Account Manager V, Commercial - Folsom, United States - Kaiser Permanente
Description
Job Summary:
In addition to the responsibilities listed above, this position is also responsible for developing and implementing complex competitive sales and retention strategies for KPs largest accounts including multi-year benefits strategies; partnering with customer organizations, key union influencers and/or decision makers, consultants, and other influencers to develop and implement reposition and growth strategies; driving the renewal sales negotiation to achieve the goals of the renewal or sale and align with the customers strategy; guiding internal partners in the execution of customized account strategies to meet customer needs and provide exemplary service in a highly complex customer environment; driving strategy and expansions into other KP regions, ancillary products, and new populations of eligibles, guiding other internal partners as appropriate; guiding a cross-functional team (e.g., Client Service Management, physician ambassadors, underwriting, marketing, territory managers, labor liaisons, actuarial, community affairs, government relations) to ensure optimal resource use as account strategies are executed; maintaining advanced knowledge of market intelligence, key trends, and customer insights that may influence broader organizational decisions; and demonstrating sensitivity while navigating internal or external issues that may impact KP labor management partnership.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with crossfunctional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices selfleadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.
- Drives a positive customer experience and market turnaround expectations by: building and maintaining strategic relationships with customers, consultants, brokers, and/or channels while acting as the KP representative to drive contract, benefit/service, and renewal activities; demonstrating highly advanced product knowledge when educating customers, consultants, brokers, and/or channel partners, resolving complex questions or concerns; demonstrating a highly advanced understanding of prospect or customer business to ensure that Request for Renewal (RFR) response and engagement strategies are in alignment with customer goals; partnering with engagement team/specialist to drive engagement programs (e.g., member wellness); and providing accurate information including highly advanced recommendations for new products, benefits/services offerings, and pricing models to address customer, consultant, broker, and/or channel needs and guiding others to do the same.
- Demonstrates commitment to KP sales and retention goals by: implementing complex strategies to meet or exceed targets for retention and growth for accounts in the Book of Business; documenting progress on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), maintaining updated Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform, and guiding others to do the same; and driving the sustained growth and competitive position of KP in the market.
- Contributes to the execution of sales and renewals by: collaborating across teams to drive the RFR process for complex accounts, following established timelines and best practices; driving complex sales and renewals including administration, negotiations, and presentations and rate product and benefit/service validation; driving task progress across functions to facilitate the negotiation of complex and/or custom contracts and pricing; and developing and implementing strategies for crosssell and upsell to increase growth and retention.
- Supports internal and external communication by: driving collaboration across functions to develop account strategy; guiding the flow of information across functions to advance the process of meeting deadlines and objectives; providing highly advanced recommendations to customer channels on all aspects of health benefits/services strategy and offering; and representing the marketplace perspective to inform strategic direction and decisionmaking of senior leadership.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
- Bachelors degree in Marketing, Finance, Business Administration, or related field AND minimum seven (7) years of experience in sales, customer service, telemarketing, account management, health plan administration, insurance, or a directly related field OR minimum ten (10) years of experience in sales, customer service, telemarketing,
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