Account & Relationship Manager
Wolters Kluwer, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Account & Relationship Executive
Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information services that combines deep domain knowledge with specialized technology. Our portfolio offers software tools coupled with content and services that customers need to make decisions with confidence. Every day, our customers make critical decisions to help save lives, improve the way we do business, build better judicial and regulatory systems. We help them get it right. The Account & Relationship Manager role offers growth potential opportunities, professional development, an engaging team environment, the ability to work a hybrid schedule (in-office 2-days a week), and amazing benefits. The Account & Relationship Executive is a quota-carrying team member responsible for building and maintaining effective long-term relationships with customers across industries to create demand for our products and services. The Senior Account & Relationship Executive is accountable to achieve their quota for the assigned book of business through directly selling products in the customers' existing product lines. This includes driving transactional adoption, pursuing and driving renewal transactions, and pursuing up-sell opportunities. The Account & Relationship Executive is responsible for leveraging data to understand customer usage patterns and identifying opportunities to improve adoption, pursue a renewal, pursue incremental revenue (up-sell) within the customer's existing products, or identify potential leads for an Account Executive to pursue a cross-sell opportunity. The Senior Account & Relationship Executive will conduct quarterly business reviews with customers to understand existing product usage, advise on best practice use cases and behaviors, and educate on optimal use of offerings to maximize value and increase revenue spend. Key tasks include researching and gathering information on current customers and their needs, monitoring and interpreting product usage data for an assigned book of accounts to identify opportunities to improve adoption, pursue renewal opportunities, up-sell within existing products, or identify opportunities for a Sales Rep to cross-sell. The Account & Relationship Executive develops customer relationships for an assigned book of accounts with primary focus on improving product use/adoption, executing renewals, up-selling business and direct sales within existing product lines. They adhere to defined onboarding and training processes to effectively promote customer adoption of CS offerings and adhere to defined sales methodology and sales processes to execute renewal and up-sell opportunities. They identify leads for cross-sell opportunities and share them with Sales Reps to pursue, directly sell products within the existing customer base, collaborate with Account Executive to complete annual account reviews with customers to facilitate customer retention, work with Account Executive to transition customers from contract-signing to post-sale support with a Customer Success Specialist, and for high strategic opportunities, work with Account Executive, Technical Sales, and Sales Support to pursue and close opportunities for Compliance Solutions products at customer accounts. They maintain a clean and accurate pipeline in CRM. Performance metrics include individual quota attainment; achievement of renewal target and up-sell targets, customer adoption target attainment: improvements in customer adoption of current portfolios (month over month or quarter over quarter), number of leads identified and communicated to Account Executive, customer satisfaction scores and retention rates, and completion of assigned product trainings and other required learnings for professional development. You're a great fit if you meet these requirements: Bachelor's Degree, the ability to work a hybrid schedule, going to an office location 2-days a week, and working an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday - Friday schedule, ET and CT preferred, 8 years of B2B commissioned sales or equivalent, experience in Account Management, Sales, Technology Training, or renewal sales, experience in the financial services, or lending compliance industries, data analysis skills and ability to derive insights that drive next steps or actions required, account management (general knowledge of customer's business, stakeholders, product portfolio), communicate effectively in both face-to-face and virtual selling environments, interpersonal skills, ability to build stakeholder relationships, team effectively with other internal teams including Sales, Sales Support stakeholders, stay organized and manage multiple priorities at once across multiple customer accounts, cross-sell, up-sell, or pursue renewal transactions with customers, professional demeanor in oral and written communications, passion and ability to learn new CS offerings quickly, self-motivated; proactive and perseverant mindset, general product and application knowledge. We are an incredibly supportive team that truly enjoys what we do and who we do it with. We play a key role within WK and assist in driving the daily success. If you have a passion for making a true difference within an organization, while working alongside a genuinely caring and supportive team, we highly encourage you to apply. #Bethedifference
Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information services that combines deep domain knowledge with specialized technology. Our portfolio offers software tools coupled with content and services that customers need to make decisions with confidence. Every day, our customers make critical decisions to help save lives, improve the way we do business, build better judicial and regulatory systems. We help them get it right. The Account & Relationship Manager role offers growth potential opportunities, professional development, an engaging team environment, the ability to work a hybrid schedule (in-office 2-days a week), and amazing benefits. The Account & Relationship Executive is a quota-carrying team member responsible for building and maintaining effective long-term relationships with customers across industries to create demand for our products and services. The Senior Account & Relationship Executive is accountable to achieve their quota for the assigned book of business through directly selling products in the customers' existing product lines. This includes driving transactional adoption, pursuing and driving renewal transactions, and pursuing up-sell opportunities. The Account & Relationship Executive is responsible for leveraging data to understand customer usage patterns and identifying opportunities to improve adoption, pursue a renewal, pursue incremental revenue (up-sell) within the customer's existing products, or identify potential leads for an Account Executive to pursue a cross-sell opportunity. The Senior Account & Relationship Executive will conduct quarterly business reviews with customers to understand existing product usage, advise on best practice use cases and behaviors, and educate on optimal use of offerings to maximize value and increase revenue spend. Key tasks include researching and gathering information on current customers and their needs, monitoring and interpreting product usage data for an assigned book of accounts to identify opportunities to improve adoption, pursue renewal opportunities, up-sell within existing products, or identify opportunities for a Sales Rep to cross-sell. The Account & Relationship Executive develops customer relationships for an assigned book of accounts with primary focus on improving product use/adoption, executing renewals, up-selling business and direct sales within existing product lines. They adhere to defined onboarding and training processes to effectively promote customer adoption of CS offerings and adhere to defined sales methodology and sales processes to execute renewal and up-sell opportunities. They identify leads for cross-sell opportunities and share them with Sales Reps to pursue, directly sell products within the existing customer base, collaborate with Account Executive to complete annual account reviews with customers to facilitate customer retention, work with Account Executive to transition customers from contract-signing to post-sale support with a Customer Success Specialist, and for high strategic opportunities, work with Account Executive, Technical Sales, and Sales Support to pursue and close opportunities for Compliance Solutions products at customer accounts. They maintain a clean and accurate pipeline in CRM. Performance metrics include individual quota attainment; achievement of renewal target and up-sell targets, customer adoption target attainment: improvements in customer adoption of current portfolios (month over month or quarter over quarter), number of leads identified and communicated to Account Executive, customer satisfaction scores and retention rates, and completion of assigned product trainings and other required learnings for professional development. You're a great fit if you meet these requirements: Bachelor's Degree, the ability to work a hybrid schedule, going to an office location 2-days a week, and working an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday - Friday schedule, ET and CT preferred, 8 years of B2B commissioned sales or equivalent, experience in Account Management, Sales, Technology Training, or renewal sales, experience in the financial services, or lending compliance industries, data analysis skills and ability to derive insights that drive next steps or actions required, account management (general knowledge of customer's business, stakeholders, product portfolio), communicate effectively in both face-to-face and virtual selling environments, interpersonal skills, ability to build stakeholder relationships, team effectively with other internal teams including Sales, Sales Support stakeholders, stay organized and manage multiple priorities at once across multiple customer accounts, cross-sell, up-sell, or pursue renewal transactions with customers, professional demeanor in oral and written communications, passion and ability to learn new CS offerings quickly, self-motivated; proactive and perseverant mindset, general product and application knowledge. We are an incredibly supportive team that truly enjoys what we do and who we do it with. We play a key role within WK and assist in driving the daily success. If you have a passion for making a true difference within an organization, while working alongside a genuinely caring and supportive team, we highly encourage you to apply. #Bethedifference