<p><strong>Entrepreneurial Director of Strategic Accounts</strong></p>
<p><strong>About the Role</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You will help design and implement Strategic Account Management strategy at Brightidea to grow revenue with a key group of named accounts. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">You will be responsible for driving customer success. The role requires solid relationship building skills coupled with an ability to think strategically. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Your interactions with the customer will represent the Brightidea culture and create value for customers which will ultimately drive revenue.</span></p>
<p><strong>Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:</strong></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work closely with senior executives to design and implement Strategic Account Management strategy</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Own overall relationship with your portfolio of customers; identify and partner with key customer stakeholders to ensure alignment between their business and priorities and Brightidea.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lead key partnership initiatives including quarterly business reviews, ongoing checkpoints, and escalations as needed</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build fundamental account plans, operational strategy and drive revenue growth</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identify opportunities for up-selling and expand Brightidea’s revenue</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work closely with internal Brightidea teams such as Legal, Sales Operations, Customer Success and the Implementation teams</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identify close conversion and cross sell opportunities to maximize the penetration rate for additional products and services into the existing enterprise client base</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leverage relationships with Innovation decision-makers in one division or location across different divisions to sell into another</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use CRM to: optimize your productivity, accurately forecast, and transparently communicate sales metrics and customer information</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be the expert in Brightidea offerings and stay on top of industry trends within the Innovation Management space</span></li>
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<p><strong>What You Need to Succeed</strong></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">10+ years in an enterprise commercial, strategic client success, account management role</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">5+ years enterprise software</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience interacting with and building relationships with C-Level stakeholders within Named Accounts</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strong track record and history of carrying and exceeding targets</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Account planning and execution skills</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strong time management skills</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proven consultative sales solution skills, including the ability to articulate clear and concise value statements</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities, and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative, and team-oriented environment</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proven ability to systematically develop, drive and close business opportunities</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creativity and flexibility to drive sales strategies into existing accounts</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thoughtfulness – the ability to know what the customer needs before they know they need it</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Track record of building and maintaining long term relationships with customers</span></li>
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<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Helping large companies innovate isn’t easy, but it is vital. Vital to creating new jobs, vital to igniting growth, vital to ensuring a safe, healthy and prosperous future for billions around the globe.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But, innovation at large companies is a mess. Employees often have lots of ideas to improve the business, but, with no formal process, their ideas go unheard, and they eventually give up trying to make a difference. Corporate innovation teams are expected to support a growing list of activities but have historically lacked strong tools designed for the job. Executives, despite having millions to invest, live in fear of disruption, and still have no idea where their “next big idea” will come from, or if it will come at all.</span></p>
<p><strong>Our Company & Culture</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are a tight-knit, entrepreneurial minded team of self-starters who show up every day with a singular mission: to transform the way the world innovates. Our primary focus this year is to continue to add exceptionally talented and motivated individuals to the Brightidea team. We are ambitious, bold, highly-collaborative, focused, and we aim to win. We take a humble approach to changing the way corporate R&D teams run innovation challenges.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anyone joining our company will have the opportunity to shape the culture and be an integral part of setting it up for long term success. If you identify with being humble, T-shaped, and relentlessly resourceful then this could be the perfect team for you to shine in.</span></p>
<p><strong>Compensation</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">$150,000 - $350,000 OTE depending on size of quota</span></p>