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Tuesday 30 June 2015

News Agency Account Manager at Thomson Reuters

Job Position: News Agency Account Manager                                                           Location: Lagos

Job description

Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest independent multimedia news provider, reaching more than one billion people every day. Over 2,600 journalists in nearly 190 locations around the globe deliver unparalleled international and national news coverage in 17 languages with speed, impartiality and insight to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world’s media organizations and directly to consumers on Reuters.com.  Reuters stays true to the letter and spirit of the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles, ensuring independence, integrity and freedom from bias.


PURPOSE
  • Maintains and Develops client relationships to ultimately drive revenue growth
  • Executes and develops and  account strategy by collaborating with account team to deliver stronger, more relevant value proposition
  • Manages and grows revenue and market share at designated accounts to maximize customer satisfaction and achieve company's strategic objectives

RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Supports execution of strategy at account level
  • Works with and brings in experts onto the team where required, has oversight of all account activities
  • Responsible for forecasting, keeps management in touch with accounts in a timely fashion, gathers intelligence on competitor activity, and gives feedback to marketing.
  • Acts as point of contact for the client, provides escalation path to and from Service, attends to customer issues promptly
  • Tracks customer activity in internal systems in order to execute on account strategy and identify additional opportunitiesMay provide customer product training as necessary
  • Accountable for individual expense budget management
  • Manages, retains and grows revenue, responsible for sales and the customer relationship
  • Cultivates customer relationships and ensures effective service delivery to accounts
  • Focuses on customer's satisfaction, knows the customer's business and workflows, develops proper contact network within accounts

THE SCOPE & IMPACT
  • Owns account relationship and drives overall revenue growth and customer satisfaction for accounts under management
  • Responsible for debt management, net sales and revenue for accounts under management
  • Works under general supervision of manager

 Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor degree Accounting
  • Strong understanding of business models, customers needs and workflows
  • Excellent relationship building skills
  • Selling skills (identity, develop and articulate a complex proposition/consultative selling).
  • Strong negotiation skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills, ability to develop and execute a sales plan, ability to use a variety of technology with a high level of proficiency
  • Problem solving; ability to understand, articulate, structure and solve client needs
  • Presentation and communication skills; ability to deliver presentations and communicate at all levels within an organization
  • Ability to collaborate across teams and within a culturally diverse organization
  • Very fluent in English and French
  • Knowledge of Salesforce or equivalent CRM system with ability to forecast and create a steady pipeline

  • Several years of successful sales experience preferably in the Media market, good knowledge of traditional and multimedia markets. 
  • Knowledge of financial markets and products is a plus.
Method Of Application

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