Major Account Executive (Solution Sales) Zambia
2026-10-05T19:23:58+00:00
TransUnion
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FULL_TIME
Lusaka
Lusaka
10101
Zambia
Financial Services
Sales & Retail, Business Operations, Management
2026-10-16T17:00:00+00:00
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Team Overview
Focusing on the management and growth of TransUnion’s market share, you should be passionate about driving innovative sales approaches to identify and understand client’s business issues, focusing on opportunities to secure existing revenue and growth, through effective strategic solutions that drive incremental and new revenue opportunities. Through strategic planning, marketing, business development, thought leadership and ongoing management of relationships you will drive revenue through the deployment of innovative solutions. This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.
Role Overview And Core Responsibilities
How You’ll Contribute:
- Connects client accounts and new clients to TU’s solutions with real impact and measurable results by developing business value analysis (e.g. ROI) and providing strategic advice.
- Develops sales strategies to grow revenue from existing and new sales opportunities.
- Participates in and/or ensure quality in customer engagements with the most strategic customers and deliver increased customer satisfaction and better opportunities for TU.
- Responsible for achieving revenue quotas for large strategic, opportunity clients by hunting for new opportunities, client acquisitions, additional solution sales at enterprise or large sized clients.
- Develops three year strategic view of client base detailing transformational ideas.
- Facilitates ideation, white boarding sessions to optimize share shift opportunities.
- Understands competitor awareness to maximize penetration in markets held by the competition and foster partnerships with new and existing customers.
- Understands client’s financials to co-create effective strategies to identify opportunities.
- Uses prolonged silences and handles objections to seller advantage.
- Properly interprets verbal and physical cues to gauge customer reaction and interest.
- Diagnoses when customer is unclear and ensures comprehension.
- Establishes deep and effective relationships with all key clients due to credible and influential network.
- Consistently interacts in a way that promotes openness and trust.
- Keeps commitments to agreed upon actions.
- Acts consistently with the organizations values and ensures that words and actions are consistent.
- Owns the C-Suite relationship.
- Understands TU workflow and value chain, understand internal client delivery processes in order to ensure C-Suite satisfaction.
- Creates opportunities to provide a unique or contrarian perspective during commercial conversations.
- Works with clients to understand CBI’s and positions TU as a partner to jointly solve problems.
- Engages with clients in a manner that makes them feel they own the solution.
- Utilizes probing and questioning techniques to understand client context, client’s strategic drivers and gaps to fix problems.
- Develops and implements solutions to assist clients.
- Has diverse commercial and deal structuring acumen.
- Develops sales tactic plans that caters for what is the action item and what are the results by when.
- Reviews client industry standards, follow industry trends.
- Management of pipeline opportunities to engage directly with partners and product management teams to close opportunities.
- Meets or exceeds monthly and yearly Sales Revenue and Gross Profit target goals.
- Maintains all customer records in Salesforce CRM database.
- Develops and manages a 30 day forecast and 60-90-120 day pipeline within CRM.
- Provides weekly and monthly forecasts to management.
- Participates in marketing events such as seminars, trade shows, and webinar marketing events.
- Conducts early customer engagement and registering of opportunities with key vendor partners early in the sales cycle to get special pricing for developing the opportunity.
Required Knowledge And Experiences
What You’ll Bring:
- Degree or Diploma with five to seven years of advanced consultative solution-selling experience.
- Proven history of meeting/exceeding yearly quotas.
- Demonstrated sales experience in selling data driven solutions.
- Must have the ability to present to “C” level audience.
- Focused, ambitious self-starter who exhibits attention to detail with excellent organizational skills.
- Eagerness to learn complex enterprise software and hardware solutions to enable successful development of sales opportunities.
- A team player capable of working within a collaborative environment and making contributions when appropriate.
- Experience in structuring large business deals with knowledge of different commercial constructs and how these can be used.
- Demonstrate outstanding analytical and problem solving skills, and strong management consulting skills to influence thinking or gain acceptance of multiple customer constituencies.
- Good negotiation skills
- Strategic Thinker
- Problem Solver
- Deep Industry knowledge /case studies and trend
- Influential network
- Hunter Skill Set
- Connects client accounts and new clients to TU’s solutions with real impact and measurable results by developing business value analysis (e.g. ROI) and providing strategic advice.
