Account Representative

Career Area: Sales

Occupation Group: Client Support and Sales

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Account Representative earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $42,503

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $44,183

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Manages existing customer accounts to ensure sales retention and growth. Develops and maintains communication with clients, promotes sales and services, and works to resolve problems. Accounts may be for product sales, advertising or marketing services or financial services such as banking.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Account Representative is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft.
• Detail-Oriented: A detail oriented person is someone who pays attention to the details and can make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects, and that does this in a second nature type of way.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Customer Service: Working experience with the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase.
• Sales: Experience selling products or services to consumers.
• Customer Contact: Experience working with business processes and technologies that are designed to engage customers and facilitate communication by a variety of channels.
• Customer Accounts: Working experience with Customer Accounts, which often include accounting and marketing information for individual customers or business clients in a Customer Relationship Management system.
• Account Management: Account management is the management of sales and relationships with particular customers of a company.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Account Representative that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Prospective Clients: Working with Prospective Clients, which are indivuals who are not yet customers, but who have the potential of becoming one.
• Account Closing: Closing an account means that the balance of a temporary account is transferred to a permanent account
• Invoicing: An invoice, bill or tab is a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer, relating to a sale transaction and indicating the products, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services the seller had provided the buyer.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Positive Disposition: Optimism is a mental attitudea happy belief that the outcome of some specific endeavor, or outcomes in general, will be good.
• New Business Development: New business development concerns all the activities involved in realizing new business opportunities, including product or service design, business model design, and marketing.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Account Representative
• Account Coordinator
• Account Specialist
• Customer Account Representative
• Account Representative - Agent Team Member

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• Account Manager