Posted almost 5 years ago

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 grow and develop our relationships with the Department of Defense (DoD) and supporting system integrators (SIs). The Red Hat Public Sector team is looking for a Public Sector Sales Account Manager to join us in McLean, VA. In this role, you will expand beyond Red Hat's existing customer base within assigned accounts, sell consulting services to encourage fast adoption of Red Hat's core competencies, and cross-sell all Red Hat's offerings. You'll need to have an excellent combination of customer-facing consulting skills and deep technical knowledge of enterprise software, including a core understanding of operating systems, virtualization, middleware deployments, and cloud computing.

• Work closely with account solutions architects to identify key projects, programs, and offices to persuade toward buying Red Hat's solutions
• Manage the account planning process and delivery of these strategic plans
• Serve as a trusted adviser for senior information technology (IT) and business executives within key accounts and create long-term partnerships with customers
• Develop new strategies for our offerings within key accounts to establish proofs of concepts and pilot implementations of Red Hat's core competencies
• Work closely with product, product engineering, professional services, and product support teams to ensure excellent customer experience with Red Hat's solutions

• 5+ years of field and solutions B2B sales experience; 3+ years specifically focused on the Department of Defense to include USTRANSCOM and the U.S. Air Force
• Proven record of working closely with customers to produce solutions that exceed their business expectations
• Extensive background in consultative customer engagement with either a major provider of enterprise software or within the sales division of an enterprise software reseller
• Record of working closely with customers to produce solutions that exceed their business expectations
• Broad experience with the government acquisition process
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including extensive experience presenting to C-level executives at large companies
• Solutions selling mindset and ability to work in an environment with multiple offerings and services
• Proven ability to work seamlessly with global cross-functional teams to achieve success for customers
• Excellent balance of strategic and tactical skills

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