Acxiom

VP Client Partner

Acxiom$160K — $200K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; minimum 10 years in relevant fields.
  • Proven record of managing large, complex accounts, especially within Retail and Commerce sectors.
  • Demonstrated success in closing large deals, particularly in high-pressure settings.
  • Extensive experience in consultative relationship-based selling and solution selling techniques.
  • Strong acumen in financial and business management, including drafting and reviewing contracts.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver high-quality work on time and according to client commitments.
  • Achieve revenue and profitability targets within designated accounts.
  • Identify and capitalize on new revenue opportunities, focusing on account growth.
  • Enhance client relationships by aligning business needs with Acxiom’s offerings.
  • Establish revenue forecasts in collaboration with senior leadership.
  • Maintain comprehensive records of sales and revenue activities in Salesforce.
  • Lead contract negotiations and facilitate client engagement team efforts.

Benefits

  • Access to a dynamic work environment in a fast-paced industry.
  • High potential for career advancement due to the strategic nature of the role.
  • Opportunity to work closely with senior leadership and high-profile clients.
  • Chance to significantly influence growth in a rapidly evolving sector.
Full Job Description
VP, Client Partner, Commerce owns the relationships with multiple of Acxiom’s strategic high growth accounts. Oversees and maintains a consultative relationship with the client, acting as the primary contact and partner for all Acxiom products and services. Responsible for maintaining excellent client communication at all levels of the organization. Works closely with the client to regularly review account and solution performance, identifying and communicating opportunities for additional Acxiom support. Finally, they are responsible for developing the business by identifying and selling additional services within the Acxiom product portfolio.

WE NEED:

  • Revenue Driver:Ability to contribute to the generation of revenue proactively and strategically for an organization. Revenue drivers possess the skills and knowledge needed to identify, create, and seize opportunities that lead to increased sales, income, and profitability.
  • Consultation:Ability to engage with others in a collaborative and client-focused manner to understand their needs, provide expert advice, and offer solutions that address those needs effectively. A consultative approach involves active listening, problem-solving, and the ability to build trust-based relationships with clients, customers, or colleagues.
  • Client Advocate:Represent and champion the interests, needs, and concerns of clients or customers within an organization. A client advocate serves as a dedicated liaison, ensuring that clients' expectations are met, their issues are addressed, and their overall experience is positive and satisfactory.
  • Relationship Builder:Ability to initiate, develop, nurture, and maintain positive and meaningful connections with others, whether they are colleagues, clients, customers, stakeholders, or external partners. Those with strong relationship-building skills excel in establishing rapport, trust, and mutual respect, which are essential for effective collaboration and achieving common goals.
  • Industry Expertise:Comprehensive knowledge and deep understanding of a specific industry or sector. Those with industry expertise possess specialized insights, insights, and a nuanced understanding of the market dynamics, trends, challenges, regulations, and competitive landscape within their chosen industry.

WHAT WILL YOU DO:

  • Consistently deliverhigh qualitywork on time and against commitments.
  • Achieves revenue run rate and incremental growth targets, profitability targets, and other sales related goals within named book of accounts.
  • Proactively identifies new revenue opportunities and drives account growth and profitability acceleration including new business, up-sell, and cross-sell opportunities.
  • Develops and improves client relationships by providing consultation and expertise: aligning client business needs to Acxiom products, solutions, and services.
  • With Senior Leadership Team, establish annual and monthly revenue and bookings forecasts.
  • Meets and exceeds revenue targets, and other sales and revenue related goals.
  • Responsible for managing within salesforce all records of sales, revenue, and other key account information.
  • Creates and maintains appropriate, well-managed pipeline.
  • Proactively monitors account(s) and determines avenues for account growth.
  • Creates value and differentiates Acxiom services and products from competitors.
  • Consults with client on new use cases and capabilities to enable organic growth (including decision engines, digital enablement, analytics, channel expansion, etc.) 
  • Leads or facilitates contract negotiations for new business and renewals.
  • Escalation points for status, issues, problems, and feedback to client/stakeholders and teams
  • Negotiate contracts on behalf of company.
  • Lead client-facing and internal troubleshooting efforts
  • Work closely with delivery team managers helping support overall business strategy.
  • Work closely with our agency partners to develop and support overall account strategy.
  • Lead Engagement Team for client renewals

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

  • Requires a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience
  • In the absence of a bachelor's degree, relevant experience of an equivalent time will be considered.
  • Experience managing large complex accounts.
  • Solution selling experience in Retailand Commerce, technology and data
  • Demonstrated success closing large complex deals.
  • Experience and temperament working in high-pressure, fast-paced environments.
  • History calling on all levels of client organizations, including senior level executives.
  • Ability to articulate and provide example of an understanding of a comprehensive sales process.
  • Strong domain expertise in demand creation, lead generation through business prospecting.
  • Fundamental understanding of technology, managed service offerings and the changing digital landscape to articulate Acxiom value and drive new opportunities.
  • Ability to draft and review contracts.
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Financial and Business acumen
  • Conversational style and ability to ask relevant questions (Solution Selling).
  • Strong history of successful consultative, relationship-based selling

WHAT WILL SET YOU APART:

  • Fifteen (15) + years of relevant experience. In the absence of a bachelor's degree, relevant experience of an equivalent time will be considered.
  • Expert industry knowledge.
  • Multi-functional leadership experience (Consulting, BPO, General Management, etc.)
  • Experience in Marketing and Marketing Technologies, including data insights, analytics, and digital marketing experience.
  • Deep knowledge of digital ad tech ecosystem
  • Deep knowledge ofomni-channelad targeting platforms and technology
  • Deep knowledge of the application of consumer and behavioral data in ad tech
  • Proven track record of meeting/exceeding goals involving add-on deals and maintaining install base in large, complex organizations.
  • Proven success in managing clients with multiple lines of business.
  • Ability to map technology solutions to solve business problems or advance business goals.
  • Demonstrating resilience and creativity to gain commitments over challenging sales cycles.
  • Experience with large sales targets

Primary Location City/State:

New York, New York

Additional Locations (if applicable):

About Acxiom

Acxiom is a technology and services company that provides marketing, advertising, and data management solutions to businesses. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Conway, Arkansas. Acxiom's services include customer data integration, marketing analytics, and consulting services. The company's products include Audience Cloud, which provides data management and audience targeting solutions, and IdentityLink, which provides identity resolution and linking capabilities. Acxiom serves clients in a variety of industries, including financial services, retail, and healthcare. The company has operations in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
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