Account Director

Tech Talent International•Denver, CO

15h•Remote

About The Position

Our client is seeking a Account Director who has a heavy focus on Microsoft tech to join their team of dedicated customer-centric professionals. The role will own a dynamic portfolio of accounts and strategically engage with clients on topics ranging from account management, renewals, strategic solution guidance, technology roadmap planning, and future state cloud and digital strategies. The role will be ultimately accountable to help clients maximize business value and usage of products and solutions while ensuring a high quality client experience. The ideal candidate is motivated by helping clients with technology planning and problem-solving, and making a direct impact on client business operations as well as on evolving internal methods and procedures. The role requires strong client facing capabilities (10+ years), and a mix of relationship management, business development, transformational planning, and an understanding of cloud/digital capabilities. The candidate will bring a mindset of end-to-end account ownership with the ability to influence internal partners to advocate for client needs and enhance services and solutions to meet client outcomes. Experience with one or more of the following is a plus: cloud infrastructure, application, data and digital / IT transformation consulting Reporting to the VP of Sales, Existing Business, the role will work regularly with Operational and Delivery teams, Project Management, Marketing, and Solution / Practice Leadership, well as the Executive Leadership Team on account planning for top accounts. Account Director role levels will vary dependent on portfolio size and expansion targets

Requirements

Role levels vary, the highest of which will require managing $10M+ in annual revenue and achieving growth targets of $1M+ annually
Must have strong background selling Microsoft products and or services
Consultative advisory skill set
Project management and change management discipline
Excellent client relationship management skills at senior leadership and operational management levels
Ability to work effectively at the Executive level with both small and enterprise organizations
Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to handle high levels of workload, delegate and influence internal stakeholders, and ability to multitask.
Strong commercial, quantitative and analyzing skills with the ability to deliver revenue and profit growth initiative and influence business strategy
Driven and resourceful with high levels of attention to details and quality control.
Strong business acumen and able to look at strategic and long-term consequences of actions
Travel to customer sites as required from time to time

Nice To Haves

cloud infrastructure, application, data and digital / IT transformation consulting

Responsibilities

Develop, manage and generate expansion revenue through strategic cross-sell, upsell, and multi-product sales for existing installed base accounts
Plan and map out expansion plans per account using whitespace analysis
Work with solution and practice leadership to problem-solve internal gaps with strategic solutions
Bring a sales engineering mindset to coordinate internal technical and solution development teams
Own client sales proposals and presentations, as well as negotiate and contract
Manage CRM opportunities from development, qualify, propose to close phase
Contribute to account-based marketing initiatives to support expansion
Manage complex, large, often bespoke and multi-product bids, including proposal decks, presentations, RFPs, and SOWs with support from pre-sales. This may include complex renewals.
Lead engagement of key partnerships to support deals ( Microsoft, AWS, Oracle ), with support from Partnership and Vendor Management functions
Prepare executives for key meetings including developing materials and account strategies
Apply understanding of financials to engineer pricing models to support deals
Has a broad understanding of competitive positioning and competitor strategies to support deal development and negotiation
Own a portfolio of complex, enterprise and high-touch accounts (typically between $1M-$4M in annual revenue per account)
Build deep and wide relationships and develop engagement strategy for top strategic accounts
Understand client's short- and long-term business goals and develop account plans that include an understanding of their business outcomes and our roadmap to achieve them with solutions
Provide trusted advice to clients on services they should retain, expand, or change to maximize business value
Manage regular cadence of business reviews to review achievement of outcomes, account health, key client milestones, proactively discuss risks and future opportunities
Ensure regular meetings with clients and engagement activities (including social events) to foster relationships and understand client needs
Manage and lead the activities for customer renewals including renewal offer development (bundles, discounts, add-on's), renewal margin analysis with Finance, and negotiation & contracting
Proactively manage all areas of account health and risks (operational, financial, relationship, project). Provide direction and oversight to internal teams to address risks
Ensure that customer deliverables are documented clearly and have executed contracts that provide the scope of services adjusting through addendums and change orders as required
Proactively seek out ways to create more value for clients through increased engagement, efficiencies, and relationship building
Lead discovery sessions with client executives, facilitate workshops that address technology solutions to meet critical business needs; gather additional strategic client insights through curated interactions
Comfortable with developing custom plans and high level roadmaps for clients to deploy our services and achieve their outcomes
Coordinate both formal and ad-hoc feedback mechanisms to obtain input from clients at key milestones in their journey and ensure overall client satisfaction
Bring best practices, expertise and resources related to industry trends; maintain a high level of industry knowledge and attend industry conferences (Microsoft, AWS, etc.) to remain on top of key trends
Ensure reference-ability of customer including case studies and testimonials