Account Manager

• Should have experience in both sales (hunting) and Account Management (Farming)
• Should have a track record of managing an account for more than 4-7 years with the growth record
• Should possess excellent oral and written communication skills
• Should be willing to have short trips to US / UK for 4 - 7 times a year
• Should have a very good understanding of Technology services
• Should have managed multiple customers/clients
• Exposure to project/ program management would be desirable

Responsibilities:

• Establish productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned accounts.
• Build a deep understanding of the assigned account's business and identify potential opportunities.
• Build the pipeline for the existing and new services.
• Be the Primary contact to the assigned account and ensure the relationship is built at all levels.
• Coordinate the involvement of company resources, including delivery, support functions, and management team to meet the account performance objectives and customer expectations.
• Proactively assess, clarify, and validate customer needs on an ongoing basis.
• Responsible for Customer Satisfaction and work with the counterpart on the delivery side
• Own the account and perform the Account Analytics to be able to create growth
• Make sure the CRM is up to date.
• Ensure Account level metrics exist and run a monthly/quarterly steering committee meeting with the stakeholders on both sides
• Own the contract process with all the accounts
• Ensure the client has the complete visibility of all the Aspire services with periodic updates
• Meets assigned targets for profitability and strategic objectives in assigned accounts.
• Ensure compliance to the Account Management process as defined by the company

Accountabilities and Performance measures:

• Achieves assigned targets in the designated accounts.
• Meets assigned expectations for profitability.
• Ensure the collections are done on time (DSO is a metric)
• Achieves strategic customer objectives defined by company management.
• Completes strategic customer account plans that meet company standards.
• Work timing would be aligned to the respective geography.

Key communication points:

• Within Aspire: Senior Management, Service Line Heads and Managers, Project Managers of the assigned accounts, Marketing teams
• Customer Side: CXO, VPs, Product Managers
• Maintains high customer satisfaction ratings (CSAT) that meet company expectations.