Develop and implement account strategies and implementation plans for feature and nurture customers that further expand customer external labor programs and identify new business opportunities within assigned accounts. These plans should:
Increase spend under management
Ensure rapid adoption and enablement of solutions that drive value for the customer
Expand business process automation across the specific Line of business applications
Increase the customer’s usage aligned with their contracted cloud applications up to and beyond the entitlements that they have.
Complete Relationship Assessments, Outcome Success Plans, initiate tracking, and maintain associated tasks for each account in the portfolio.
Track SLA performance, usage and adoption metrics, and overall customer satisfaction
Meet or exceed account-specific revenue and profitability goals for account portfolio including but not limited to renewals, subscription software expansion, and network revenue growth.
Maintain a close working relationship with other regional business teams (such as SAP and Cloud LoB AEs, Services Account Managers, AGS support personnel, GADs, MPs and other customer facing personnel) in support of global customers and corporate functions necessary to support all assigned accounts.
Act as primary escalation point for cloud solutions for those accounts within their portfolio
Drive opportunity development (including growth and qualification of pipeline in conjunction with assigned Account Executives) and accurate forecasting of the renewal and network growth
Deal management and commercial negotiation of the entire opportunity (from opportunity to close) for renewals
Facilitate quarterly Account Reviews and monthly Relationship Reviews with customer and Account team members to confirm ongoing customer account goals and strengthen relationships
Manage new account assignment into portfolio
WORK EXPERIENCE:
5+ years of experience in the following areas:
Selling or delivering consulting services
Managing complex customer engagements
Working with cloud or SAS applications
Commercial experience including experience developing account management plans and contract negotiation
Line of Business specific experience – specific to the LoB that they are being primarily hired into. Examples include: Ariba, Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Management, Services Procurement, Supply chain, Finance and Procurement and eBusiness expertise
Customer relationship management, sales, sales force automation and sales team management expertise
Proficiency in SAP Commercial and Account Management Systems: CRM, Totango
Financial systems, financial planning and enterprise resource planning expertise
Complex Account Management
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:
Proficiency in Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook