Best Buy Business Account Manager - Education

As the Best Buy Business Account Manager - Education, you will serve as a professional salesperson who has an entrepreneurial spirit, internal drive for success, and sales skills that build on a consultative selling process. Successful AMs will leverage the tools and resources provided by Best Buy and our vendor partners, build and maintain existing relationships with customers, and prospect and generate new relationships, educate customers on our offerings and capabilities, produce credible opportunities, and complete successful closure of solution sales. The Account Manager is a base pay plus commission-based role. This is a consultative sales process that requires an individual to have an entrepreneurial spirit and drive for success. You must be able to work in a fast-paced role in an ever-changing environment. You can expect the need to multi-task at a moment’s notice and have strong interpersonal skills when interacting with internal employees, external customers, vendors, and channel partners.
This role is remote eligible, which means you would work virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. This role is intended to support current and prospect new clients on the west coast and should be able to support working hours for the PST. i.e. If you live in CST, you could expect to work ~10AM-7PM CST.
What you’ll do

• Serve as a trusted business advisor to customers by engaging cross-functionally to achieve goals and meet their needs
• Analyze multiple market factors to both anticipate/identify customer problems/needs and recommend appropriate solutions while balancing short-term and long-term priorities
• Gain knowledge of and execute against both internal and external resources (i.e. Navigator, Zoom info, CRM, Qlikview)
• Develop and implement account plans that drive the attainment of critical business
• Support contract negotiations and possess strong financial/business and pricing knowledge

Basic qualifications

• 2 or more years of phone based selling experience
• 2 or more years of experience prospecting clients

Preferred qualifications

• Candidates geographically located in the PST region, particularly California, to support the west coast market are preferred
• Bachelor's Degree
• Knowledge of and experience with Microsoft CRM, Navigator, Zoom Info or equivalent resources
• Experience selling off of contracts

What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:

• Competitive pay
• Generous employee discount
• Financial savings and retirement resources
• Physical and mental well-being support

About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™