At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies. Help us increase Red Hat’s market share and revenue and be a key part of our Field Sales team. The Red Hat Sales team is looking for a Sales Account Manager with experience selling high-tech solutions and services to join us in Canberra, Australia. In this role, you will work in the defense area of federal government and be responsible for building new relationships and expanding and improving business with existing customers. You will oversee all aspects of the sale including pricing negotiations, contract development, and order fulfillment, as well as the management of internal associates including sales engineering support and technical support issues. As a Sales Account Manager, you’ll need to be comfortable working with partner sales and services teams and IT and business executives and you’ll need to have extensive experience developing and carrying out sales plans. Your success will be measured by your ability to meet quantitative and qualitative performance goals and set high standards for articulation and presentation of key messages and the Red Hat value proposition.

• Successfully sell our solutions and services in an assigned government territory
• Create tactical sales plans and lead the extended Sales team in carrying them out to maximize revenue and growth
• Meet assigned sales quota by acquiring new customer accounts and renewing and growing existing relationships
• Call on prospective customers and provide technical and administrative information, demonstrations, and price quotes for our offerings
• Accurately forecast and close sales in alignment with company goals

• 5+ years of sales experience with a demonstrated record of success, preferably in the software or IT industry
• 5+ years of successful business and territory or industry development experience
• Understanding of the complete sales cycle management from prospect to close
• Excellent communication skills; ability to articulate comprehensive technological strategies to a wide range of decision makers within an organization including technical, business, and C-level audiences
• Experience with UNIX and Linux-related sales cycles is a plus

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