Senior Client Partner
Horizontal Digital
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Directly lead and manage a portfolio of multiple accounts, typically $5-10M
- Build advisory relationships that result in business impact and revenue growth:
- Ability to understand our client’s business challenges and guide them to appropriately using the Horizontal methodology and solutions to drive business impact.
- Ability to network within a client organization; create, own and expand the senior and executive relationships within a clients’ organization.
- Ability to conduct and create opportunities for advisory conversations through the power of industry thought leadership, application of relevant case studies and best practices, and compelling business insights.
- Own the 360-degree view of our clients (their organization, remit, reporting structure, goals, and financing).
- Lead client mapping activities — ensuring client relationships are nurtured with the ideal personnel from Horizontal.
- Foster internal curiosity with our clients’ business, experience, technology and brand goals amongst the Horizontal team.
- Lead the successful onboarding of Horizontal to client and client to Horizontal, including project kickoff and a seamless transition to delivery leadership.
- Leverage your industry expertise to guide clients through the myriad of solutions and opportunities to ensure clients have the opportunity to make confident, informed decisions.
- Oversee customer satisfaction measurement for your portfolio of accounts and guide teams through improvement strategies when applicable.
- Partial billability (25-50%) when doing hands on strategy or delivery work.
- Drive organic growth and ensure account-level profitability:
- Ability to author and execute a strategic plan for each of your accounts, articulating, pursuing and landing opportunities to expand Horizontal’s footprint within the client organization.
- Ability to build stewardship with clients, acting as their strategic consultant, solidifying relationships and ensuring profitable YoY growth.
- Manage revenue closely, ensure all opportunities are accurately reflected and forecasted, and uphold annual commitments.
- Lead scope definition across multiple complex client accounts – including shaping ambiguous asks into proposals and contracts, including defendable statements of work, but with a focus on achieving mutually beneficial outcomes for client and consultancy.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of the Horizontal service offerings and partnerships to enable cross selling across capabilities and solutions — creating sustainable and diverse portfolios.
- Form strong partnerships with internal Horizontal capability teams:
- Inspire and support delivery excellence while representing the client voice to ensure we are meeting client expectations and driving outcomes.
- Partner on new business efforts in order to bring your industry expertise to set up new engagements for success.
- Partner with delivery and operations to ensure forecasts are clean and accurate.
- Produce case studies with capabilities teams to highlight business value delivered to our clients.
Requirements
- Exemplary stakeholder management and communication skills
- Proven experience in growing key and growth clients, of $5M+
- Ability to define and drive strategic vision and orchestrate and create consensus around ideas, concepts to then drive outcomes.
- Strong leadership and communication skills: ability to lead meetings and presentations with senior clients, as well as inspire, organize and create consensus around ideas, concepts and approaches internally.
- Experience in Healthcare, Financial Services, Travel & Hospitality, Manufacturing and/or CPG vertical preferred
- Industry expertise and experience for your relevant industry focus area.
- Experience with Salesforce (Marketing Cloud, Einstein Analytics, Experience Cloud, Core) and Sitecore, Optimizely, Contentstack and/or other composable DXP preferred.
- Strong financial acumen: skilled in forecasting and revenue management
- Bachelor's degree and minimum of 10 years of experience in a digital agency, consultancy or digital product development environment.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
stakeholder managementstrategic planningrevenue managementforecastingclient mappingbusiness impact analysiscase study developmentproposal writingcontract negotiationonboarding
Soft skills
communicationleadershiprelationship buildingorganizational skillsinspirationconsensus buildingcuriosityadvisory skillsclient advocacyproblem-solving