We’re looking for an Account Specialist to maintain day-to-day contact with our existing customers at scale to help them realize the value of our products and services and establish long term partnerships with Hootsuite by exploring and qualifying future growth opportunities. In this role, you will leverage your commercial skillset to successfully manage a high volume of customer renewals, while cultivating upsell, cross sell and expansion opportunities for both Hootsuite and Partner products in your book of business. As part of the Scaled Account Management team you will collaborate cross-functionally to provide customer value in all stages of the sales cycle. While based in Hootsuite's Bucharest or London office (in accordance with Hootsuite's local employment entities), you will report to Manager, Scaled Account Management. Please note, this role is a contract role with a duration of 2 years.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Maintain low-touch day-to-day contact with customers for our pooled accounts at scale; providing timely answers to questions and focus on driving customer health and experience.
- Develop rapport with customers by proactively providing insightful market information and solutions that showcase maximum benefits from Hootsuite products.
- Drive renewals, upsells, and expansion in your low ARR accounts by focusing on customer engagements at scale and educating customers on Hootsuite’s value proposition in our pooled motion.
- Provide weekly forecasts and maintain rolling forecasts including monitoring and reporting account data health.
- Consistently contribute to generating team pipeline of upsell /product add-ons upon contract renewal or during service period to meet or exceed expansion targets.
- Successfully manage the end-to-end renewal process required to hit or exceed team renewal targets/quotas, leveraging your product knowledge to efficiently meet customers needs.
- Demonstrate understanding of contract terms and processes in order to maximize contract value and efficiency as well as ensure a seamless customer experience.
- Support the optimization of digital-first programmes for our pooled model by providing recommendations based on intimate knowledge of customer database
- Collaborate cross-functionally to provide customer value in all stages of the sales cycle
- Manage and report on customer engagement activities and results in order to assess trends using SFDC, Front App, Gainsight, Gong and others
- Share product and sales experience within the team in order to meet and exceed team targets
- Perform other related duties as assigned
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
- Intermediate level sales or customer success experience, preferably as an Account Executive, or Customer Success Associate or Customer Support Advocate
- Fluency in French and English
- Proven success in monthly and quarterly sales forecasting
- Solid business acumen and tech savvy with a strong ability to focus on customer business value, ROI, and customer solutions.
- Strong ability to articulate product features in an easy to understand language to inspire sales, build trust and establish long term relationships
- Experience in creating sales strategies inclusive of 3rd party solutions.
- Strong communication and presentation skills via various platforms, including by phone, video, email.
- Commitment to Results: Consistently achieves 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.
- Collaboration and Teamwork: Works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
WHO YOU ARE:
- Tenacious. You are determined to succeed, and you are motivated by the success of customers, colleagues and the community.
- Curious. You are always learning and seeking ways to make things better.
- Conscientious. You keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity.
- Humble. You lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others.
In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:
Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles. #StepUp
One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best work without compromising who they are. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe
Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed
Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile
Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses
Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies
Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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What We Do
Hootsuite has been on the pulse of how people use social media for over a decade. As the global leader and world’s first social media management platform, we put social to work in every corner of every organization, from the smallest business to the largest enterprise. We are committed to helping customers harness the power of social media to ignite their brand and business.
How? Over time, we’ve adapted our software to help businesses reach their customers more efficiently across multiple platforms, improve their customer service and gain deeper analytics and consumer insights. Through our deep expertise in social media management, social insights, employee advocacy, and social customer care, we empower organizations to strategically grow their brands, businesses, and customer relationships – while guiding them through the wild world of social media.
Put simply, we help our customers with:
Social media marketing: Create, schedule, publish, and manage content and ad campaigns across social networks from a single dashboard. We help maximize the impact of social marketing by providing real-time insights, so customers can focus on other areas of their business.
Social care: By combining the power of conversational AI with the human touch of our customers’ team(s), our customer messaging platform delivers exceptional customer experiences at scale.
Social customer care: We help our customers meet their customers where they are at. Using Hootsuite, businesses can view and manage all of their customer conversations in one dashboard, providing service that’s seamless and personal.
Why Work With Us
As the creators of social media management, Hootsuite has been on the pulse of this dynamic and ever-changing space since our inception. Working at Hootsuite means being at the forefront of social innovation, tapping into courageous creativity to guide customers through the wild world of social, and helping to define what it means to ‘be social.’
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