# Lead - Account Management

**Company**: Freshworks
**Location**: Chennai, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced and strategic Enterprise Account/Portfolio Manager who has a knack in building deep customer relationships and driving incremental business in existing Freshworks customers by delivering value.

They should have a consultative sales approach, a successful track record retaining, growing and on-boarding clients with polished presentation skills.

This person must demonstrate all the behaviors associated with a high performance sales and customer success culture, specifically managing a pipeline of business opportunities and delivering results against a quota.

Responsibilities:

- You'll become the resident expert on the Freshworks platform and will expand our cloud-based software usage in existing customers

- Drive expansion through upsell and cross-sell to meet or exceed revenue targets

- Professionally manage relationships with a portfolio of assigned accounts

- Demonstrating / selling value to key stakeholders within the accounts with Customer Success Plans and strategies

- Build a plan to maximize revenue, and customer satisfaction within your accounts

- Gain a thorough understanding of assigned client's needs, objectives, and processes to ensure that they successfully adopt and deploy Freshworks suite of products

- Create & articulate compelling value conversations with C-Level stakeholders also work in alignment with inside stakeholders namely Implementations, Billing, Support, deals teams etc.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience selling to VP or C level executives in companies

- 7-9 years of overall experience in sales. 5+ years of SAAS sales experience/solution based selling experience

- Experience in driving expanded usage in existing customers

- Track record of success selling into Mid Market and Enterprise companies

- Experience managing and closing complex sales-cycles using solution selling techniques

- Consultative sales skills and ability to construct and articulate strong business cases and ROI, strategic account planning and execution skills.

- Proven track record of consistent account growth and quota achievement

- Thorough understanding/experience in related technology in the CRM/EX/CX space

- Experience with account portfolio planning, management, and prioritization

- Strong project management capability and ability to multitask

- High attention to detail and willingness to get “in the weeds” to fix a problem

- Knowledge of customer success best practices

- Experience driving client adoption of technology or software product

- Skilled in virtual presentations, online web demos, remote sales processes

- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to convey and relate ideas to others

- Vibrant and energetic attitude, willingness to perform and get things done

- Bachelor's Degree/Master's degree preferred

- A technical background is a plus

- Flexibility to work in the US shift (Night Shift)

## Skills

### Required
- SAAS sales
- solution based selling
- consultative sales
- strategic account planning
- CRM/EX/CX space
- account portfolio planning
- project management
- customer success best practices
- virtual presentations
- online web demos
- remote sales processes

### Nice to have
- technical background

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