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Job Description Job Title: Strategic Account Manager Reports to: Vice President and General Manager – North America Classification: Exempt Summary: This position maintains and expands relationships with strategically important, named large customers within a specified geographic region. The Strategic Account Manager is responsible for achieving sales quota through the development of a strategic plan addressing the individual customer’s goals and objectives. The Strategic Account Manager represents the entire range of company products and services to the assigned customers. Responsible for leading the customer account planning cycle and ensuring that the assigned customers’ needs and expectations are met by the company. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, individual must be able to perform each of the primary duties satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required: • Establishes productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned customer accounts., • Coordinates the involvement of company personnel including Support, Service and Management resources to orchestrate resolution of customer technical questions, concerns and escalations., • Proactively leads a joint company-strategic account planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, financial targets and critical milestones for a one- and three-year period., • Proactively prospects and generates sales leads throughout the assigned region., • Presents and sells company products and services to current and potential customers., • Follows up on leads generated from trade shows, field activity, referrals, Internet research and cold calls., • Proactively assesses, clarifies and validates customer needs and status on an ongoing basis., • Collects information needed to generate quotations., • Partners with customer to follow up, negotiate price and close orders., • Prepares presentations, proposals and sales contracts., • Business development in Key Accounts allowing for increased cross-selling opportunities and overall account management., • Leads solution development efforts that best address customer needs, while coordinating the involvement of all necessary company personnel., • Coordinates with Product Management to suggest enhancements that will drive customer satisfaction, increase product influence or broaden sales channels., • Must be able to travel domestically and internationally overnight, as needed, up to 70% of the time. Must possess a valid passport., • This position requires the use of EVG hired vehicles on EVG business. Individuals must be physically capable of operating the vehicles safely, possess a valid driver’s license and have acceptable driving privileges., • Other duties, as assigned. Additional Duties and Responsibilities: • Develops the annual sales order intake forecast for the designated strategic territory within the parameters defined by Management., • Closely coordinates company Executive involvement with customer Management., • Meets or exceed annual sales order intake forecast., • Documents customer contact activity., • Creates, reviews and revises quotations accurately., • Completes required training and development objectives within the assigned timeframe., • Provides weekly status report of Sales activity. Qualifications / Education / Skills and Experience: • This position requires a four (4) year college degree in Engineering or Marketing or equivalent related experience in the semiconductor/microelectronics industry., • Requires a minimum of five (5) years of experience in the semiconductors/microelectronics industry or five (5) years of capital equipment sales experience., • Must be computer literate with MS Office software and have excellent oral and written communication skills to create and edit written materials and to persuade and influence others., • Experience with Miller Heiman and Seibel CRM preferred. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee in this position. Employee will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or abilities.

Job DescriptionCompany Description Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges. At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation. Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest standards of quality and performance in everything we do. Job Description Who You'll Work With As a team member of the Arista Sales team, you are the face of Arista to our customers; their internal champion for the problems they need to solve. As their champion you will align Arista’s technical resources to achieve your customer’s business outcome. You will partner with some of the most skilled Customer Engineers in the industry in addition to our Professional Services and Executive teams to help them understand how to execute on your customer’s behalf. Our sales teams have a culture of team success, where you’ll collaborate and be supported by like minded sales professionals. This role typically reports to a Regional Sales Manager or Area VP of Sales. What You'll Do We currently have an opening for a Sales Associate Account Manager to join our growing Sales organization in the Minneapolis, MN area. This is an amazing opportunity for an individual who wants to pursue a career in sales. In this role you will be responsible for collaborating with the Sales Leadership team and Senior Account Managers to perform internal sales support functions including new sales pipeline development, lead generation, field marketing activities and sales operations support for Field Account Managers in the region. Arista appeals very strongly to engineering-centric organizations and thus a strong technical acumen and track record of selling data center networking solutions has proven to be highly valuable. Job Responsibilities: * You will conduct lead generation calls with key customer influencers and present the Arista value proposition to generate new meetings for Field Account Managers. * You will generate new opportunities for Arista's Software-Driven Data Center and Campus switching platforms in addition to our Cloud based Wireless WIFI solutions, DANZ Fabric Monitoring and Zero Trust security products. * Drive new attendees to marketing events. * You will assist with the planning and coordination of quarterly field marketing events and track attendance metrics. * You provide Sales operations support for Field Account Managers including sales quote assistance, order submissions, and assistance with billing issues. * Attend sales training and shadow Senior Account Managers for career progression to a Field Territory Account Manager position. * Keep up-to-date with technology partner solutions, competing solutions and competitor strategies. The Team This position will typically report to a Regional Sales Director or Regional VP of Sales. You will be part of a team that includes the best field engineers in the cloud networking industry. And, you will have the support of our industry-leading Arista TAC, proof-of-concept resources and executive team. Qualifications Who are you? We are seeking an Associate level Sales Representative who is passionate about pursuing and growing a career in technology sales. Our team looks for individuals who embody our values of trust, compassion, collaboration, respectfulness, integrity, and good-natured fun. Minimum Job Requirements: * BS/BA/BBA degree or equivalent in addition to 2-3+ years of technology sales experience. * You possess previous experience in roles or internships in Sales, Marketing, Sales Operations or Sales Associate * Experience supporting Capital Market and Trading Firms a plus * Excellent people skills and ability to build relationships at all levels * You have a passion for technology and a strong technical acumen in any of the following areas, Cloud, Networking, Virtualization, Network Security, Compute, SaaS/IaaS, Wireless (Wifi), Network Monitoring * Ability to work in a fast paced work environment Compensation Information The new hire base pay for this role has a salary range of $63,000.00 to $90,000.00. The actual salary offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and US location. The salary range provided reflects the base salary and in addition may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses, commissions, equity, and benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location. #LI-SR1 Additional Information Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.