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WM

Senior Outside Sales Account Executive

WM

Senior Account Executive in hybrid role focusing on B2B sales and account management in Houston, TX. Seeking candidates for new business opportunities and customer retention strategies.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeHouston • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Senior Account Executives are responsible for maintaining and growing billable value in their assigned accounts; preventing customer account losses and growing billable value by selling permanent new waste streams, new services, and new products to current and prospective customers.
  • Initiate business to business sales relationships.
  • Responsible for prospecting and closing sales opportunities to achieve budgeted sales goals by developing and implementing sound selling strategies.
  • Manage prospects by developing sound prospect development plans and maintaining key information in the prospect database. Maintain sales pipeline (both in terms of quantity and quality) to achieve goals for new sales.
  • Minimize most revenue and accounts by maintaining SSDO relationship health standards and diffusing cancellation requests. Meet or exceed sales call activity goals for proactive account retention.
  • Increase revenue and profitability by executing sound plans on retention calls to improve the customers' service and/or profitability.
  • Establish and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.
  • Propose customer solutions that are compliant with appropriate local, state and federal regulations. Communicate to and work with the Area Sales Managers to resolve unique customer issues.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of customers' needs, pricing and competition; effectively communicate pricing and service strategies; proactively engage other WM business opportunities, referring internally as appropriate.
  • Acquire in depth industry and company knowledge in order to prepare complex proposals and make recommendations on equipment optimization and leasing options.
  • Maintain current knowledge of internal sale strategies and operational capabilities, and external market trends.
  • Work closely and effectively communicate with Plant Managers and Brokerage Account Managers to assist in upgrading materials to increase profitability and achieve plant goals.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's Degree (accredited) or in lieu of degree
  • High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and 4 years of relative work experience
  • 4 years of work experience in direct business-to-business sales, business-to-business cold calling, and phone based business-to-business prospecting resulting in successfully obtaining customer appointments

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Short and Long Term Disability
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
  • Company match on 401K (4.5% with NO vesting period)
  • Unlimited vacation time
  • Annual education assistance benefit

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Hard Skills & Tools
business-to-business salescold callingprospectingsales strategiescustomer solutionsproposal preparationequipment optimizationsales pipeline managementretention strategiesbudget management
Soft Skills
customer satisfactioncommunicationrelationship managementproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingnegotiationteam collaborationadaptabilityinterpersonal skillsorganizational skills
Certifications
Bachelor's DegreeHigh School DiplomaGED