Director – Account Management
Posted on 4/4/2023
INACTIVE
Locations
United States
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Marketing
Sales
Communications
CategoriesNew
Sales & Account Management
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience leading and expanding a sales function, preferably in Account Management, typically obtained in 5+ years
- Proven track record of building, strengthening, and expanding customer relationships, typically obtained in 7+ years
- Ability to drive team execution while influencing internal SMEs toward positive outcomes without direct authority
- Ability to identify and sell new revenue streams within customer accounts
- Ability to gain a deep understanding of our competitive landscape and differentiators, particularly as they relate to customer accounts
- Strong customer orientation
- Superior problem-solving skills and ability to thrive when given opportunities to solve complex challenges
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Ability to juggle multiple initiatives in a rapidly changing environment
- Fundamental understanding of security threats, solutions, security tools, or network technologies
- Familiarity with a variety of security concepts, compliance regulations, practices, and procedures
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
Responsibilities
- Oversee, recruit, develop, manage, and motivate a team of Account Managers
- Direct the team to build and expand relationships with existing customers
- Develop a strategy for the retention and growth of the existing customer base
- Lead and facilitate sales initiatives
- Provide coaching around sales process and pipeline development
- Help the team manage and grow relationships to drive expansion and renewals across all solutions within assigned accounts
- Provide feedback to stakeholders regarding service failures or customer concerns
- Help the team identify roadblocks and obstacles to increasing business
- Maintain expert knowledge of ZeroFOX's systems and processes
- Minimize churn and maximize renewed accounts
- Ensure the team takes ownership and drives customer satisfaction throughout the entire lifecycle of the customers' renewal process
- Monitor activities, identify risks, and implement initiatives to ensure the attainment of revenue targets
- Conduct weekly pipeline and quarterly business reviews to ensure correct coverage that will exceed target attainment
- Develop appropriate training programs and implement best practices
- Enforce the team's use of SFDC to effectively manage account information, contacts, opportunities, pipelines, and forecasts
- Ensure the team presents tailored solutions to address account issues and challenges
- Report on sales strategies and pipeline regularly to the Executive Team
- Provide input for sales and marketing materials when needed
- Inform the ongoing SDLC to ensure customer requests are represented on the roadmap
- Serve as a point of escalation for customer issues and contract negotiation
- Individually manage key accounts on a consistent basis and provide overflow support as necessary
Desired Qualifications
- Fluency in another language
- Professional sales training is preferred
- You don't watch the clock and would rather work until you're satisfied with your team's results
- You're used to producing superior work while meeting aggressive deadlines
- You're highly competitive, ramp quickly, are extremely adaptive, and pride yourself on exceeding production goals
- You learn best through practical application and exercising good judgment
- You're comfortable with a quickly growing team and company
- As a self-starter, when you find a problem, you alert the team, and fix it…you don't wait for the next task