About the job

We are looking for a purpose-driven Account Manager who can hit the ground running and is highly motivated to make a positive impact in the commercial real estate industry. This person will manage and grow key commercial relationships in a diverse stakeholder landscape combining strong commercial instincts with structured account management and a passion for helping our customers win.

As Account Manager at Next Sense you will:

• Manage some of the most exciting companies of the industry (ING Vastint EDGE Merlin Schroders a.o. and/or leading global tech luxury or food delivery companies);

• Work closely with senior commercial and technical stakeholders (including the CEO and management team);

• Get lots of responsibility and freedom trusting you take ownership and start adding value from day one.

Key Responsibilities

• Effectively manage and grow a portfolio of key clients. Be the champion of your accounts and represent them and their needs internally making sure they stay happy and want to expand with us.

• Continuously show our customers the added value we bring and translate this into understandable business cases to trigger expansion opportunities.

• Navigate complex stakeholder environments and decision-making structures.

• Develop negotiation strategies for clients and oversee the negotiation process and contract discussions to secure profitable and sustainable contracts.

• Continuously identify and qualify upsell and expansion opportunities within your portfolio of accounts.

• Identify and document customer needs and pains and use customer feedback to generate ideas about new features or products.

• Act as a trusted commercial partner to clients balancing relationship and operational work with a focus on sustainable commercial outcomes.

• Contribute to the professionalization and scaling of the commercial organization by initiating process improvements to scale Next Sense.

• Work closely with Marketing and Data & AI teams to ensure brand consistency and market penetration.

About you

• 35 years experience in commercial real estate (asset-related commercial roles leasing advisory proptech account management customer success etc.).

• Strong understanding of multi-stakeholder CRE environment.

• Languages: Dutch (native or fluent) English (fluent) German (professional working proficiency).

• Proven commercial track record (revenue responsibility deals closed account growth).

• Tech-savvy and comfortable working with data tools AI and digital products.

• Proactive ambitious structured and self-driven.

• Eager to learn and grow in a high-performance and dynamic environment.

• Strong communication and presentation skills ability to represent Next Sense internally as well as externally.

• Passionate to make a positive contribution to the Commercial Real Estate industry.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience in proptech or tech-enabled environments

• Experience working with enterprise or institutional real estate clients

• Background in scale-up or fast-growing organizations

Compensation & Benefits

• Bonus up to 20% of annual salary on top of a suitable and competitive salary.

• A one-year contract with the intention to extend (as this is a permanent position).

• Holiday pay (8% off the gross salary).

• 27 vacation days per calendar year.

• Remote work: opportunity to work abroad several weeks per year.

• Personal development: an individual training budget up to 1.000 yearly and 5 paid personal growth days a year to spend how you see fit.

• Wellbeing: We offer healthy lunches snacks and drinks at the office. There is a run club and we often have employee organised after-work activities.

• You will receive a company laptop and a monthly allowance of 25 to cover phone costs.

• Travel allowance (based on actual costs / kms).

  Please note that this offer is based on full-time (40 hours) employment.

Apply for the job

Do you want to join our team as our new Account Manager - Commercial Real Estate Then wed love to hear about you!