Workstation Account Executive - Higher Education **General Information** Req # WD00077576 Career area: Sales Country/Region: United States of America State: North Carolina City: Morrisville Date: Friday, January 24, 2025 Working time: Full-time **Additional Locations** : * United States of America - Illinois - Chicago * United States of America - Florida - Miami * United States of America - Georgia - Atlanta * United States of America - Florida - Tampa * United States of America - Florida - Orlando * United States of America - Tennessee - Nashville * United States of America - Florida - Tallahassee **Why Work at Lenovo** We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers. Lenovo is a US$57 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #248 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY). This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com , and read about the latest news via ourStoryHub (https://news.lenovo.com/) . **Description and Requirements** The ideal Workstation Account Executive will be aggressive, goal-oriented, articulate and possess strong collaboration skills. A technical mindset with the self-motivation to reach high performance goals is a must. An understanding of Professional Workstation performance and solutions is preferred. You will work to build sales opportunity pipeline across Higher Education customers though supporting and enabling Lenovo Client Managers, PC Specialists and Channel Account Managers. Beyond driving Professional Workstation revenue though the collective sales teams you support, the successful execution of this role will include identifying and qualifying leads, delivering presentations on Workstation Solutions, negotiating contracts, and securing new clients as well as fostering relationships with existing ones. You will be engaged in strategic selling, closing deals with high value ROI for both the clients and the company. A critical function of this role will include understanding and delivering weekly sales forecast metrics and opportunity/pipeline management. A strong Workstation Account Executive will have a high capacity for guiding complex sales cycles simultaneously across several deals in the assigned territory. This person should be comfortable engaging internal resources for help creating the bandwidth needed to maintain a productive territory. Key personal attributes to successfully manage the high workflow in this role will include a creative mindset, self-driven individual with empathy, collaborative teaming, and tenacity. This position is an outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated professional with strong sales acumen, operational and strategic skills in performance compute technologies. An innovative mentality, and passionate perseverance is required to ensure our Lenovo performance class Workstation Solution is not only considered but is ultimately adopted. **Basic Qualifications:** + 5+ years of strategic sales and operational experience, preferably in highly matrixed structure **Preferred Qualifications:** + Strong and successful customer facing experience and knowledgeable in complex sales cycles + Superior organizational skills and project/time management abilities + Creative technical mindset for technology solutions with ability to identify ROI for both the client and the company + Excellent communication skills with ability to simplify and explain complex problems + Excellent sales execution skills and assertiveness to track and follow the client decision process end-to-end + The highest level of integrity and an unwavering sense of what is best for the business + Executive level presentation skills and a comfort level presenting to an audience is preferred + Experience in the Higher Education space an advantage. Able to travel up to 50% of the time _We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class._ **Additional Locations** : * United States of America - Illinois - Chicago * United States of America - Florida - Miami * United States of America - Georgia - Atlanta * United States of America - Florida - Tampa * United States of America - Florida - Orlando * United States of America - Tennessee - Nashville * United States of America - Florida - Tallahassee * United States of America * United States of America - Florida , * United States of America - Georgia , * United States of America - Illinois , * United States of America - Tennessee * United States of America - Illinois - Chicago , * United States of America - Florida - Miami , * United States of America - Georgia - Atlanta , * United States of America - Florida - Tampa , * United States of America - Florida - Orlando , * United States of America - Tennessee - Nashville , * United States of America - Florida - Tallahassee