Account Manager, BRS Golf/ Golf Now

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

BRS Golf Ltd, a division of NBC Sports Next, is an innovative technology company that powers solutions for golfers and golf courses to better connect. At BRS Golf our course management software and services help our Golf Course partners increase their rounds and revenue and manage their business operations. GolfNow is the world’s largest online tee time marketplace, used by over 3.5 million golfers worldwide.

From our award-winning international HQ offices in Belfast, we are driving forward and reshaping an entire industry, building innovative new web based and mobile products, and assisting golf course operators to manage profitable and sustainable businesses.

We take pride in offering an exceptional team member experience with generous benefits and perks designed to offer financial security, support wellbeing and enhance work life balance.  Learn more about working with BRS Golf via www.brsgolf.com/web/careers.

This is a great opportunity to advance your career and be a part of an exciting business with plans for significant future growth.

Job Description

The Account Manager will play a crucial role in driving revenue growth, fostering long term businesss relationships and maintaining client satisfaction across a portfolio of our golf course partners.  Relationship management will be at the core of this role, managing key partner clients, growing the accounts through up-selling products, driving revenue and retaining courses through adoption of best practises and use of our products and services.

Key Responsibilities

The Account Manager will be a key member of the Belfast based Account Management Team that will build and contribute to business success by;

• Developing a well-rounded understanding of our Account Management philosophy, market and customer needs.
• Conduct regular check-ins and meetings with clients to review performance, gather feedback, and identify opportunities for growth.
• Developing advanced product and industry knowledge to be able to provide consultative advice and information to help our customers maximise use and adoption of our products and services, including upselling of new products and to secure and optimize tee time offerings to build attractive inventory for our platforms.
• Leveraging technical tools, platforms and quantitative data to inform proposals that ensure our clients derive maximum value from our services through establishing relationships, conducting account reviews and working closely with senior team members and management to understand and thereafter execute strategies to strengthen relationships and help golf course partners meet their success criteria.
• Manage relationships across assigned regions in the UK & Ireland, handling inbound cases while proactively engaging partners through outbound activity to ensure strong performance and customer satisfaction.
• Devoting proportionate time, effort and a high level of communication touch points with high value/ potential accounts (including onsite visits when appropriate). Acting as a positive ambassador for our business products and services.
• Having a firm understanding of dynamic pricing and its place within the golf industry. Educating and implementing successful dynamic pricing strategies with our golf course partners.
• Retaining clients and their long-term business through contract renewals and ensuring client satisfaction.
• Monitor account performance and identify opportunities for upselling or cross-selling additional products/services.
• Having the long-term success of our clients at the heart of all you do, ensuring these course partners are represented in a positive way on our platforms and within any communications.
• Being results focused in meeting and/or exceeding individual and department metrics and goals, as well as exercising accountability and a strong work ethic in managing a portfolio of clients to drive revenue and retention. To include the assignment of UK/ Ireland counties with higher value and revenue potential.
• Maintaining an accurate daily record of all activity using Salesforce.
• Engaging with colleagues locally and internationally to understand and support the growth of a positive company cul