Account Executive

smartdept,inc is looking for a successful Account Executive that is a high-energy hunter for our St. Louis based client! The candidate will be comfortable and have experience building relationships at all levels. This role will be remote to start however, eventually will be partially on site and may require heavy travel visiting clients face to face in St. Louis. 

what you'll do: 

• Identify, uncover, and develop account opportunities.
• Up selling and leveraging business from new and established customer relationships.
• Excellent ability to properly qualify projects to maximize an efficient sales cycle.
• Develop and deliver custom sales presentations and demonstrations.
• Choreograph and conduct on-site assessments of customer requirements and needs.
• Collaborate with internal creative department and clients to assist in development of effective advertising campaigns.
• Partner with Charting, Creative, Operations and Administrative staff to ensure on time delivery of advertisements in agreed upon locations.
• Assist in the resolution of issues related to billing and accounts.

what you'll need: 

• Ability to successfully work under tight project deadlines.
• Ability to understand existing business processes as well as investigate and troubleshoot issues in a time critical environment.
• Ability to link vision and strategy with overall business objectives and communicate rationale in a compelling, concise manner.
• Demonstrate a repertoire of skills such as scheduling, prioritizing, organizing, planning, problem solving, decision-making, financial savvy, and attention to detail, and follow through.
• Maintain a big picture, strategic outlook with the ability to iterate from company strategy and planning
• Self-motivated, standout colleague, action-and-results oriented.
• Well organized, exceptional communication and presentation skills- effective communicator/presenter to groups of all sizes and levels of management
• Extraordinary selling capability and full sales cycle experience
• Ability to sell at all levels including C-Level positions