Account Associate, Network Growth - Southern Europe

Company Description

Work smart, have fun and make an impact!

EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings. Our solutions are backed by an international team of experts and powerful technology. We analyze data and build sustainability scorecards that give companies actionable insights into their environmental, social and ethical risks.

Why apply to EcoVadis? Be a part of the global sustainability change in business. Grow your career. Work with extraordinary people. Feel valued for your contribution.

Learn more about our team and culture on EcoVadis careers page. If you have questions about the company or open roles you can chat with an insider.

Job Description

Your responsibility would be to ensure the acquisition of  new French and Southern Europe suppliers in order to  grow the EV network of assessed companies, boost response rates, and drive value throughout the EcoVadis onboarding experience.

You are a trusted advisor and can influence everything the customer touches in their first (and future) experience with us. This position interacts with all EcoVadis customers (buyers & suppliers) as well as multiple business units internally to provide high touch service that respects the relationship of the customers to EcoVadis and is a true EcoVadis ambassador.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with customers via phone, email, tickets, webinars, etc to accompany them during the onboarding process, solve their queries  and increase response rates for the French markets and ultimately convince them to adopt our EV solution
• Identify and target “high value” customers (i.e outreach with  customized approach) and take appropriate steps to engage them successfully by using Sales tactics
• Manage, monitor and drive your portfolio to maximize conversion
• Be proactive to nurture and build your pipeline, re-engage customers and maximize inflow
• Be autonomous to manage all your tasks efficiently, display commercial awareness to identify proactively business opportunities
• Identify risks to the customers successful completion of the EcoVadis evaluation process and actively work to mitigate issues before they happen; Become a CSR expert to overcome objections
• Capture and record internal and customer-sourced insights, then proactively report and contribute as necessary with the Team Leader, Management and other EcoVadis BU’s (Sales, Customer Success, etc) to bridge gaps that may exist between customer expectations & participation
• Be accountable to drive a set of KPIs (Conversion rate, Quality score, etc).
• Additional responsibilities related to the function may be required

Qualifications

• Passion for excellent customer service 

• Comfortable dealing with unhappy customers

• Experience in sales or upselling/inside sales preferred - comfortable with proactive outreach to EcoVadis network members

• Ability to interpret data to identify actions

• Fluent in French & English. Other languages such as Portuguese are a strong plus

• Digital marketing experience a plus 

• Comfortable presenting to large groups 

• Team player

• 2+ years experience in a customer facing role

• Autonomous and proactive

• Experience with Salesforce or CRM software preferred 

• Comfortable working in a fast paced, high-growth environment

• Enthusiasm and motivation to improve customer experience

• Proactive in suggesting, designing and implementing ideas and improvements 

Additional Information

Our growing team in Spain is full of talented professionals from various fields who all share a desire to make sustainability real.

We offer competitive salaries and support personal growth from day one.

This includes extensive onboarding, teammates' support and a brand new e-learning platform bursting with courses and modules. So you can learn new skills and fine-tune old ones! In return for your expertise and energy, we offer:

Working organization benefits:

• Casual and very friendly work environment Hybrid work organization (from the office or from home)
• Flexible working hours
• Home office allowance program IT equipment allowance
• Working from anywhere policy (3 months per year)
• Opportunity to work in a truly international atmosphere

Compensation benefits:

• Base salary + variable compensation plan
• GRSP and TF