CE-Professional Print Account Manager

As a PP Account Manager you play a vital part in Canons innovative business sales team & you will be responsible for bringing in new Business to Business (B2B) clients & renewing upselling & cross selling to existing clients in the UAE hence creating revenue growth by growing sales of Production Print Products.

By regularly engaging with new potential customers & existing customers in this vertical you will serve as the relationship lead to these clients as well as an internal advocate for the clients at CE.

You are responsible for understanding each clients unique environment business needs technology vision & internal motivations. Using this knowledge & your technical background you will seek out ways to fulfill clients needs & grow each clients annual revenue & strive to ensure client satisfaction & retention & maximize the awareness of the brands name within the country.

What we give

With Canon youll get the support and encouragement you need to grow from people who share your ambition. Well invest in your professional development to help you learn and progress in your role with us. Youll find leaders who give you the freedom to explore new things and a team where knowledge is shared openly.

At Canon we have a clear vision: to be committed to creating a more inclusive and equitable culture where employees are valued and can thrive personally and professionally.

Canon also has a strong commitment to sustainability encompassed by our Kyosei philosophy of living and working together for the common good focused on reducing our environmental impact and creating opportunities to make positive social contribution.

• Responsible to sell the Canon Production Print Products
• Generating top quality prospects from small to bigsize new businesses across the UAE & manage a very active pipeline with short or long sale cycles. Acquire & close new business deals through cold calling & prospecting.
• Responsible for the care retention & revenue growth of the existing clients
• Establishing strong business contacts/relationships with stakeholders including data gathering & leading the customer on journey to becoming a customer and keeping them happy
• Identify qualified prospects & navigate company structures to identify decision makers. Proactively seek new avenues to penetrate clients & attract prospects and Identify opportunities to grow business with existing clients.
• Applying consultative sales skills required to assist in explaining product benefits & features overcoming objections & closing sales
• Drives customer engagements meetings develop opportunities & other skilled assets to position propose & close deals.
• Deliver face to face &/or online presentations & proposals.
• Maintain active pipeline report through Salesforce logging all activities.
• Quotes prices & rates as needed to close the deal.
• Assist with the analysis and preparation of recommendations that will drive greater productivity cost reduction or quality/process improvement.
• Able to gather (high level/detailed) customer requirements & sound understanding of business processes translating in a highlevel solution design.
• Build compelling value propositions supported with a solution design supported with a clear business case (financial & business drivers) in customers meeting.
• Work in collaboration with the Canon Presales Consultants and Professional Services to define the best solution to propose to the customer.
• You are able to formulate complex facts/solutions comprehensibly.

What we ask

• Bachelors Degree in any field
• Extensive knowhow in the area of business process optimization digital transformation themes and/or in the field of cost calculation as well as analysis and benchmarking
• Strong interest and motivated in familiarizing yourself with the topic of new technologies and current IT vendors landscape.
• B2B Account Management background is preferred.
• Proven lead generation and cold calling (telephone or face2face) experience
• Outstanding lead generation sales business development & negotiation skills
• Social media skills (Linked In Networking etc.
• Excellent Interpersonal & Communication Skills (written & verbal)
• Excellent Mathematical & analytical thinking
• English is mandatory & Arabic is an advantage.
• Experience using MS Office tools Advanced Salesforce usage & Knowledge.
• Adaptable to unforeseen situations keep focus on the customer & make empowered decisions with integrity empathy & compassion.
• Consultative sales skills required to assist in explaining product benefits & features overcoming objections & closing sales
• Ability to translate potential client needs into sales opportunities.
• Excellent listener assertive persistent persuasive & results oriented.
• Strong hunter / new business development skills in B2B sales with a desire to exceed expectations & quotas.
• Ensure the timely & successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs & objectives.
• Responsible for keeping current clients satisfied & delivering exceptional client service on a daytoday basis.
• apply appropriate sales techniques & demonstrate sustained achievement of stated goals.
• Must be a selfstarter with effective time management skills.
• Valid UAE driving license & car is a must.
• Experience on color management and printing industry is must.

You will need

• Mission focused: mission is to close new business
• Numbersdriven: know that sales are numbers game & are always looking for ways to be more productive & efficient.
• Competitive: thrive on competition with others or yourselves. You hate to lose even more than you love to win.
• Persistent: do not take no for an answer & you have no problem being seen as borderline pushy
• Independent: like to see yourselves as lone wolves who do not need a pack or even a leader to get the job completed