Strategic Account Manager

Syniti is the enterprise data partner, empowering anyone who relies on data to make business-critical decisions by delivering data they can trust through a unique combination of intelligent software and experts who deeply understand the role of data in enterprise growth. Trusted by the Fortune 2000, Syniti helps leading businesses reconfigure the role of enterprise data from afterthought to foundational first step; enabling them to unlock valuable insights that ignite growth, reduce risk, and expand their competitive advantage. Syniti's Data First philosophy and enterprise data management platform supports data migration, data quality, data replication, data matching, master data management, analytics, data governance, and data strategy in a single, unified solution.

The Strategic Account Manager is responsible for overseeing a portfolio of assigned customers, developing new business from existing relationships and actively seeking new sales opportunities. In this role, you will liaise with cross-functional teams to improve the entire customer experience. Over time, you will create long-term, trusted relationships with our customers. At Syniti, a successful Strategic Account Manager collaborates with our sales team to achieve quotas while keeping our clients satisfied and engaged with our products and services.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Serve as the primary point of contact for all customer engagements
• Build and maintain strong, trusted and long-lasting client relationships
• Negotiate contracts and close agreements to maximize profits
• Ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs and objectives
• Clearly communicate the progress of monthly/quarterly initiatives to internal and external stakeholders
• Develop new business with existing customers and/or identify other areas of growth to meet sales quotas
• Forecast and track key account metrics (e.g. quarterly sales results and annual forecasts)
• Timely and accurate forecasting and maintain Salesforce.com hygiene
• Prepare reports on account status
• Collaborate with sales team to identify and grow opportunities within territory
• Own and assist with resolving client requests or issue escalations as needed
• Travel up to 80% or more based on business need

WHAT IT TAKES

• 10+ years of experience in IT software & services sales or consulting
• Proven success in an enterprise sales function
• Demonstrable ability to communicate, present and influence key stakeholders at all levels of an organization, including executive and C-level
• Solid experience with Salesforce and MS Office (particularly MS Excel)
• Experience delivering client-focused solutions to customer needs
• Proven ability to juggle multiple account management projects at a time, while maintaining sharp attention to detail
• Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation abilities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field
• Be fully aligned to the core values of our organization which are:

• Think Big - Be courageous and bold. Aspire to greatness. Relentlessly pursue market innovation. Set the standard by which others follow. Create solutions that have a meaningful impact. Solve the challenges our customers don’t know they have.
• Be Curious - Be a lifelong learner. Seek out new ideas to serve customers. Understand our competition and the world. Be permanently dissatisfied with the status quo. Challenge preconceptions. Focus on the future rather than yesterday.
• Take Action - Be the first. Don’t wait. Take accountability. Inspire others by doing. Fail fast and learn from mistakes. Make a difference every day.
• Stronger Together - Respect, trust and look out for each other. Celebrate diverse perspectives. Listen. Build connections and belonging. Act with integrity. Give back. One Syniti family.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Trust that you are good at what you’re doing. At Syniti you will find a supportive environment and access to learning tools, but micromanagement is not our thing.
• Growth - We are growing rapidly and steadily solving the biggest challenges enterprise companies are faced with today. There was never a better time to join and grow with us. Most importantly you will have the chance to shape our journey and share in our success story.
• Support - We all rely on each other and enable each other to be successful. You won’t stand alone.
• Curiosity and genuine interest in you - We all have our different stories, all equally fascinating with each depicting a different journey and we want to hear them all.
• Recognition - We are the sum of individual achievements, and we always take the time to celebrate them.
• An open organisation - Hierarchies are not our thing and access is something we make sure of across the board. We are a family where everyone is just as important, everyone’s work is seen, and ideas valued.