Account Manager

Our client israpidly expanding globally and theyare looking for a talented and established Account Manager to join their global sales team. They area leading provider of cloud communications solutions.

The Account Manager serves as the single point of contact for all customer enquiries across their key accounts. The Account Manager will find opportunities to increase sales and develop upsell opportunities by understanding theirproducts and future roadmap.

Location...

This role is based in their head office in Bracknell Berkshire.

This is an officebased vacancy and as such they expect all applicants to be willing to commute to our offices a minimum of 34 days per week as per their hybrid working policy.

Key responsibilities of the role...

Account planning

• Be responsible for all customer account management matters.
• Build and maintain relationships with your accounts stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Forecast and track key account sales metrics for business pipeline opportunities.
• Regularly determine upsell and sales opportunities through white space analysis.
• Run quarterly business reviews with key accounts.
• Track and manage your accounts using Content Gurus CRM tool.
• Create reports on account status including customer sentiment in consult build and run phases.

Customer relationships & satisfaction

• Build and maintain relationships with your accounts stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Work with key customers to understand their industry value drivers and business processes.
• Work closely with the Customer Success team to identify opportunities where we can provide additional value for customers in sharing and leveraging CX deployment and UX best practice.
• Conduct a regular customer meeting cadence weekly monthly quarterly.
• Manage a senior contact strategy of multilevel engagement within the account base.
• Produce and execute an Account Development Plan.
• Collaborate with wider Content Guru teams and departments to support your customer in all Content Guru matters including escalations.

Driving opportunities and revenue

• Manage all aspects of revenue including in year revenue annual recurring revenue and renewal activity.
• Consistently meet and exceed upsell targets to increase revenue.
• Contribute to Sector development plans identifying new revenue opportunities within your Sector and for the wider business unit.
• Promote new products and services to key accounts to generate and increase revenue.
• Achieve a minimum number of 5 star G2 and Gartner Peer insight reviews.
• Develop a portfolio of referrals through key accounts and generate new business leads.

Product and sales knowledge

• Maintain a good working knowledge and understanding of Content Gurus products and services.
• Proactively identify and share product updates with customers to increase revenue.
• Actively seek insight during all customer interactions enabling us to enhance our understanding of the customer sector or challenges sharing this with key internal stakeholders.
• Maintain awareness of market developments relating to the industry and competitive landscape.

About you...

• Bachelors degree in a relevant subject.
• Good experience of enterprise account management typically of at least 3 years.
• Experience in the SaaS industry specifically CCaaS is desirable.
• Experience of using a CRM or similar tool.
• Good interpersonal skills including effective influencing and negotiating stakeholders at all levels.
• Good communication including presentation skills and being able to adapt style to suit the audience.
• Proven work experience as an Account Manager Account Executive or similar title.