Key Account Manager – CX – ANZ Full Time

The Key Account Manager (KAM) will be accountable for delivering world-class account management and business direction to customers. Specifically, this position is responsible for building long-term relationships with existing customers by understanding their business goals, proposing enhancements to products and/or services, and leveraging appropriate company resources to address how clients can achieve better business outcomes by leveraging technology products.

The KAM is responsible for upselling, cross-selling, and consulting with clients, will bear a sales quota in addition to growing the revenue of an account base, including renewals. The KAM’s involvement with the client will be to encompass the lifecycle of the relationship – beginning with the initial implementation and carry through to building a long-term relationship. Client interaction will be done both over the phone/Teams and also face to face.

The KAM will be the business leader in an account and work in concert with our Technical Support team (primarily through Technical Account Managers, Technical Success Managers, and Technical Success Analysts. Together, these teams are responsible to ensure both customer longevity and systematic growth.

As a KAM, a typical day might include the following:

• Ensure revenue growth of assigned accounts.
• Achieve bookings quota through add-on sales to current customers
• This position will require travel of up to 40% of the time between customer meetings, quarterly business reviews, industry events, and sales kickoff
• Identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities within the customer base.
• Become intimately familiar with the assigned account base and become the trusted advisor to the customer for better business outcomes.
• Consult with the client regarding their contact center business, identifying areas in which they can use their existing products more effectively in coordination with best practices in the contact center industry.
• Maintain a working knowledge of competitive product lines, especially as it relates to technical strengths and weaknesses of the competitor’s products and what strategy should develop to counter.
• Maintain a working knowledge of all other products/services, competitive product lines, differentiators and industry trends through self-education and resources.
• Develop and present customized presentations to assigned clients that both quantify and qualify product/service usage, realized benefits, achievements, opportunities and next steps.
• Work directly with product management to deliver feedback from clients to best facilitate ideas and drive innovation for future product enhancement and development.
• Work with Implementation team to play a role in smooth customer implementations by providing on-site assistance as directed and provide appropriate feedback to the greater sales team post turn up.
• Measure success via tracking of client retention and revenue growth.
• This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and employees will also perform other reasonable related business duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required.

To Land This Gig You’ll Need:

• 4+ years applicable experience in the account management function in customer service, call/contact center and/or service delivery.
• Working technical knowledge of contact center.
• Demonstrated experience in a fast-paced environment and meeting customer time constraints.
• Demonstrated experience working independently.
• Competency negotiating and upselling products and services offerings
• Demonstrated sales proficiency, primarily to an installed base of customers

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