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About this role
Build Relationships. Solve Business Problems. Win New Clients.
Machado Consulting is seeking a Technology Solutions Executive to develop new client
relationships and drive growth for our IT consulting and managed technology services
business.
This is a full-cycle, consultative B2B sales role for someone who enjoys creating new
opportunities, engaging business leaders, uncovering meaningful business and technology
challenges, and guiding prospective clients through the decision-making process.
You do need to be curious, comfortable talking with executives, and capable of working
alongside technical experts to translate technology challenges into business value.
What You’ll Do
- Identify, prospect, and develop new business opportunities within Machado’s
target market.
- Generate your own opportunities while also developing leads and appointments
created through Machado’s inside sales, referral, marketing, and other channels.
- Lead consultative discovery conversations to understand a prospect’s business
objectives, current IT environment, operational challenges, cybersecurity concerns,
risks, and desired outcomes.
- Ask thoughtful questions that uncover not only technical needs, but the business
impact and motivation for change.
- Coordinate with Machado’s engineering and technical resources to assess client
needs and develop appropriate recommendations.
- Present Machado’s recommendations and Solutions Summary to prospective
clients and their decision-making teams.
- Navigate pricing, competition, decision processes, negotiation, and contracting
through signed agreement.
- Maintain a primary focus on winning new recurring-revenue clients; long-term
account management and renewals transition to Machado’s vCIO team after the
initial post-sale period.
- Maintain an active, healthy pipeline and consistently move qualified opportunities
forward by securing meaningful buyer commitments and
next steps
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- Maintain accurate opportunity, forecast, and next-step information in HubSpot.
What Success Looks Like
You’ll be successful in this role by consistently creating qualified new-business
opportunities, building and maintaining sufficient pipeline, advancing opportunities
through Machado’s defined sales process, and converting prospective clients into long
term Machado relationships. For a fully productive TSE, the current performance model is
built around approximately 12 new Closed-Won clients per year, or about 3 per quarter.
Success also means knowing your opportunities. You’ll be expected to understand the
buyer’s business drivers, decision process, key stakeholders, timing, budget, competitive
environment, and
next steps
, and maintain the CRM discipline necessary to support
accurate forecasting and effective opportunity management.
What We’re Looking For
- 3-5 years of successful B2B sales or business development experience.
- Demonstrated ability to prospect and create new-logo opportunities.
- Experience managing a multi-step consultative sales process from initial outreach
through close.
- Strong discovery, listening, questioning, and presentation skills.
- Confidence engaging business owners, executives, and senior decision makers.
- Strong personal accountability, organization, follow-up, and pipeline-management
discipline.
- Experience working with a CRM; HubSpot experience is a plus.
- A collaborative, team approach and comfort working alongside technical experts.
- Experience selling IT services, managed services, cybersecurity, cloud,
infrastructure, professional services, or another complex B2B service is a plus.
Compensation & Work Environment
- Base Salary: $60,000 - $70,000
- On-Target Earnings (OTE): Approximately $140,000 at target performance
- Target variable compensation of approximately $70,000 at target performance
- Variable compensation is based primarily on new Monthly Recurring Revenue
(MRR), with higher commission opportunity for larger new-client MRR.
- Full-time position
- Hybrid work environment with in-person collaboration in Worcester,
Massachusetts
- Professional growth and development opportunities
About Machado Consulting
Machado Consulting provides IT consulting and managed technology solutions designed
around the unique needs and challenges of its clients. As a service-disabled veteran
owned small business, we bring a strong commitment to integrity, service, collaboration,
and client success.
If you’re a B2B salesperson who enjoys opening doors, asking great questions, solving
meaningful business problems, and earning the opportunity to become a trusted advisor
to your clients, we’d like to hear from you.