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Account Manager, Partner Success Vacation Rentals, Italy
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Ireland - Dublin
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Commercial
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Full-Time Regular
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11/28/2024
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ID # R-92748-1
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Account Manager, Partner Success Vacation Rentals, Italy
Grows a segment of the portfolio of accounts by managing them directly or contributing to deepening those partnerships. Analyzes business and operational performance to find opportunities for optimization. Handles service delivery for active accounts, communicating technical and operational impacts as needed. Ensures execution of account strategies and shares best practices across teams and regions.
What you'll do:
Builds relationships with customers account team, including key buyers/decision makers
Assists in creating opportunities (e.g., progress meetings, fact-finding/exploratory meetings) to build customer account
Understands and reports a customer’s business issues through appropriate organization channels
Recommends products, services, and insights that meet customer's needs
Builds relationships with customer's account team, including key buyers/decision makers
Assists in creating opportunities (e.g., progress meetings, fact-finding/exploratory meetings) to build customer's account
Understands and reports customer’s business issues through appropriate organization channels
Acquires a good understanding of how the department operates and fits into the larger organization
Demonstrates awareness of the policies, practices, trends, and information (including competitor) that impact the organization and its customers
Demonstrates good understanding of the financial impact of decisions/solutions on the organization and its customers
Documents components of a business case for change at the direction of more senior colleagues as needed
Acquires and maintains a working knowledge of financial data and the company’s standard contract terms and conditions by reading product literature, contracts, and asking questions of peers
Learns the contract negotiation process and how to complete contractual arrangements
Exchanges nuanced information to build consensus
Able to handle key objections with ease and proactively seeks help from a manager when needed to address areas of difference and ensure agreements among all parties
Conducts straightforward cost, benefit, and risk analyses of possible solutions and the implications not reaching an agreement
Identifies and actively engages stakeholders in decision making and strategies to benefit account and organization. Closes deals effectively
Understands standard offerings and major areas of expertise
Builds a working knowledge of products, technologies, offerings, etc., within scope of responsibility
Develops an understanding of competitors’ standard products and services
Demonstrates insightful application of products, technologies, and offerings to account
Demonstrates the importance of maintaining ongoing business relationships with colleagues and external customers
Strategically builds relationships to support total portfolio and organization needs
Develops understanding of customer's industry and competitive market
Attends meetings with customers to understand needs and expectations
Learns the metrics to assess the performance of products, services, and solutions against customer needs/expectations
Develops key value proposition statements, case studies, etc., to demonstrate the value of the company’s products, services, and solutions
Who you are:
2+ years for Bachelor's, 0-2 years for Master's Degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
Proficiency in English + Italian
Effective communicator
Proficient in sales techniques
Portfolio management, relationship account management, upselling, and cross-selling
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