Named Account Manager - Central Government/Public Sector (Rome-based)

Location
Rome, Italy
 
The Role
Nutanix is looking for a Named Account Manager, Central Government for Italy.  As the Named Account Manager, you are responsible for selling Nutanix Products and Solutions through Channel Partners and interacting directly with customers. You will also be working closely with a Pre-Sales Manager in your territory.

Essential to success in this role is a keen ability to develop new accounts and to penetrate new divisions and organizations within your assigned accounts. Nutanix provides unrivalled support and tools from the Engineering, Marketing, and Product Development departments for you to leverage to exceed sales performance goals. 

In this position, you would be working very closely with the co-founders and VPs and have a large amount of influence on sales team decisions and initiatives.   
 

Your Job 

• As a Named Account Manager you will be a key player within the Nutanix field sales team to drive net new business sales into large, new strategic accounts.
• Use relationship management techniques to develop selling opportunities within partner organizations; penetrate new divisions and organizations within assigned partner account
• Develop new selling relationships within assigned partner account; develop new direct selling
• Schedule and attend sales call appointments with a prospect in a partner organization. Nutanix Channel Partner Representatives may also participate in the sales call to help qualify the opportunity.
• Utilizing a consultative approach, discuss business issues with prospects and develop a formal quote, a written sales proposal or a formal sales presentation addressing their business needs.
• Respond to RFP's and follow up with prospects.
• Develop an account plan to sell to customers based on their business needs.
• Build and strengthen the business relationship with current accounts and new prospects.
• Recommend marketing strategies.
• Provide status information to your Manager including forecast/pipeline information.
• Provide, or facilitate training opportunities for your accounts.
• Identify Nutanix customer references that can be utilized when reference selling.
• Provide product feedback back to engineering to improve Nutanix complete block solutions

About You

• Proven sales track record of success selling technology into Large Named Accounts in the Rome Region. 
• Strong verbal and written communications skills including presentation skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with employees within the sales function and across functions including Marketing, Sales Operations, System Engineering, and Product Development.
• Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques
• An aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems as well as the competitive landscape.
• Ability to communicate with senior managers about their business challenges and Nutanix data management storage solutions.
• Experience using SFDC and other CRM software.
• Track record of exceeding assigned sales quotas in contiguous, multiple years.
• Have led a virtual team of sales-oriented employees,
• Strong coaching experience
• Strong data centre and application-led sales background
• Success in building channels
• Strong stage presence and ability to engage and persuade (Press experience desirable)
• Fluency in Italian and English is required for this role

About UsFounded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix is a passionate team of 6000+ employees worldwide. Our people (we call ourselves “Nutants”) are the heartbeat of #LifeAtNutanix and one of the many things that makes Nutanix a great place to work at. We share an intellectual curiosity, a bias for action, and an obsession for our customers. We are builders and problem solvers with an entrepreneurial spirit. Above all, we celebrate what makes each of us unique.We are humbled to be recognized as one of Bloomberg’s Top 50 Companies to Watch in 2020 and one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® 2020.We’re growing fast and disrupting the computing industry. Join us and make your mark.About our businessNutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making computing invisible anywhere. Companies around the world use Nutanix software to leverage a single platform to manage any app, at any location, at any scale for their private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.We’re an equal opportunity employerNutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an AffirmativeAction employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected by applicable law. We hire and promote individuals solely on the basis of qualifications for the job to be filled.We strive to foster an inclusive working environment that enables all our Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment.As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by contacting [email protected].