Junior Account Manager Reading, England
Job description
Come create the technology that helps the world act together
Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.
We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.
The team you’ll be part of
The Customer Experience organization provides a common interface to customers including account and relationship management, acting as the voice of the customer internally and creating demand across our business groups. While bringing deep understanding of local markets for our customer, the CX organization ensures strong alignment between sales and delivery teams.
The role we are recruiting for is for a Junior Account Manager to support the sales engagement and relationship development with some of our key customers working together with an experienced sales leader and a wider virtual team.
What you will learn and contribute to
As part of our team, you will:
- Contribute to and help implementing a detailed and highly evolved Sales Strategy to position Nokia within the account
- Clearly identify business potential, short, mid and long-term opportunities and directly represent Nokia within the account or to customer personnel up to senior management levels
- Liaise effectively with your customer(s) Pre-Sales, Technical or Marketing specialists to meet customer requirements, and drive virtual teams to address the customer need
- Develop and foster customer contacts and achieve "trusted advisor" status within the account and negotiate, where possible, long term supply and support agreements with the account
- Develop new business lines across multiple departments within the account
Your skills and experience
- An energetic customer focused sales professional that thrives on the front line and is driven by hunting and closing new business
- Can-do attitude & team player with proven ability to influence others to achieve sales goals
- Few years of experience of Account Management and Business Development preferably in the Telecoms sector
- Strong financial acumen, challenger attitude and natural entrepreneurial spirit
It would be nice if you also:
- Customer relationships within key UK CSP’s is considered an advantage but not mandatory.
- Good understanding of the end-to-end mobile/fixed carrier arena, its opportunities and challenges.
What we offer
Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.
Nokia UK Limited offer a Flexible Benefits programme (Flex) where additional benefits can be purchased through salary. These include, but are not limited to, Dental insurance, Travel insurance, Critical Illness Insurance and Health Assessments.
Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer
Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:
- One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
- Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
- Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
- LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation
At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.
Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, colour, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.
Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.
