Account Manager, Mid Market (Italian Speaker, 12-month Contract)

We're looking for an Account Manager. Mid-Market (Italian Speaker, 12-month contract) to manage, retain, and grow relationships within our Mid-Market customer segment. In this role, you will be the primary commercial owner for a portfolio of accounts, with a clear mandate to ensure long-term customer value, successful retention, and targeted expansion. You will leverage a deep understanding of our platform and full product suite to drive consistent customer value and achieve superior renewal and expansion outcomes. This is a hybrid role based out of our London or Luxembourg offices and will report into the Manager, Account Management, Mid-Market.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Maintain day-to-day contact with your book of Mid Market customers, establishing influential relationships by providing timely answers to questions, monitoring health and adoption, in order to enhance performance across social media.
• Manage the post-sale relationships, including multithreaded customer engagements. Implement negotiation strategies with manager support to drive successful renewal and expansion outcomes.
• Provide weekly forecasts and maintain rolling forecasts ensuring SFDC is consistently updated for your customers. Monitor account data health, identify risks and/or objections, and escalate risks to internal stakeholder groups for timely mitigation to ensure customer retention.
• Act as a trusted advisor throughout the customer journey, leveraging your knowledge of product fit while tailoring existing renewal strategy to meet customers' unique needs with manager support.
• Conduct Strategic Business Reviews (SBR) to discuss accomplishments, opportunities, account growth and to identify areas of improvement
• Monitor and report on customer engagement activities and results in order to assess trends using SFDC, Gainsight, Gong and others
• Consistently build an expansion pipeline, focusing on the upsell of product add-ons upon contract renewal or during the service period to meet or exceed expansion targets.
• Demonstrate an understanding of contract terms and processes in order to positively influence the renewal process as well as ensure a seamless customer experience.
• Report clients' feedback to manager and relevant internal stakeholders
• Log feature requests and update customer account notes in Salesforce. Identify and escalate potential account risks and maintain SFDC hygiene
• Collaborate with Professional Services where applicable
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• Relevant experience in sales or customer success experience, preferably in a fast paced, SaaS industry
• Fluent in English and Italian
• Proven success managing a customer portfolio; demonstrated ability to manage a high volume of opportunities and transactions, while leveraging data driven insights within the customer journey and sales process.
• Proven record of quota attainment and/or portfolio management and can share experiences of developing business plans with a mix of tactics.
• Experience using sales tools such as SFDC, Gong, Sales Navigator, 6Sense, and Gainsight
• Belief in ValueSelling, with a strong sense of what customers value and how to challenge them to develop a deeper understanding of how Hootsuite delivers impact and ROI.
• Open Communication: Clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding, supporting new owls with internal training and collaboration sessions.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs. Commitment to Results: Consistently achieving results, demonstrating high performance, and challenging self and others to deliver results.
• Customer Focus: Demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers to meet their needs.
• Negotiation: Successfully obtains commitment to a solution or idea, while maintaining integrity and relationships.
• Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish - doesn't give up.

WHO YOU ARE:

• Solution seeker. You're focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward-and you don't wait to be asked.
• Lifelong learner. You have a growth mindset - you're here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn't.
• Resilient adapter. In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.
• Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.
• Critical challenger. You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.
• Active communicator. You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.
• Integrated thinker. You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team's work drives broader organizational goals.
• Accountable owner. You take pride in the work you're responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.
• Bar-raiser. You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.

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Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

This posting is for a current vacancy for which we are actively hiring.

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