Relationship Manager, Key Accounts - Sales Solutions – Financial Services - job 1 of 2

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

This role will be based in New York City, Chicago, or San Francisco. 

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what's best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

LinkedIn's Sales Solutions team is dedicated to changing the world of sales through the use of Sales Navigator, our flagship product that connects and builds mutually beneficial relationships between buyers and sellers. 

As a Relationship Manager in Key Accounts, you will help orchestrate, in a small team, the expanding footprints of our largest and most strategic clients and use your strategic selling skills to consult and educate prospective buyers on the benefits and value of these platforms for their sales, sales operations, sales enablement, and marketing departments. You will serve as one of their trusted advisors, share insights, build business cases, develop deep relationships, and seek opportunities for growth to make your customers as inspired, delighted, and successful as possible.

Responsibilities:

• Learn about LinkedIn’s platform, products and associated tools (e.g. SFDC)
• Effectively communicate the LinkedIn Sales Solutions value proposition and elevator pitch to inspire your clients to embrace a new method of connecting value to customers
• Make discovery calls and confirm meetings with key decision-makers that will generate revenue
• Create a pipeline of reasonable opportunities and reliable forecasts in a transparent manner
• Develop and execute strategic plans for the territory that will evolve and improve our sales process
• Listen to the needs of the market and educate the product and marketing team
• Work within a small account team to help manage cross-functional resources to support customer requests
• Deliver, and preferably exceed, against quarterly and annual revenue targets

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of relevant sales experience
• 3+ years of experience managing Enterprise accounts in net new and expansion environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years in quota carrying roles selling Enterprise SaaS solutions, CRM platforms or software product solutions, or complex solutions
• Experience in the financial services industry
• BA/BS Degree 
• Experience with SaaS sales
• Experience in relationship management speaking to C-level users
• Experience with business development across various geographies
• Proven history of overachieving quota and driving results in a high-growth company environment
• Excellent communication, negotiation, analytical and forecasting skills
• Possess deep relationships with senior sales leadership
• Demonstrated ability to find, manage and close high-level business sales
• Ability to use competitive selling to position company products against direct and indirect competitors
• Ability to gather and use data to inform decision making and persuade others
• Ability to assess business opportunities, read prospective buyers and develop compelling strategies.

Suggested Skills:

• Selling
• Influencing
• Negotiating

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. 

The pay range for this role is $151,000 to $230,000 OE. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.  

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits. 

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