I started working for a company 3 months ago. I quit my last sales job because I hated selling and it was draining me mentally. I started looking into account management as a lot of those skills translate over. Well I interviewed for this company and I was adamant I did not want to sell into existing or new accounts and they were completely cool with that since they have a very strong customer base and have phased out traditional sales. I got the job and my role consists of creating work orders, visiting customers for pickups/drop offs, addressing issues, answering calls, etc.
Now the Senior Account Manager (who has been here 6 years and is paid much more than me) and myself are tasked with a “July challenge” in which we each take 3 accounts and do what we can to sell other services and grow the accounts (while still doing my main job/daily responsibilities).
Now I understand as an account manager I am customer facing and growing accounts will ALWAYS benefit the company in terms of profit. I am just confused as to why after 3 months they are now looking for me to “do whatever I can” to sell into these accounts (emails, lunch and learn, cold call different contacts to solicit new business, etc) when this wasn't discussed about previously at all.
And it does irk me that the Senior Account Manager has the same task as me while I get paid much less.
How should I go about with this situation? Do I have a case to push back or should I just suck it up and do what I can to sell into these accounts?