ROLE PURPOSE

• This position manages and grows revenue and market share at highest value and most complex designated accounts to maximize customer satisfaction and achieve company's strategic objectives.
• Develops and maintains client relationships to ultimately drive revenue growth.
• Develops and executes account strategy collaborating with account team and/or other business units to deliver a comprehensive product offering to meet overall customer needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages, retains and grows revenue, responsible for sales and accountable for service performance (may include new sales and revenue quota attainment).
• Establishes strong, long-term customer relationships and cultivate new business opportunities.
• Continues to maintain relationships with key decision makers.
• Strategically develops and executes a growth-centric account plan and own overall strategy for growth and revenue as appropriate.
• Applies knowledge of business and its constituent workflows to conceive and position value-added solutions to promote sales and revenue growth.
• Collaborates with account team and/or other business units where required and has oversight of all account activities.
• Responsible for forecasting, keeps management in touch with accounts in a timely fashion, gathers intelligence on competitor activity, and gives feedback to other internal stakeholders.
• Acts as point of contact for the client, provides escalation path to and from Service and attends to customer issues promptly as appropriate.
• Tracks customer activity in internal systems in order to execute on account strategy and identify additional opportunities.
• May provide customer product training as necessary.
• Advances the sale, application and evolution of products within accounts.
• Maintains up to date product knowledge on all products and solutions.
• Accountable for individual expense budget management.
• Demonstrates skills in managing and handling sales across accounts.

SCOPE & IMPACT

• Drives overall customer satisfaction for assigned accounts.
• May be responsible for net sales and revenue for the highest value and most complex accounts.
• This is an individual contributor role and does not have people management responsibilities.
• Works under general supervision of manager.

TECHNICAL / PROFESSIONAL SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Strong understanding of customers and their business model and workflows.
• Strong product knowledge.
• Relationship building skills.
• Selling skills (identity, develop and articulate a complex proposition/consultative selling).
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to develop and execute a sales plan, ability to use a variety of technology with a high level of proficiency.
• Problem solving--ability to understand, articulate, structure and solve client needs.
• Presentation and communication skills: ability to deliver presentations and communicate at all levels within an organization.
• Ability to collaborate with account team.

Market data experience

Trading/er exp experience

RELATIONSHIPS: INTERNAL / EXTERNAL

• May include sales professionals, product specialists, trainers, consultants, marketing, senior leadership, etc.
• Key stakeholders within assigned accounts including executives and industry associations.

CERTIFICATIONS / EDUCATION
• University/college degree may be required, equivalent experience may be considered.

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