- Develops sales strategies to grow revenue from existing and new sales opportunities.
- Participates in and/or ensure quality in customer engagements with the most strategic customers and deliver increased customer satisfaction and better opportunities for TU.
- Responsible for achieving revenue quotas for large strategic, opportunity clients by hunting for new opportunities, client acquisitions, additional solution sales at enterprise or large sized clients.
- Develops three year strategic view of client base detailing transformational ideas.
- Facilitates ideation, white boarding sessions to optimize share shift opportunities.
- Understands competitor awareness to maximize penetration in markets held by the competition and foster partnerships with new and existing customers.
- Understands client’s financials to co-create effective strategies to identify opportunities.
- Uses prolonged silences and handles objections to seller advantage.
- Properly interprets verbal and physical cues to gauge customer reaction and interest.
- Diagnoses when customer is unclear and ensures comprehension.
- Establishes deep and effective relationships with all key clients due to credible and influential network.
- Consistently interacts in a way that promotes openness and trust.
- Keeps commitments to agreed upon actions.
- Acts consistently with the organizations values and ensures that words and actions are consistent.
- Owns the C-Suite relationship.
- Understands TU workflow and value chain, understand internal client delivery processes in order to ensure C-Suite satisfaction.
- Creates opportunities to provide a unique or contrarian perspective during commercial conversations.
- Works with clients to understand CBI’s and positions TU as a partner to jointly solve problems.
- Engages with clients in a manner that makes them feel they own the solution.
- Utilizes probing and questioning techniques to understand client context, client’s strategic drivers and gaps to fix problems.
- Develops and implements solutions to assist clients.
- Has diverse commercial and deal structuring acumen.
- Develops sales tactic plans that caters for what is the action item and what are the results by when.
- Reviews client industry standards, follow industry trends.
- Management of pipeline opportunities to engage directly with partners and product management teams to close opportunities.
- Meets or exceeds monthly and yearly Sales Revenue and Gross Profit target goals.
- Maintains all customer records in Salesforce CRM database.
- Develops and manages a 30 day forecast and 60-90-120 day pipeline within CRM.
- Provides weekly and monthly forecasts to management.
- Participates in marketing events such as seminars, trade shows, and webinar marketing events.
- Conducts early customer engagement and registering of opportunities with key vendor partners early in the sales cycle to get special pricing for developing the opportunity.
- Advanced consultative solution-selling
- Sales strategy development
- Customer engagement
- Revenue quota achievement
- Strategic planning
- Business development
- Relationship management
- Competitor awareness
- Financial analysis
- Objection handling
- Interpreting verbal and physical cues
- Ensuring comprehension
- Building effective relationships
- Promoting openness and trust
- Commitment keeping
- Adherence to organizational values
- C-Suite relationship management
- Understanding of TU workflow and value chain
- Client delivery process understanding
- Providing unique or contrarian perspectives
- Problem-solving with clients
- Solution development and implementation
- Commercial and deal structuring acumen
- Sales tactic planning
- Industry trend analysis
- Pipeline management
- Sales Revenue and Gross Profit target achievement
- CRM database maintenance (Salesforce)
- Sales forecasting
- Marketing event participation
- Early customer engagement
- Opportunity registration with vendors
- Negotiation skills
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Management consulting skills
- Strategic thinking
- Influential networking
- Hunter skill set
- Degree or Diploma
- Five to seven years of advanced consultative solution-selling experience
- Proven history of meeting/exceeding yearly quotas
- Demonstrated sales experience in selling data driven solutions
- Ability to present to “C” level audience
- Focused, ambitious self-starter
- Attention to detail
- Excellent organizational skills
- Eagerness to learn complex enterprise software and hardware solutions
- Team player
- Experience in structuring large business deals
- Knowledge of different commercial constructs
- Outstanding analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong management consulting skills
- Good negotiation skills
- Strategic thinker
- Problem solver
- Deep industry knowledge /case studies and trend
- Influential network
- Hunter skill set
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Vacancy title:
Major Account Executive (Solution Sales) Zambia
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Financial Services, Category: Sales & Retail, Business Operations, Management]
Jobs at:
TransUnion
Deadline of this Job:
Friday, October 16 2026
Duty Station:
Lusaka | Lusaka
Summary
Date Posted: Monday, October 5 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
Team Overview
Focusing on the management and growth of TransUnion’s market share, you should be passionate about driving innovative sales approaches to identify and understand client’s business issues, focusing on opportunities to secure existing revenue and growth, through effective strategic solutions that drive incremental and new revenue opportunities. Through strategic planning, marketing, business development, thought leadership and ongoing management of relationships you will drive revenue through the deployment of innovative solutions. This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.
