Strategic Account Manager

About The Job

The Red Hat Enterprise Sales team is looking for an Strategic Account Manager to join us in India. In this role, you will be responsible for retaining and growing sales within Enterprise accounts, helping our customers and partners make business and IT transformations using Red Hat services and solutions. As an Strategic Account Manager, you will gain an understanding of our customers processes, needs, and challenges, promoting the value of Red Hat's solutions and how they can deliver value to the customer.

What You Will Do

• Translate Red Hat's sales strategy into a relevant account-level strategy for each customer
• Deliver on the account strategy to manage performance and customer success in key accounts, retaining and growing bookings through strategic account planning
• Apply knowledge of use cases and Red Hat's key offering value proposition to identify and act upon opportunities to guide upsell, cross-sell, and renewals across the Red Hat portfolio while deepening penetration within accounts
• Orchestrate solution architects, specialist teams, Customer Success team, and industry experts to align Red Hat's use cases to client needs, managing end to end sales to develop solutions that deliver business value
• Coordinate support from specialist solutions architects, sales solutions specialists, and industry experts to manage end to end sales and deliver customer value
• Cultivate relationships across customer organizations to position Red Hat as a key partner to their business
• Collaborate with the Customer Success team to co-develop success and growth plans, understanding how the customer derives value from Red Hat's solutions to support expansion and retention and ensure that Red Hat meets or exceeds the customer success criteria
• Engage partners where appropriate to strengthen Red Hat's customer value proposition

What You Will Bring

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

Inclusion at Red Hat

Red Hat's culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village.

Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)

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Skills Required

hybrid cloud , Account Strategy, Value Engineering, Customer Success, Sales Strategy