The Opportunity
As an Business Development Director, you will be responsible for renewals and stakeholder management.
You will work in coordination with Customer Success Managers, and you will be the primary contact of the executives. Your primary responsibility will be to drive renewal, create expansion and MRR Raise opportunities, contract terms including price negotiations, and manage high-level stakeholders through all account bases. Your daily responsibilities will include sponsor nurturing, discovering all stakeholders and their needs to be matched with Insider product suites, Business Reviews, renewal processes, contract negotiations.
Job Description
- Own a portfolio of existing accounts and take responsibility for their retention and growth.
- Identify upsell and cross sell opportunities within existing accounts.
- Proactively own renewals in accounts in cooperation with the Customer Success team.
- Succeed in a team selling environment for maximum account penetration and coverage.
- Consistently forecast monthly and quarterly performance.
- Negotiate deals and contracts at various levels within the targeted account, with primary focus/importance on “C” and enterprise level negotiations.
- Participating in meetings with key stakeholders starting from onboarding kick-off and Business Review meetings
- Discovering strategic needs and direction of the customers, setting goals and objectives with a customer that will enable the teams to drive business impact
- Analyzing stakeholder mapping and setting overall strategy to capture right frequency in touchpoints
- Taking ownership of renewal success and strategy to achieve key commercial/contractual targets
- Ensuring Customer Success realization achieved and recognized across key stakeholders and reaching NPS targets ensuring best customer experience and success recognition
- Achieving customer advocacy goals with the marketing team with success stories, testimonials, and so on
- Monitoring market trends and industry analysis to nurture key stakeholders aligned with Insider Product and Strategic Roadmap execution
What we expect from you?
- 7+ year experience in Account Management, or Sales in SaaS and Martech
- Proven oral and written communication abilities, positive and energetic phone skills, and exquisite listening skills.
- Proven track record of using sales & persuasive skills
- To be a self-motivated and savvy tech bug, always in search of savvy solutions and ideas to improve our relationship with our clients
- To cherish one of our core ethos: care.
- You’ll need to care for our clients and make sure they feel at home with our products and our around the clock support
- Passion for testing, measuring, and improving outreach and follow up effectiveness
- Strong communication skills in both writing and speaking
- High sense of responsibility and accountability
- A strategic thinker with excellent project and time management skills
- Experience negotiating and navigating contracts and legal discussions
- Thrives in a fast-paced, high growth, rapidly changing environment
- Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts, and ensuring follow-through with verbal and written communication.
- Strong presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences and various levels of management (Senior Marketing Executives, IT management, Database administrators, and Data Scientist).
- Proven track record of building relationships and need discovery with senior customer executives in large or highly strategic accounts.
- Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus solutions/engagements required.
- A university degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or related fields
