Account Manager - Enterprise, Public Sector DACH

Overview

Working at Atlassian

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Atlassian is continuing to drive investments focused on developing our largest, most strategic customers. We partner with 82% of the Fortune 500 and work with teams at IBM, Tesla, Dish, Lufthansa and many more. Our Account Management team looks to deepen our relationships with our customers, explore how we solve their most complex challenges, and help them realize value across our solutions.

Our Account Management team owns retention and accelerates expansion, ultimately contributing to the transformation of our largest Enterprise customers worldwide. You will drive revenue growth across Atlassian’s full product portfolio by delivering high customer retention rates, proactively engaging on expansion opportunities, and leading upsell, upgrade & cross-sell opportunities throughout the customer lifecycle. You will partner closely with our Global Sales Team to drive Total Book of Business growth. Additionally, you will be partnering with Sales team on strategic opportunities, including white space analysis, strategic account planning & mapping, and cross-functional partnership with Sales support teams.

We are looking for team player who can adapt rapidly to changing events and handle the complexity and detail orientation that comes with large strategic accounts. In addition, you need to be able to prioritize high value activities amongst competing priorities. You have over 5 years of relevant experience with a proven track record of achieving revenue targets and accelerating expansion within your owned book of business, ideally with experience in owning sales engagements end-to-end.

Responsibilities

The team is comprised of proactive, resilient, and empathetic Account Managers, specialized in accelerating growth across Atlassian's full suite of products and services. You are adaptable to change, consistently seek opportunities to learn, and lean into collaboration to drive success. We believe in the Atlassian values and want to use them as our compass in constantly refining and optimizing our go-to-market model.

Responsibilities Include:

• Accelerating revenue growth by leveraging existing customer footprints to maximize expansion via a tops-down, solution-oriented approach

• Developing Senior and Executive relationships over video conferences as well as in-person

• Manage high-value renewals & expansion across a sizable product portfolio

• Ownership of growth opportunity management and sales cycles end-to-end

• Partner with our Sales team on account planning and driving total book of business growth through competitive, market and whitespace analysis

• Increase customer awareness of Atlassian's product portfolio to discover cross-sell and up-sell opportunities

• Maintain a deep understanding of product updates and new offerings and articulates those improvements to customers and our solution partners

• Forecasting accountability for your owned book of business

In the first 90 days you’ll..

• Manages time effectively and prioritize among competing opportunities

• Executes creative and unique approaches to help evolve best practices 

• Demonstrated excellence in discovery, with proven ability to engage with curiosity to identify opportunity

• Demonstrated experience leading sales cycles end-to-end

• Leverage subject matter expertise to build credibility with stakeholders/champions

• A team player mindset; driving collaboration and engagement scope with global stakeholders

• A customer first mentality advocating for the customer’s interests, solving complex problems, influencing outcomes, and aligning with Atlassian’s strategy

• Effective communication and active listening skills whilst leading revenue expansion efforts from start to finish, and engaging with senior stakeholders

• A strategic approach in reviewing the global account footprint, and prioritizing customer engagements to maximize account growth and retention

• A change agent with the ability to continuously learn and implement feedback

• A tendency to operate daily with a sense of urgency, an affinity for creative problem-solving

Qualifications

• Five or more years experience in account management, inside sales, customer success or other relevant business areas

• Experience selling Enterprise SaaS products across public sector accounts in the DACH region

• Ability to establish rapport and build relationships and trust over the phone and on video across a wide variety of countries and cultures

• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding performance goals

• Experience managing high-revenue customer engagements with Enterprise-level customers

• Experience managing complex, end-to-end sales cycles is preferred

• Experience managing through change and transformations

• German language proficiency and experience managing DACH Enterprise customers

• This role requires you to be based in the UK

It's great, but not required, if you have:

• Experience working with Channel Partners & GSIs to retain and grow customer accounts

• Experience using Salesforce, Clari and Tableau

• Experience analyzing data to support identifying opportunity and projecting growth trajectories

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

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