
Manager - Customer Account Management Team Ireland
- Ireland
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide leadership, direction and vision to the account management team and ensure that the team achieves its key revenue and customer retention targets.
- Proactively manage the up sell and cross sell activity undertaken by the team to existing customers. This activity will include but not be limited to the additional sales of DCC, Security Products, add locations, e-commerce gateways and additional card types.
- Responsible for executing and reporting on the performance of the account management team and team KPIs.
- Lead a cross divisional effort of all key business areas including Credit & Risk, Operations & Customer Service, Finance, Marketing, Fraud, Legal, P&P and Sales to minimise customer, revenue and volume attrition across the entire region.
- Lead selected European CAM initiatives and work streams and drive innovation, digital adoption, increase in efficiency.
- Use proven account management strategies to improve customer loyalty and increase customer longevity. Define strategy for portfolio allocation and participate in defining re-price strategies.
- Work across internal and external stakeholders to continuously improve our customer experience in a manner which ensures increased profitable revenue.
- Liaison with key stakeholders within SME, Corporate and Partner segments, in particular with leads of Sales and Bank Alliance environments.
- Overseeing performance of Hybrid Account Management model
- Identify and monitor market trends and competitor activity in order to gain competitive advantage and create plans which enable the team to quickly take advantage of opportunities that are presented.
- Take full responsibility for up to 10 team members.
- Be actively involved in developing and coaching those within the team to achieve their own ambitions and those of the company.
- Build a succession plan which ensures business continuity.
- An ability to coach and create a winning culture
- Ability to manage through difficult situations in a manner which ensures the business achieves its goals.
- Knowledge of the value add services available in the acquiring space is a plus.
- A proven ability to achieve success through a management team both direct and in a matrix management structure.
- A proven track record of selling multi products and services within an existing account base
- Expert level of knowledge of customer lifecycle and gaining customer loyalty
- Proven ability of recognising and developing talent
- An ability to analyse and make sense of large amounts of information to determine which opportunities will yield the best return
- A proven ability of striving for continuous improvement
- Well developed account management / customer service /relationship skills
- A good negotiator who negotiates to win / win outcomes
- A self starter who uses their own initiative to ensure that they achieve the organisations goals.
- Bachelor degree in economics / business or similar
- 3-5 years of management experience
- 2+ years of banking/financial services experience is a plus
- A proven track record of leading teams to success
- A proven track record of increasing value through selling of additional value added services and deploying succesful retention strategies to increase the customer life cycle.
- Knowledge of Salesforce CRM system is a plus