Strategic Account Manager
Description
About O’Reilly Media
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About the Team
The Platform sales team is an important engine working to drive transformation in companies across the globe. If you are a sales professional looking for an organization where you can thrive both as an individual and as part of a highly motivated team, this is a great opportunity to take your career to a new level.
About the Role
In this role you will be responsible for the retention and growth of our largest and most important Platform accounts by understanding their business goals and objectives. This is first and foremost a selling role! We operate in a highly competitive and quickly changing marketplace. While your primary responsibility is working with existing O’Reilly customers, you will need to ensure continuous adherence to the O’Reilly sales process and become an expert in our customization and training opportunities in order to succeed.
We have an incredible team focused on supporting you - a sales support organization (including Customer Relationship Managers) that will work closely with you and your accounts to maximize your daily, consultative selling time, product designers and engineers consistently enhancing our platform, and an editorial team which creates and curates the best content and training in the world. Customer success teams ensure your customers are seamlessly onboarded, keep customers continuously engaged and provide critical ongoing support. O’Reilly is a company that innovates around the customer and ensures you have what you need to succeed as a sales professional.
O’Reilly Media offers a highly intense yet highly committed sales environment. As an O’Reilly team member, you will enjoy a world-class work atmosphere, competitive compensation and benefit plans, collaborative leadership teams, and a company geared to support your success.
Salary Range: $70,000-$130,000
What You’ll Do
- Manage enterprise clients and be responsible for both renewal and growth strategies across your account base always putting customer needs first
- Introduce and manage sales process from beginning to close which includes growing current implementation, upgrading service levels, and introducing new services
- Create and execute strategic account plans to ensure alignment with client initiatives and success metrics to grow each account
- Build contacts and networks in new areas of your client’s organizations - beyond your original stakeholders
- You are expected to be the “resident expert” for each of your accounts and their respective industries. You will understand your accounts' business goals, challenges, competitors, leadership, and transformation objectives. You will be responsible and ready to share this information with colleagues across the company at any time
- Work with clients to create strategies to promote awareness, adoption, and expansion of O’Reilly platform and services
- Identify risk within your accounts and develop strategies for risk mitigation
- Maintain the appropriate mix of written correspondence, telephone contacts, online demonstrations, and onsite visits with clients in order to renew and grow platform, custom platform, and learning services solutions
- Provide client feedback to the organization in a timely and productive manner
- Work with CSMs to analyze and determine overall account health and make proactive recommendations to encourage adoption and growth
- Contribute as an individual, but also collaborate with peers and management to help the team and the company achieve their overarching goals
- Documentation of all sales activities including client engagement, opportunity forecasting, and client support needs for follow-up in Salesforce
- Participate in regular strategy meetings, sales meetings and training sessions as required
What You’ll Have
Required:
- Minimum 4 years of experience in sales or account management
- Experience with cloud-based corporate learning services
- Experience with Challenger and Consultative sales training
- Relationship-focused and experienced in complex account management
- Understanding of subscription models
- Business acumen and an understanding of general business principles
- Demonstrate successful use of various web-based selling tools including Salesforce,
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator, LeadIQ, Salesloft, Gainsight
- Remote working - Demonstrated ability to thrive in a remote-only work environment.
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing. Most contact is via email, phone, and web conferencing. Travel less than 10%
- Must have strong organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and a history of working on highly collaborative teams
- The ability to multi-task is essential
Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred
- Experience working with learning and development, HR and IT professionals preferred
Additional Information: At this time, O'Reilly Media Inc. is not able to provide visa sponsorship or provide any immigration support (i.e. H-1B, STEM, OPT, CPT, EAD and Permanent Residency process)