Account Manager, Commercial
Outreach.ioAbout the role
About the Role
The primary purpose of the Account Manager is to retain current customers and identify opportunities to grow or expand their presence and usage across the platform. This role is responsible for driving value and adoption within an assigned territory of customers, primarily in our Commercial segment. You are responsible for managing the relationship with current customers, including contract renewals, identifying expansion opportunities, and managing the sales cycle for those expansions. Additionally you are responsible for driving platform adoption, assessing overall health of a customer’s engagement with Outreach, and providing strategic insight and guidance to customers aligned with their goals. Your primary points of contact within existing customers will include both above the line contacts (CRO, COO, CEO, CFO, and CISO) as well as below the line contacts (System Administrators, GTM Leaders, Marketing/content, Revenue Operations, etc). Key performance indicators include, but are not limited to, customer retention and renewal targets, net revenue retention, expansion quota attainment, renewal forecast quality and accuracy, platform utilization and adoption, and customer sentiment. We expect you to act as trusted advisors to the Revenue Office for their customers and to provide guidance throughout the customer’s journey.
Your Daily Adventures Will Include:
- Manage a high volume of accounts with proactive engagement to drive customer value and adoption.
- Develop and build territory strategy plans using multiple data points from various sources to drive adoption, utilization, and customer sentiment.
- Manage the renewal, expansion, and cross-sell attachment of current Outreach customers at high rates to protect revenue retention.
- Build partnerships with your customers to realize value, adoption, and business process optimization of the Outreach platform.
- Apply successes, best practices, and learnings from the experiences of Outreach customers to apply those to consulting with other customers
- Partner with and influence key stakeholders on how best to achieve customer goals, removing roadblocks where necessary; this can range from product adoption, prioritization, or technical [handled directly or in partnership with internal teams]
- Apply basic technical proficiency to troubleshoot issues independently and collaborate with technical teams, as needed.
- Engage with operations teams and multi-thread within accounts to reach key decision makers.
- Support the onboarding process by coordinating internal resources and aligning with clients to ensure a seamless and high-quality implementation.
- Update and manage systems of record, including Outreach, Salesforce (SFDC), and other relevant tools, to ensure data accuracy and support effective client relationship management.
- Identify risks or barriers to client health, and provide targeted mitigation strategies to get the client “back to green."
- Forecast renewals and expansion pipeline with high level of accuracy using Outreach’s forecast methodology.
- Act as the primary point of contact/the face of Outreach for your customers. Assist them when navigating product training, strategic guidance, best practices in the platform, and selling expertise.
- Prioritize multiple projects at the same time, managing several internal / external stakeholders who have varying priorities ranging from business, technical, and organizational
- Stay abreast of sales and revenue trends to increase your credibility in the industry, e.g. going to industry events, subscribing to blogs/podcasts, reading books, researching case studies
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Our Vision of You:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or the equivalent work experience
- At least two years of either sales lifecycle management, account management, or customer success experience, preferably in a SaaS environment
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