Strategic Account Manager with a Leading Global Internet Retailer

This rapidly-growing and globally recognised retail powerhouse offers a creative, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment for hard-working people. The business has an exciting opportunity for a customer-obsessed Strategic Account Manager with a demonstrated track record of successful account and project management, juggling multiple projects with competing deadlines, and using data to identify and prioritise opportunities. He/She is analytical, enthusiastic, self-motivated, detail-oriented, customer-focused, and has strong persuasion skills with the ability to deliver recommendations with authority and influence senior decision makers.

The Role

Operating in a fast-moving and challenging environment, the business’s high performance bar requires that you are self-motivated and target driven, skilled in predominantly phone based account management, can work autonomously and take full control and responsibility for achieving your targets.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage a portfolio of strategic accounts against a set of output and input goals
• Help improve business processes and make the business more effective in supporting their selling partners
• Work on projects to improve the long term business customer experience and grow the business marketplace

You

• Strong background in account management (sales), category, finance or product management, along with related business experience
• Excellent analytical and data-mining aptitude, coupled with strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Proven track record collaborating successfully with internal and external partners
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and to deal with ambiguous problems.
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically with strong attention to detail

Preferred:

• Strong ownership and bias for action
• Data mining skills (SQL)
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Strong analytical orientation
• Experience in consulting and/or retail/consumer products industries
• Delivered results with a strong entrepreneurial spirit