Client Managing Partner - Austin, United States - Acxiom

Description

The Client Managing Partner owns the relationships with multiple of Acxiom's accounts and clients.

Oversees and maintains a consultative relationship with the client, acting as the primary contact and partner for all Acxiom products and services.

Responsible for maintaining excellent client communication at all levels of the organization.

Works closely with the client to regularly review account and solution performance, identifying and communicating opportunities for additional Acxiom support.

Finally, they are responsible for developing the business by identifying and selling additional services within the Acxiom product portfolio.

The Client Managing Partner owns the relationships with multiple of Acxiom's accounts and clients.

Oversees and maintains a consultative relationship with the client, acting as the primary contact and partner for all Acxiom products and services.

Responsible for maintaining excellent client communication at all levels of the organization.

Works closely with the client to regularly review account and solution performance, identifying and communicating opportunities for additional Acxiom support.

Finally, they are responsible for developing the business by identifying and selling additional services within the Acxiom product portfolio.


WE NEED:

• Revenue Driver:

Ability to contribute to the generation of revenue proactively and strategically for an organization.

Revenue drivers possess the skills and knowledge needed to identify, create, and seize opportunities that lead to increased sales, income, and profitability.

• Consultation:

Ability to engage with others in a collaborative and client-focused manner to understand their needs, provide expert advice, and offer solutions that address those needs effectively.

A consultative approach involves active listening, problem-solving, and the ability to build trust-based relationships with clients, customers, or colleagues.

• Client Advocate:

Represent and champion the interests, needs, and concerns of clients or customers within an organization.

A client advocate serves as a dedicated liaison, ensuring that clients' expectations are met, their issues are addressed, and their overall experience is positive and satisfactory.

• Relationship Builder:

Ability to initiate, develop, nurture, and maintain positive and meaningful connections with others, whether they are colleagues, clients, customers, stakeholders, or external partners.

Those with strong relationship-building skills excel in establishing rapport, trust, and mutual respect, which are essential for effective collaboration and achieving common goals.

• Industry Expertise:

Comprehensive knowledge and deep understanding of a specific industry or sector.

Those with industry expertise possess specialized insights, insights, and a nuanced understanding of the market dynamics, trends, challenges, regulations, and competitive landscape within their chosen industry.

WHAT WILL YOU DO:

• Consistently deliver high quality work on time and against commitments.
• Achieves revenue run rate and incremental growth targets, profitability targets, and other sales related goals within named book of accounts.
• Proactively identifies new revenue opportunities and drives account growth and profitability acceleration including new business, up-sell, and cross-sell opportunities.
• Develops and improves client relationships by providing consultation and expertise: aligning client business needs to Acxiom products, solutions, and services.
• With Senior Leadership Team, establish annual and monthly revenue and bookings forecasts.
• Meets and exceeds revenue targets, and other sales and revenue related goals.
• Responsible for managing within salesforce all records of sales, revenue, and other key account information.
• Creates and maintains appropriate, well-managed pipeline.
• Proactively monitors account(s) and determines avenues for account growth.
• Creates value and differentiates Acxiom services and products from competitors.
• Consults with client on new use cases and capabilities to enable organic growth (including decision engines, digital enablement, analytics, channel expansion, etc.)
• Leads or facilitates contract negotiations for new business and renewals.
• Escalation points for status, issues, problems, and feedback to client/stakeholders and teams
• Negotiate contracts on behalf of company.
• Lead client-facing and internal troubleshooting efforts
• Work closely with delivery team managers helping support overall business strategy.
• Work closely with our agency partners to develop and support overall account strategy.
• Lead Engagement Team for client renewals

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• Requires a bachelor's degree and a minimum of eight years (8) of relevant experience. In the absence of a bachelor's degree, relevant experience of an equivalent time will be considered.
• Experience managing large complex accounts.
• Solution selling experience in Retail industry.
• Demonstrated success closing large complex deals.
• Experience and temperament working in high-pressure, fast-paced environments.
• History calling on all levels of client organizations, including senior level executives.
• Ability to articulate and provide example of an understanding of a comprehensive sales process.
• Strong domain expertise in demand creation, lead generation through business prospecting.
• Fundamental understanding of technology, managed service offerings and the changing digital landscape to articulate Acxiom value and drive new opportunities.
• Ability to draft and review contracts.
• Problem-solving skills
• Financial and Business acumen
• Conversational style and ability to ask relevant questions (Solution Selling).
• Strong history of successful consultative, relationship-based selling

WHAT WILL SET YOU APART:

• Twelve years (12) minimum of relevant experience. In the absence of a bachelor's degree, relevant experience of an equivalent time will be considered.
• Expert industry knowledge.
• Multi-functional leadership experience (Consulting, BPO, General Management, etc.)
• Experience in Marketing and Marketing Technologies, including data insights, analytics, and digital marketing experience.
• Deep knowledge of digital ad tech ecosystem
• Deep knowledge of digital ad targeting platforms and technology
• Deep knowledge of the application of consumer and behavioral data in ad tech
• Proven track record of meeting/exceeding goals involving add-on deals and maintaining install base in large, complex organizations.
• Proven success in managing clients with multiple lines of business.
• Ability to map technology solutions to solve business problems or advance business goals.
• Demonstrating resilience and creativity to gain commitments over challenging sales cycles.
• Experience with large sales targets

Why Acxiom? We pride ourselves on cultivating an environment that is inclusive, flexible, and full of opportunities for growth.

Many of our associates stay at Acxiom for decades, which speaks to our love for and dedication to our associates.

Acxiom repeatedly wins company awards including Great Places to Work, Best Workplaces for Innovators and Women. If you want to work at a tech company that prioritizes innovation, empowers diversity, believes in work-life balance, provides world-class associate training and development, and offers great benefits, this IS the place for you


Primary Location City/State:
Homebased - Conway, Arkansas

Additional Locations (if applicable):

Acxiom is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, military status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics or other protected status.

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We are leaders in helping brands achieve the number one mantra for every business – know your customer. For fifty years, we've helped marketers deal with a fast-changing future of growing channels, data and technology.

By understanding the customer, marketers can communicate with relevance everywhere and drive better customer experiences that build a better brand and, in turn, better business.

We're one of the marketing industry's most experienced, respected and forward-thinking leaders.

For nearly fifty years, we've helped the world's best marketers understand their customers so that they can reach people with relevance rather than randomness.

Our products and solutions form the data foundation that make it possible for marketers to drive better customer experiences and meaningful interactions at scale across every channel.

Our job opportunities will give you the opportunity to showcase your talents, grow your skills, and expose you to cutting-edge technologies, whether you're an engineer, developer, products guru, systems and security expert, sales and consulting executive, or an intern looking to gain real experience with a company that will make you stand out.

At Acxiom, our values begin with our associates, who are the single most important driver of our success.

We're looking to hire people who share our core values:

collaboration, excellence, innovation, a focus on outcomes, and being empowered to make and own decisions that benefit our clients and our company.

Our values represent our brand promise – to our clients and to our associates – and define our company culture.

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