Account Manager, Partner Success Vacation Rentals, Italy
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.
Responsibilities:
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 of 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.
* Develops an understanding of customers' 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.
* Experience in portfolio management, relationship account management, upselling, and cross-selling.
Accommodation requests
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
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