Senior Key Account Manager (Paris, FR)

Role overview:

We are seeking a motivated and dynamic person to join our Key Account Management team. You will play a crucial role in satisfying, retaining, cross-selling, and upselling to our valued customers. Picture yourself as the conductor of an orchestra, harmonizing various departments and stakeholders to ensure a seamless and positive customer experience.

What you'll do:

• Commercial Focus: most KAM time must be dedicated to commercial activities such as identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities, negotiating contracts, and meeting booking quotas, in order to drive revenue growth and profitability. Collaborate with global peers to maximize revenue potential.
• Customer Satisfaction: Serve as the central point of contact, understanding customer needs, challenges and objectives, and ensuring a seamless experience.
• Support: Provide while primarily commercial, KAM also provide vital support to customers, addressing concerns and coordinating with Ops teams who are ultimately in charge of defining and implementing effective solutions.
• Collaboration: KAM collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Support, Pre-sales, Solution, Implementation, Finance, Marketing, and Executive Sponsors. Their role is to facilitate communication and alignment accross these departments to solve potential issues and meet customer demands effectively.
• Customer Advocacy: Articulate customer needs and pain points to communicate to internal teams, drive improvements in service and product offerings.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Retention: manage a portfolio of named accounts, creating individualized account plans. Retain the portfolio and avoid any churn.
• Performance monitoring: monitor customer performance and coordinate resolutions for discrepancies
• Revenue ramp: track and maximize revenue ramp against forecasts for new accounts/products/services or any cross-sell or upsell booking
• Upsell & Cross-sell bookings
• Maintain updated customer information in Salesforce and other repositories.

Who You Are:

• Minimum 3 years as Internal Sales role or Account Manager roles with the desire to grow
• Strong communication, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills. The candidate also needs to embody Planet values and culture, as they represent our organization to our customers.
• A "growth and collaboration” mindset, focused on building trust and growing business through support and relationship-building in order to extend Planet services to more locations and/or countries.
• Proven experience in sales or business development within the Retail payment industry is highly valued. This includes knowledge of payment processing, financial technologies, regulatory frameworks and understanding the dynamics of the global payment ecosystem.
• Fluent English and French speaker

Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce. We would love to hear from you – Apply now.

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