The gist of this is the title, but some more background is below.
I am a pretty young guy who currently works as a Client Success Manager at a managed service provider. I also do account management. Been in this role for a couple years now and it is my main experience in the world of sales.
I like to think I am pretty good at what I do and see myself going down the path of sales deeper in the future, however my current experience is limited to this industry and the smb space.
I received a verbal offer, going to review the official offer tomorrow for an account executive position in what would be a foreign industry to me. It would be in freight, selling current & new customers on LTL (less than truckload) freight.
It sounds pretty straight forward, has a 6 month or so onboarding but I have a lot of concerns. Only expected to land a few sales a week, relatively small pipeline expectations and sounded like a fair amount of the team was hitting their numbers.
It is a significant salary increase, solid benefits, kind of mediocre commission but the experience would be awesome.
I am mainly seeking advice from those that have went this route? How is it? Is it a good start to take that next step? If I am not ready, is it career suicide to jump into an AE role without proper SDR experience?
Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.
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