Elsevier
Account Manager, Life Science
🇺🇸 Hybrid - SC
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Customer Success
🗓️ February 21st, 2025
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Elsevier is hiring an Account Manager, Life Science. The role focuses on driving the expansion of the Research Intelligence business through new sales and growth of existing accounts. The Account Manager will provide customer support and value-added services to ensure customer retention while building relationships to identify sales opportunities for new and additional solutions products.
Highlights
- Drive expansion of Research Intelligence business and secure new sales.
- Provide customer support for retention and renewal of accounts.
- Experience with consultative sales in Life Science solutions.
- Experience partnering with Academic & Research institutions.
- Compensation includes health, retirement, and family benefits.
- Experience with scientific databases and solutions sales.
- Expertise in strategic account planning and consultative selling.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills required.
- Flexible working hours and wellbeing initiatives provided.
Account Manager, Life Science Full Description
Account Manager, Life Science
South Carolina
Do you have consultative sales experience, with Life Science solutions?
Do you have experience partnering with Academic & Research institutions?
About our Team
Our customers are Researchers, Librarians, Research Leaders, and executive administrators at Academic, Federal Government, and other research institutions. The ideal candidate should possess knowledge of scientific research, trends in research and higher education. Also have a positive mindset about helping our audiences achieve their research and education goals.
About the Role
Your primary focus will be to drive the expansion of our Research Intelligence business by securing new sales and fostering the growth of existing Life Science accounts. You will provide excellent customer support and value-added services to ensure retention and renewal of our customers. You will build and manage relationships to identify opportunities for sales of new and additional Solutions products.
Your primary focus will be to drive the expansion of our Research Intelligence business by securing new sales and fostering the growth of existing Life Science accounts. You will provide excellent customer support and value-added services to ensure retention and renewal of our customers. You will build and manage relationships to identify opportunities for sales of new and additional Solutions products.
Responsibilities
- Achieving overall revenue targets for a portfolio of scientific databases and solutions. Including Solutions Products and Content Licensing.
- Understanding client needs in a consultative approach. Translating into realistic propositions and packages in support of the company sales strategy. Working closely with regional and federal government agencies to develop projects for scientific databases and solutions.
- Formulating focused strategies tailored towards the market; align sales approach to meet market needs in accordance with company policies. Devising and implementing account strategies to address differentiated needs at all levels of accounts.
- Conducting annual account planning and execution (jointly with Account Manager where required). Ensure Salesforce is always up to date. Reviewing sales results and forecasts e.g. via Clari and other sales enablement tools and adjust actions accordingly.
- Gathering, monitoring and evaluating competitor information and providing market feedback to the business to enhance product development and Go-To-Market strategy. Including Providing market feedback to enhance product development for a more customer-focused product.
- Participating in trade shows and conferences, with agreed outcomes.
- Developing and maintaining relationships with all relevant decision makers and influencers at the customer level to support Elsevier’s strategic objectives.
- Integrating and processing information derived from current projects, customers, market awareness and technical knowledge.
Requirements
- Experience at senior levels in sales, account management or similar.
- Able to operate on an operational, tactical and strategic level.
- Have a proven track record selling technology and solutions.
- Be self-motivated and driven and love building relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders. (e.g. senior levels)
- Experience in building out (expanding) business with a customer and in strategic account planning. You can connect the dots within customer’s institutions.
- Experience and knowledge of specific Life Science solution areas and background in complex solution-sales approach. (“Consultative selling.”) Experience working in or with research administration and management functions. Having knowledge in regional or national research programs, collaboration networks, and key leaders.
- Have exceptional communication (verbal and written) and presentation skills.
- Experience selling enterprise software and working in an international matrixed organization.
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave and study assistance, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
- Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
Working for you
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
About the Business
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals’ advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
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