Account Manager – Oil & Gas
General Description:
Lead sales and business development on the Oil & Gas territory. Must possess competent understanding of enterprise IT business and Oil & Gas industry solutions. Accountable for meeting GBM revenue targets in products and GBM value add services, Increasing GBM profit, improving customers’ experience and lowering GBM business’ risks and A/Rs. Must have excellent inter-personal communication, leadership, organizing and relationship building skills with proficiency on project and change management. Capable to perform under pressure both as a leader and a team player. Great ability to evaluate and identify new business opportunities for growth. Develop and maintain excellent relationship internally and with customers team and C level executives.
Job Responsibilities:
- Sales and marketing
• Preferably have existing relationships with Oil & Gas Customers in Qatar.
• Acquire strategic position for GBM and differentiate GBM from competition.
• Promote and sell GBM services and GBM partners products.
• Lead & win digital transformation engagements, GBM services and support & maintenance contracts.
• Build and develop GBM pipeline of qualified and to be qualified business opportunities.
• Innovate and develop demand for GBM portfolio of products and services.
• Promote GBM events, generate leads and follow up on leads generated by other GBM colleagues and GBM partners.
• Maximize GBM wallet share by increasing GBM participation in customers’ projects Up-sell and cross sell when appropriate.
• Co-own bid preparation and lead bid readiness & submission.
- Revenue
• Achieve assigned revenue and GBM value-add services targets.
• Work closely with GBM Project Managers to ensure successful projects’ delivery according to contract scope, budget, and time schedule while improving customer satisfaction and customer experience in working with GBM.
- Profit
• Cooperate with LOB to maximize GBM profit and reduce GBM risks.
• Manager customer expectations and avoid overcommitment.
• Lead and support GBM team in contract negotiation with customers to protect GBM interest, reduce financial and legal risks while improving customers’ payment terms in favor of GBM.
- Collection A/R
• Coordinate with GBM team to ensure GBM met its commitments, GBM invoices are accepted by customers and are paid on time.
• Proactively engage with GBM A/R Team to identify solutions for account receivable issues.
- Customer Experience & Satisfaction
• Align customer expectation and GBM execution to ensure great customer experience in dealing with GBM.
• Address customers’ concerns and propose remedial action agreeable in-between GBM and customer.
• Monitor the execution of action plan and ensure that the progress meets the expectations and to the satisfaction of GBM and your customer.
• Build relationship and coordinate GBM engagement for best customer experience and for customer to rate GBM as the best company to do business with.
- Relationship Management & Customer Insight (LOB/IT)
• Gain respect as trusted advisor and business manager for customers set with the IT Department team, management and customers LOB team and management.
• Acquire deep understanding of customers’ corporate strategy, KPIs, future projects, initiatives, and immediate needs of customer set.
• Gain detailed understanding of customers’ organization structure and decision-making process.
• Build trusted relationship with key decision makers for each major opportunity, understand the influence map and build effective strategy for closing major opportunities.
• Regularly arrange meetings with GBM management to maintain dialog with customers’ management and leadership team.
• Gain competitive insights from customer related to key initiatives including but not limited to preference in technology, partners, budget and position GBM major value proposition to differentiate it from competition.
- Skills and Oi & Gas Industry Insight
• Abreast with GBM portfolio of offerings and solutions.
• Develop and maintain a deeper understanding of the Oil & Gas industry sector that customers are in and keep up with trends and challenges directly or indirectly affecting the customers.
• Keep up to date with the latest information about local market influences, challenges and competition.
• Acquire and maintain IT and Oil & Gas industry sector sales certifications and improve your capabilities.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks.
- Operational Excellence and Leadership
• Adhere to GBM’s processes and guidelines.
• Meet assigned revenue, GBM services and A/R collection targets.
• Provide timely and accurate business forecast.
• Conduct, lead and document and update Account Planning involving relevant stakeholders. Coordinate and monitor execution plan.
• Develop winning plan for GBM business opportunities. Execute win plan and coordinate GBM team participation.
• Lead communication and facilitate collaboration among GBM team members engaged in your customers set.
• Identify and mitigate potential business risk that may impact GBM’s business with the customer and keep GBM management updated.
• Propose improvement to develop GBM business.
• Propose processes improvement for better GBM performance.
Qualifications / Skills:
• Enterprise IT functional and business value skills
• Oil & Gas Industry Sector business skills
• Sales planning & sales closing skills
• Prospecting and business development
• Opportunity qualification
• Relationship and conflict management
• Forecasting and business planning
• Business risk assessment & management
• Negotiation and contracting skills
• Time-management & scheduling
• Communication verbal, writing and presentation
• Team leader and team player
• Project & performance management