Training Services Account Specialist

About The Job: The Red Hat Training and Certification team is looking for a  Training Specialist to join the team in India. The Training and Certification team is an award-winning, customer-facing group within Red Hat that increases customer retention by providing offerings that are some of the most desirable within the IT industry. As a Training Specialist, you will be responsible for meeting financial goals by acquiring new business, growing existing business and nurturing customers throughout their training and certification journey.  In this role, you will partner closely with your sales and services teams and partners to help promote Red Hat Training and Certification to your customer base. What Will You Do: Grow existing business relationships and acquire new business within your assigned territory/segment/vertical by selling training and certification offerings. Exceed financial goals, including sales bookings and revenue Work directly with customers (in person or virtually), to craft and execute on their training and certification plans. Effectively communicate with high-level customer executives on a regular basis to position training offerings into large, complex deals. Engage with partners to drive force multiplication of  Red Hat enablement within their companies as well as with their customers Negotiate terms/pricing/contracts and advance them through to closure Manage consumption and renewals of Red Hat Learning Subscription (RHLS) Manage forecasts, provide quotes, scope proposals, close deals, and track data through Salesforce.com (SFDC) and our learning management system (LMS) Work extensively with cross-functional sales teams (in person and virtual) and partners to grow business in your specific territory/segment/vertical Act as a subject-matter expert on training and certification both internally and externally in your assigned territory/segment/vertical Provide thought leadership to internal Red Hat teams in order to advance the training portfolio of offerings and strategy. Promote and sell training solutions and services to the Partners using all available promos, specials, and bundles to achieve the highest possible revenue and bookings Identify, define, develop, and implement corporate training plans for strategic enterprise accounts within the region Identify and generate new training business opportunities and upsell to existing customers Support existing and new IT transformation projects within the local accounts Support and Coach the local Sales, pre-sales, channel Teams and partners in relation to the training offering and processes Identify subscription opportunities that don't include training and attempt to add training offerings to them Develop and refine the training selling best practices Actively work on RFIs/RFPs to include Training and Certifications related offerings Work with the local services team to align the GLS offering with the services solutions What Will You Bring: 5 years of sales / business management experience with a proven record of achievement. Strong in-person customer-facing skills Proven ability to work with various sales teams (internal and external) championing Red Hat training and certification as well as working autonomously to drive growth in accounts Experience with SFDC or equivalent CRM system. Strong Experience with Office Suites (MS Office, Google G-Suite, LibreOffice or alternatives) Understanding of learning management systems (LMS) Understanding of the complete sales cycle management from prospecting to closing Strong customer interaction skills. Resilience in dealing with transactional administrative work associated with the sale through current training sales systems. Willingness to travel as required for sales About Red Hat Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spre ... (truncated, view full listing at source)