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As a leading procurement services provider in hospitality, Avendra is expanding our Account Management Team. We are hiring a Customer Success Associate to support our small to mid-size clients in harnessing the purchasing power of Avendra. Reporting to our Customer Success Sr Manager, you will grow revenue in a geographic territory with assigned clients by making outbound phone calls, conducting virtual meetings with customers, collaborating with Marketing on outbound email campaigns and leveraging numerous supplier partner offerings to increase client participation and grow sales. The ideal candidate will provide solutions for a wide variety of procurement needs, prioritize multiple tasks and effectively manage key relationships, internally as well as with suppliers and clients. The selected candidate will have a tremendous opportunity to accelerate growth for the nation’s premier group purchasing organization (GPO). This is an exceptional opportunity to own high-impact objectives at a rapidly transforming company. Compensation for this role will be salary and commission based.
Job Responsibility:
Target, prospect and sell by building strong relationships, exploring needs and uncovering purchasing opportunities with customers and supplier partners in an assigned territory
Develop insights that provide opportunities to educate customers to achieve purchasing optimization, and the implementation of best practices and recommendations
Achieve established targets and goals
report business results
Create and manage a robust sales pipeline by leveraging internal reports, databases and tools
Following the company’s deployment of Salesforce, maximize Salesforce utilization
Demonstrate personal ownership of the customer relationship through consistent communications, account management, and business reviews
Connect assigned clients with key Avendra supplier partners to aid clients in their procurement needs
Facilitate client’s official connection with suppliers and resolve any client issues
Schedule and conduct meetings mostly via phone, video and email with assigned Avendra clients, colleagues and partners
There will be occasional in-person meetings with colleagues, supply partners and clients
Meet and exceed metrics and sales targets to grow revenue in an assigned territory by articulating the features and benefits of suppliers and programs
Conduct continuous research and possess an understanding of Avendra’s broad supply chain offering and your assigned territory and clients
Train customers on Avendra’s website, suppliers, programs, and reports
Share industry and market insights, and present insights and innovative ideas and approaches with leadership to continuously improve customer satisfaction and ensure successful retention of accounts
Utilize Avendra’s CRM systems (Salesforce) as well as other data tools to manage an opportunity pipeline
Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
Minimum two (2) years of sales or related customer success experience, demonstrating a record of progressively increasing client growth success and meeting or exceeding established sales and growth targets
Experience in building and maintaining strong professional relationships through excellent customer service and client relationship skills
Experience, intermediate level proficiency and demonstrated ability to learn use of the following: Salesforce, Microsoft Office and Teams, HubSpot and Avendra’s proprietary CRM system Pivotal
General business skills
Excellent organizational and time management skills with an ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization
Excellent oral and written communication and presentation ability that include well-honed listening skills
A 4-year college diploma in Business and/or Hospitality
Nice to have:
Preference is given to candidates that possess hospitality, lodging and foodservice industry experience
What we offer:
medical
dental
vision
work/life resources
retirement savings plans like 401(k)
paid days off such as parental leave and disability coverage