About the position
Forum One is seeking an experienced Account Manager to join their team. In this role, you will be responsible for managing customer relationships across a large portfolio of clients. Your expertise in consulting, digital communications, user experience, and/or technology will be utilized to serve as a trusted advisor to clients. Additionally, you will be tasked with expanding services, growing accounts, and ensuring client satisfaction. This is an opportunity to join a mission-driven company and make a meaningful impact.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior strategic adviser overseeing a portfolio of active projects and client accounts, ensuring high-quality work, exceptional client satisfaction, and strong financial performance.
- Build relationships and trust with account contacts, advocating for client’s needs and being a strategic advisor throughout all of their engagements. Help them plan for the future.
- Develop and execute strategies to expand services and grow accounts within your portfolio of existing accounts while maintaining profitability. This includes strategic account planning, account-based marketing, account mapping, networking, and outreach.
- Conduct regular account reviews to highlight key results, conduct metric analysis, and recommend process/procedure changes to better address client needs.
- Cultivate new leads, convert leads into qualified opportunities, and identify up-sell opportunities within existing accounts and work with solutions architects, sales executives, and proposal team to write proposals and execute contracts.
- Support your project managers and project teams and help solve challenging client situations, and working to ensure overall project team satisfaction and project health.
- Support marketing efforts by developing collateral in the form of white papers, blog posts, and case studies about your client work.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5 years of experience in account management, senior project management, digital strategy, or growing accounts
- Experienced in project management within an agency or consulting environment, client relationship development, stakeholder alignment, and high client satisfaction
- Solutions architecture, account-based marketing, or sales experience
- Experience with organizations that work with issues of importance, particularly in Forum One's target sectors
Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Employee Ownership Plan
- 401(k) match, Commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts
- 15 Vacation days, in addition to Sick Leave & Floating Holidays
- Flexible work hours
- Paid parental leave
- Company-provided laptops
- Professional development opportunities
- Tuition reimbursement