Account Director

Cision•Cleveland, OH

About The Position

At Cision, we believe in empowering every individual to make an impact. Here, your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your unique perspective fuels our collective success. As part of our global team, you'll thrive in an environment that champions curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, all while making meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate. Join us in shaping the future of communication and building authentic connections that matter. Whether you're solving complex problems or driving bold innovations, your growth is our success, and together, we’ll create the conversations of tomorrow. Empower your impact at Cision. Be seen, be understood, be you. Cision is looking for an Enterprise Account Director to focus on retaining and growing our footprint within our most valued strategic customers. The position will sit under the Sales organization and is designed to focus on expanding our services footprint across your assigned account base consisting of mostly Fortune 100 type accounts. You will love to engage clients to share the value of marketing technology, data, analytics, and strategic services to build higher revenue streams with major brands. We want a person who understands how to oversee renewal and upsell programs in conjunction with customer success managers to continuously add value to our clients while growing their commitment to Cison. Reporting to the Regional Vice President of Sales, you will use your position to bring the best thinking to this important role to meet the needs of our brand clients, and deliver sustained revenue growth by developing and executing on strategic account plans.

Requirements

5+ years’ experience in sales or account management role and if you are:
Genuinely curious about how earned and social data can solve business problems
Experienced in crafting and executing sales strategies to win business
Ability to develop high level relationships across an organization in fortune 100 accounts
Completely comfortable leading meetings in front of large groups and pitching offers
Dedicated to teamwork and able to deliver in competitive sales engagements
An exceptional communicator and relationship builder
Drive to work autonomously and proactively in a remote work environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in digital, social, media relations and marketing, analytics research and insights teams
Knowledge of the marketing technology sector including public relations, digital, social, marketing automation, data integration, attribution and consumer and market insight
Prior roles in sales and account management

Responsibilities

Be assigned revenue targets in assigned key accounts, and meet other key account objectives defined by company management
Establishes productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned customer accounts
Introduce new offers to existing users and expand our presence to new divisions and subsidiaries
Develop a comprehensive understanding of typical business challenges faced by customers and common objectives to map Cision product features and associated benefits to address their needs
Collaborate with marketing and pre-sales teams to build and launch upsell programs that highlight the value of new offers
Work with internal stakeholders, including Product, Customer Success and Client Services teams to evangelize Cision’s product offering to clients, and meet customer expectations and performance objectives
Introduce Cision solutions to additional client teams and groups to advance our position across key accounts
Coordinate the development of strategic account plans with the customer success teams to align timing and sequence of sales processes in conjunction with renewal and retention effort
Onsite travel to meet with your clients (minimum of 30% travel)
Achieve and exceed assigned sales quota in designated strategic accounts.