Full-Time

Enterprise Account Director

Posted on 4/19/2024

Cision

Cision

1,001-5,000 employees

PR software platform and marketing solutions

Data & Analytics

Senior

Austin, TX, USA

Required Skills
Sales
Communications
Salesforce
Marketing
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree required
  • At least 4 years of successful outside sales experience with demonstrated ability to exceed assigned quotas through retention and expansion and to meet sales activity and behavior expectations
  • Proficient with sales force automation tools (ex. Salesforce.com, Office 365, XANT etc.)
  • Ability to travel to client sites daily, with the potential for 20% - 40% travel
  • Valid driver's license required
  • Excellent networking, relationship building, communication, presentation, and persuasion skills
  • Keen interest in business and industry news
  • Understanding of Earned, Owned and Social media
Responsibilities
  • Analyzes customer assignment and develops a plan of action in conjunction with his/her sales leader to grow revenues and achieve their assigned quota through a mix of retention and expansion
  • Proactively and consistently calls on existing customers to drive business conversations to uncover new opportunities, monitor service/product usage, issues, competitive activity, and ROI to ensure a high revenue retention rate, expansion, and product renewal
  • Builds strong and broad relationships with multiple points of contact at each account (e.g., Communications, Social Media, Marketing, Investor Relations, Senior Leadership) based upon the ability to add value to their business
  • Expands existing business by positioning and selling the appropriate products/services to address needs
  • Networks within local geography, client base, and or industry
  • Works collaboratively with the New Business Director team to transition after a New Business Director secures a new account
  • Focused on retaining and expanding these new accounts
  • Onboard assigned new members that proactively reach out to the Member Service Center
  • Focus on retaining and expanding these new accounts
  • Fully satisfies the company's and manager's expectations related to sales activity (e.g., meetings per week, pipeline management, account reviews, etc.), reporting (sales activity, opportunity pipeline management, forecasting, customer profiling, etc.), and administration

Cision provides a PR software platform and marketing solutions, leveraging technologies such as PR distribution, media monitoring, and social media listening to enable professionals to distribute, monitor, and analyze media content. These technologies empower users to understand, influence, and amplify their stories in today's data-driven world.

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$1.9B

Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois

Founded

1866

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

-3%

2 year growth

3%
INACTIVE