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As part of Institutional Sales, the role of the Account Development Executive is to retain existing revenue by ensuring utilization and adoption of services. The Account Development Executive will work closely with the Account Manager to identify new revenue opportunities within their assigned territories.
Key Responsibilities:
• Manage the day-to-day business relationship with assigned accounts in order to retain and grow existing business.
• Engage in a range of Account Development activities, including but not limited to: helping clients understand the benefits of new products/services; conducting training and awareness sessions; ensuring customer issues are addressed in a timely manner; managing roll-out of new products to meet specified customer goals; managing trials/pilots.
• Communicate regularly with the key customer contacts to ensure up-to-date client understanding of Factiva's products and services.
• Minimize risk of customer cancellation or reductions through analysis of customer usage and by identifying ways to improve the perceived value of Dow Jones products and services.
• Proactively identify opportunities for increasing revenue within assigned territories to maximize penetration into customer organizations.
• Cultivate, and maintain a network of customer contacts to help champion Factiva within the enterprise.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date customer records in the CRM System. Highlight customer visits, new users, and displacement opportunities for rapid response, referral and follow-up
Key Relationships Internally and Externally:
• Build strong relationships with customers at all levels. Build trust and loyalty with users, influencers, champions and C-level executives to retain and expand business opportunities.
• Collaborate with the Global Account • Develop strong relationships with internal resources including but not restricted to Account Specialists, Regional Marketing, Product Marketing, Legal, Product Development, and Customer Service to achieve sales goals.
Knowledge, Skill and Experience Required:
• Two years experience in sales or sales support of online information and/or related high value technology products and services.
• Experience in managing high level accounts.
• Communication skills that successfully position the value of Factiva offerings build credibility and demonstrate business knowledge.
• Understanding of workflow applications, emerging technologies and industry standards.
• High level of initiative and self motivation, with the ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to maintain effectiveness when working with people of diverse cultures or background.
• Strong focus and urgency for resolving customer issues and building customer loyalty.
• Ability to understand current and potential customers' needs, expectations, and business priorities in order to create and continually improve marketing strategies.
• Sensitivity to customers' organizational or political issues to build and maintain trust with customers.
• Ability to build and develop collaborative customer relationships to identify issues, assesses needs, and solve problems.
• Ability to prioritize account penetration/management activities to optimize sales productivity.
• Ability to stay informed and up to date on industry trends, the competition and changing technology to better understand customer opportunities
• Capability to readily adapt to change.
• Degree level education.
• This role requires travel within the assigned territory.
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