for**:
You are an experienced Public Sector Account Manager with a demonstrated ability to sell complex software solutions to large public sector and enterprise accounts and possess a strong history of quota achievement.

You have extensive sales experience and can establish relationships and engage with the business and IT at management level to identify opportunities and sell Citrix products and services direct to existing named accounts or specified strategic accounts.

**Position overview**:
As the Public Sector Account Manager, you develop accounts with high potential into larger accounts with regular revenue generation. You create partnership-based relationships with customers, covering 20-25 public sector-level accounts. You drive consistent revenue generation selling the entire Citrix portfolio and transform transactional/opportunistic customer relationships into continuous relationships.

You use your experience to effectively build and lead teams of Citrix and channel partner resources to achieve established account strategies.

**What you will be doing**:

- Establish relationships and engage with the business and IT management level to identify opportunities and sell Citrix products and services direct to existing named accounts or specified strategic accounts, understanding their business and IT strategies, priorities and goals.
- Carry a revenue quota to meets or exceed sales targets and demonstrate continuous progress towards achieving account strategies.
- Interact strongly with customer at the Senior Management level with support on forming a relationship with C level contacts within these accounts. Understand and document customer’s business and IT strategies, priorities and goals.
- Identify, develop, execute, and maintain account strategies to drive adoption of Citrix products and services revenue within assigned enterprise accounts and their subsidiaries and affiliates.
- Establish and lead teams of internal and external resources to identify, pursue, and close specific opportunities consistent with account strategies.
- Establish and maintain close relationships with inside sales, systems engineers, consultants, and sales specialists to access and leverage from appropriate internal resources.
- Establish and maintain relationships with resellers, system integrators, and any other external partner to develop and achieve account strategies and opportunity plans.
- Understand and navigate account procurement practices to successfully negotiate profitable licensing contracts.
- Drive prompt resolution of customer issues and ensures high levels of customer satisfaction with Citrix products and services.
- Serve as the primary client contact for non-technical or support issues requiring escalation.
- Provide regular and efficient updates on assigned accounts to sales management.- Assist in securing non-commissionable revenue in assigned accounts (including Subscription Advantage).

**What we are looking for**:

- Demonstrated track record of establishing strategic executive level relationships to position and sell software and services.
- Proven ability to develop and maintain executive level relationships with both business and IT customers.
- Proven ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal marketing, technology, implementation, and product development teams.
- Strong consultative selling ability - critical questioning, listening, analytical, negotiation, communication, and presentation.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and articulate compelling qualitative and quantitative business cases for IT solutions.
- Proven ability to manage long, complex sales cycles from beginning to end. Accounts are key, highly strategic and have complex requirements.
- Proven ability to close large complex deals with enterprise accounts.
- Demonstrated knowledge of strategic/large account sales techniques and processes including the ability to understand customer needs, overcome objections, develop business cases, and negotiate and close deals.
- Solid understanding of Citrix competitive domain and technologies

**Basic Requirements**:

- Degree educated or equivalent experience preferred
- Sales experience, with extensive experience selling software to large enterprise accounts preferred
- Experience working with external partners to develop and close business within enterprise accounts
- Proven track record in both negotiating complex software licensing agreements as well closing deals
- Track record of meeting or exceeding enterprise sales quotas in excess o