Role Overview And Core Responsibilities
How You’ll Contribute:
- Connects client accounts and new clients to TU’s solutions with real impact and measurable results by developing business value analysis (e.g. ROI) and providing strategic advice.
- Develops sales strategies to grow revenue from existing and new sales opportunities.
- Participates in and/or ensure quality in customer engagements with the most strategic customers and deliver increased customer satisfaction and better opportunities for TU.
- Responsible for achieving revenue quotas for large strategic, opportunity clients by hunting for new opportunities, client acquisitions, additional solution sales at enterprise or large sized clients.
- Develops three year strategic view of client base detailing transformational ideas.
- Facilitates ideation, white boarding sessions to optimize share shift opportunities.
- Understands competitor awareness to maximize penetration in markets held by the competition and foster partnerships with new and existing customers.
- Understands client’s financials to co-create effective strategies to identify opportunities.
- Uses prolonged silences and handles objections to seller advantage.
- Properly interprets verbal and physical cues to gauge customer reaction and interest.
- Diagnoses when customer is unclear and ensures comprehension.
- Establishes deep and effective relationships with all key clients due to credible and influential network.
- Consistently interacts in a way that promotes openness and trust.
- Keeps commitments to agreed upon actions.
- Acts consistently with the organizations values and ensures that words and actions are consistent.
- Owns the C-Suite relationship.
- Understands TU workflow and value chain, understand internal client delivery processes in order to ensure C-Suite satisfaction.
- Creates opportunities to provide a unique or contrarian perspective during commercial conversations.
- Works with clients to understand CBI’s and positions TU as a partner to jointly solve problems.
- Engages with clients in a manner that makes them feel they own the solution.
- Utilizes probing and questioning techniques to understand client context, client’s strategic drivers and gaps to fix problems.
- Develops and implements solutions to assist clients.
- Has diverse commercial and deal structuring acumen.
- Develops sales tactic plans that caters for what is the action item and what are the results by when.
- Reviews client industry standards, follow industry trends.
- Management of pipeline opportunities to engage directly with partners and product management teams to close opportunities.
- Meets or exceeds monthly and yearly Sales Revenue and Gross Profit target goals.
- Maintains all customer records in Salesforce CRM database.
- Develops and manages a 30 day forecast and 60-90-120 day pipeline within CRM.
- Provides weekly and monthly forecasts to management.
- Participates in marketing events such as seminars, trade shows, and webinar marketing events.
- Conducts early customer engagement and registering of opportunities with key vendor partners early in the sales cycle to get special pricing for developing the opportunity.
Required Knowledge And Experiences
What You’ll Bring:
- Degree or Diploma with five to seven years of advanced consultative solution-selling experience.
- Proven history of meeting/exceeding yearly quotas.
- Demonstrated sales experience in selling data driven solutions.
- Must have the ability to present to “C” level audience.
- Focused, ambitious self-starter who exhibits attention to detail with excellent organizational skills.
- Eagerness to learn complex enterprise software and hardware solutions to enable successful development of sales opportunities.
- A team player capable of working within a collaborative environment and making contributions when appropriate.
- Experience in structuring large business deals with knowledge of different commercial constructs and how these can be used.
- Demonstrate outstanding analytical and problem solving skills, and strong management consulting skills to influence thinking or gain acceptance of multiple customer constituencies.
- Good negotiation skills
- Strategic Thinker
- Problem Solver
- Deep Industry knowledge /case studies and trend
- Influential network
- Hunter Skill Set
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Experience in Months: 60
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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