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Lead - Account Management

Freshworks Chennai, India senior full-time

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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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