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We’re looking for a Senior Enterprise Account Manager to own the relationship for a portfolio of Hootsuite’s large, strategic, Enterprise customers. In this role, you’ll build, cultivate, and maintain influential relationships with your customers by leveraging your experience and demonstrating expert-level competency in Hootsuite's products, industry trends and best practices. You will collaborate with management and other stakeholders in driving renewal and expansion strategies and ensure a proactive and seamless approach to the renewal and expansion process for our customers.
Job Responsibility:
Build and nurture influential relationships with strategic customers for a book of business, anticipate questions and provide relevant insights and proactively reach out to improve adoption and give recommendations on tactics to enhance social presence/ social listening for our customers
Proactively lead the post-sale relationship, including multithreaded customer engagements and leading negotiations to drive successful renewal and expansion outcomes
In collaboration with the manager, develop and utilize creative and strategic thinking in order to resolve complex issues and identify win-win renewal outcomes
Provide recommendations to improve our operational processes through on-the-job learning
Develop and maintain rolling forecasts including monitoring account data health and anticipating risks and/or objections
working proactively with the manager and other stakeholder groups to mitigate risk and develop renewal strategies
recording calls and ensuring our internal customer database is up to date with robust details to further support forecast accuracy
Act as a trusted advisor throughout the customer lifecycle, building multi-threaded relationships, and leveraging your in-depth knowledge of product fit while tailoring the renewal strategy to meet customers’ unique needs
Identify and independently pursue account upsell and cross-sell opportunities throughout the customer relationship
Evaluate customer needs and advocate internally as the voice of our clients on product strategy, feature development, and pricing decisions
Identify product and process gaps and issues and suggest potential solutions
Conduct Strategic Business Reviews (SBR) on a regular basis to discuss accomplishments, opportunities, account growth and to identify areas of improvement
Leverage deep understanding of contract terms and processes in order to positively influence the renewal process and ensure a seamless customer experience
Provide regular updates to leadership on weekly forecast numbers and trends
Log feature requests and update customer account notes in Salesforce. Identify and escalate potential account risks, and support the team with SFDC hygiene
Collaborate with Professional Services where applicable
Perform other related duties as assigned
Requirements:
5-7 years of account management and sales experience, preferably in the technology (SaaS) industry
Proven success managing an enterprise customer portfolio
demonstrated ability to manage a high volume of opportunities while leveraging data-driven insights within the customer journey and sales process
Proven record of consistent quota attainment or portfolio management
experience developing account plans with a mix of tactics
Experience using sales tools such as SFDC, Gong, Sales Navigator, and 6Sense Gainsight
Belief in ValueSelling, with a strong sense of what customers value and how to challenge them to develop a deeper understanding of how Hootsuite delivers impact and ROI
Proven success negotiating and building consensus with multiple stakeholders within complex B2B environments
Familiarity with SaaS contracts, contract terms and experience working with legal and procurement teams
Accountability: holds self and others accountable to meet commitments
Commitment to Results: consistently achieves results, demonstrating high performance, and challenging self and others to deliver results
Influence: Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment and mobilizing people to take action
Negotiation: successfully obtains commitment to a solution or idea, while maintaining integrity and relationships
Perseverance: pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish—doesn’t give up
Problem-Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems. Looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems
Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects
Nice to have:
Solution seeker
Lifelong learner
Resilient adapter
Intentional collaborator
Critical challenger
Active communicator
Integrated thinker
Accountable owner
Bar-raiser
What we offer:
Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, life/disability insurances
Employee and Family Assistance Program
Group RRSP plan with a company match of up to 4% of base salary (Canada)
401k Plan with a company match (up to 4% of base salary) (US)
Global Parental Leave: 26 weeks of full and partially paid leave for permanent employees after 12 months