Account Manager

Duties
* Responsible for developing client relationships and closing the sale
* Write briefs with detailed functionality specifications
* Attend client weekly meeting to stay updated on the client's status
* Prepare quotations and contracts for clients and prospects
* Act as the project manager on the pending client projects
* Brief and follow up on the tasks of content development teams and digital operations team
* Explore new partnerships and clients
* Ability to work with and manage multi-disciplinary teams i.e. brand, research, technical, etc…
* Ensure customers are fully briefed and kept up-to-date with all digital marketing opportunities to reflect their business.
* Responsible for the quality of service and delivery of all the company's services
Qualifications
Education- Bachelor 's Degree or equivalent experience
Skills and Abilities
* Outside sales experience: ‎4 years
* Agency experience: ‎2 year
Minimum ‎3 years in selling Content Management Systems, or CRM systems, or
Digital Marketing Services or Social Media technologies and strategies
including web application systems
* Ideal candidate and preferred candidate will have experience in all of the above solutions.
* Candidates that cannot demonstrate selling these solutions through proven work experience will not be considered
* Experience in selling a solution and consulting based projects that are a minimum of $ ‎100,000 in revenues
* The Ideal candidate with have Fortune ‎5,000 experience AND higher education experience (marketing preferred)
* An alternate candidate may have experience only in higher education
* If higher education experience the ideal candidate will have experience dealing with leading higher education solutions including Blackbaud and Sunguard Luminus
* Fluent Arabic and English writing and speaking
* Must demonstrate leadership & coaching skills
* Candidate must be self starter, independent and goal oriented
* Ability to motivate the team to deliver projects
* Must have passion for technology, digital marketing, social media and building relationships
* Ability to write basic to complex presentations, briefs and proposals
* Understand the process of strategy development and planning
* Must be a problem solver and a thinker
* Expert hunter skills, generate and identify qualified sales leads in focused marquee clients, verticals, and target markets
* Excellent time management skills
* Effective management of contacts, proposal pipeline, account issues and other duties as assigned.
* Excellent communication skills including face-to-face, written, presentation and phone.
Proficiency in:
* PowerPoint
* Word Processing
* Excel
* Internet
* Email
Working Conditions
* Usually work in an office environment, but the mission of the organization may sometimes take them to nonstandard workplaces
* Work a standard work week, but additionally will often work evening, weekends, and overtime hours to accommodate activities such as Board and client meetings and representing the organization at public events