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The Strategic Account Manager – How do you Compensate This Critical Role?

OpenSymmetry

The Strategic Account Manager is included in this group and is amongst the most difficult roles to compensate in sales organizations. So, how do you compensate this key role? We completed a sales compensation plan audit for a telecommunications company last year. The organization broke my top rule to keep it simple.

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Why Automate Sales Compensation Management

OpenSymmetry

On November 19 th , 30 organisations gathered in London at the e-reward conference to discuss the benefits of compensation management software. ICM can encompass both internal sales force and external third party sales forces’ which are common in telecommunications and financial services. What is SPM? About the Author.

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What We’ve Learned Supporting Telecom Sales Teams

Janek Performance Group

In the 1990s, I started my sales career selling telecom for one of the largest privately held telecommunications companies in North America. Because in enterprise sales, 50 percent or more of our compensation comes at the end of the year. Today, telecom is an important client segment to Janek. “Nick, you don’t understand.

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The 5 Most Highly Paid Sales Jobs of 2017

Hubspot Sales

Telecommunications was the highest paid industry for sales engineers, with a median wage of $111,340. Here are the bureau's top five most highly compensated positions overall: Anesthesiologists - $443,859. However, the employment forecast for sales engineers is positive, with expected growth of 7% from 2014 to 2024. See a trend?

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Keep Your B2B Sales & Sanity Intact During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Sales Hacker

How do you compensate for the lack of B2B face-to-face meetings ? This new boom has expanded beyond business areas into Healthcare, Cybersecurity, Logistics, Telecommunication, etc. This is a lot to take in and adjust to. What to expect? Is there a future for your sales and company?

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Guest blog: 10 Success Factors for Quotas Part 2

OpenSymmetry

A telecommunications organization we worked with had updated and piloted its new quota process, and it worked perfectly.It At the top of the account pyramid, national account quotas may be more accurately based on the information and strategies developed in an account plan. Apply an appropriate approach for each type of segment or market.

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Being Sales-Centric

Pipeliner

Sales compensation is based on achieving annual results; the consistent winners get recognized by exotic travel reward events; the underachievers are generally are cast aside by the organization. A focus on achieving short-term results.