Manager, Account Management

Kochi, Kerala Birdeye

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Why Birdeye?

Birdeye is the highest-rated reputation, social media, and customer experience platform for local businesses and brands. Over 150,000 businesses use Birdeye’s AI-powered platform to effortlessly manage online reputation, connect with prospects through social media and digital channels, and gain customer experience insights to grow sales and thrive.


At Birdeye, innovation isn't just a goal – it's our driving force. Our commitment to pushing boundaries and redefining industry standards has earned us accolades as one of the foremost providers of AI, Reputation Management, Social Media, and Customer Experience software by G2.


Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, Birdeye is led by a team of industry experts and innovators from Google, Amazon, Salesforce, and Yahoo. Birdeye is backed by the who’s who of Silicon Valley - Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Trinity Ventures, World Innovation Lab, and Accel-KKR.


Position Overview

As a Manager of Upsells at Birdeye,, your role is to lead a team of sales professionals and drive revenue growth by maximizing upsell opportunities with existing customers. You will work closely with the sales team, customer success managers, and other cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, develop strategies, and execute upselling initiatives. Your goal will be to increase the adoption and usage of additional features, modules, or upgrades within the SaaS product offerings, ultimately contributing to increased customer satisfaction and revenue generation.


Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership:

  • Manage and lead a team of upsell sales representatives, providing guidance, coaching, and support to achieve individual and team targets.
  • Set performance goals and objectives for the team, monitor progress, and provide regular feedback and performance evaluations.


Upsell Strategy Development:

  • Collaborate with the sales leadership and product teams to develop effective upsell strategies and identify target customer segments.
  • Analyze market trends, customer behavior, and competitor offerings to identify upsell opportunities and tailor strategies accordingly.
  • Define pricing strategies, discounts, and incentives to maximize upsell conversions while maintaining profitability.


Customer Engagement and Relationship Building:

  • Collaborate with customer success teams to identify and prioritize upsell opportunities based on customer usage patterns, needs, and feedback.
  • Engage directly with key customers to understand their requirements, challenges, and goals to position relevant upsell options effectively.
  • Build strong relationships with existing customers to enhance customer loyalty and advocacy, fostering long-term partnerships.


Upsell Execution and Performance Tracking:

  • Develop and implement upsell processes, workflows, and tools to streamline the upsell lifecycle, from identification to close.
  • Monitor and analyze sales data, conversion rates, and other key metrics to measure the effectiveness of upsell strategies and identify areas for improvement.
  • Provide regular reports and updates to senior management on upsell performance, revenue growth, and market trends.


Cross-functional Collaboration:

  • Collaborate with marketing teams to develop targeted upsell campaigns, collateral, and materials to support sales efforts.
  • Work closely with product management and development teams to understand product roadmaps, feature enhancements, and new offerings to drive upsell opportunities.
  • Coordinate with customer support teams to address customer inquiries, concerns, and technical issues related to upsells.


Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field. MBA or relevant advanced degree is a plus.
  • Proven experience in sales or account management, preferably in the SaaS industry, with a track record of successful upselling and revenue growth.
  • Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire a sales team to achieve targets.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with customers and internal stakeholders.
  • Analytical mindset, with the ability to analyze sales data, market trends, and customer behavior to drive effective upsell strategies.
  • Familiarity with CRM systems and sales tools to track and manage customer interactions and sales pipelines.
  • Results-driven with a focus on achieving and exceeding upsell targets while maintaining customer satisfaction.
  • Adaptability and flexibility to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.
  • Successful candidate will report in US time zone (6:30pm -3:30am IST)


Note: The above job description is a general outline of the responsibilities and

qualifications typically associated with this role. Actual job duties may vary

depending on the organization and industry practices.


Why You’ll Join Us

At Birdeye, we know that our success is tied to our customers’ success, so we are continually raising the bar for ourselves and others around us to deliver meaningful results.


We seek to innovate and to be the #1 product in our category, which means we need to drive results for our customers and to always deliver what we commit. Our quality needs to be world-class and second to none, so we are exceptionally hands-on to get work done. We roll up our sleeves and DO.


Working at Birdeye means being part of a tight-knit family that helps you succeed

and loves to celebrate with you! We find strength in diversity and inclusion, so we

strive to find different points of view and expect everyone to represent their authentic

self at all times.

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Functional Account Manager - Functional Account Management Team

Kochi, Kerala EY

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At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. 

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. 

Join EY and help to build a better working world. 

Job Title: Functional Account manager (Functional Account Management Team)

Job Summary:

Talent Service & delivery is a core service function within the Talent Delivery Function providing Talent services across the portfolio including External Workforce office, Talent Service Delivery and Experience, People Listening, Talent Mergers and acquisitions and Talent Compliance and ISQM. The Functional Account Management Team are part of the Talent Service Delivery and Experience Function whose primary objective is to ensure an exceptional experience for all users of EYs Talent services including Recruitment, onboarding support, core HR support, learning administration support and digital talent services.

Talent Service & delivery support the delivery of Talent Services to EY member firms globally in partnership with internal Region and Function Talent, as well as through Vendors who deliver services from a number of offshore locations.

The Functional Account Management Team’s (FAMTs) key purpose is to manage the relationship between vendors and EY member firms, ensuring effective delivery of EY Talent Services and achievement of EY’s SLAs and quality standards. Leveraging a deep understanding of service delivery best practice as well as HR functional expertise, they work closely with both vendors and member firms to ensure work is delivered in alignment with agreed processes, manage and resolve issues/escalations and support opportunities to optimize and improve services. This role works closely with Talent Service delivery leadership and Global Talent function leadership to address key issues, identify trends, ensure ongoing review of metrics and standards, ensure alignment to global roadmaps and represent the Service Delivery perspective in Functional initiatives. They also work closely with Supply Chain services to ensure vendors meet contractual performance obligations and manage change requests.

Focus: The FAMT role may be aligned to a specific Talent Function(s) or Region(s) depending on need.

Key Interactions: Talent Service & delivery Leadership, Region Talent Leadership, Talent Function Leadership, Supply Chain services, Vendor Service Delivery teams

Key Responsibilities:

The Functional account management Team (FAMT) provides dedicated support to EY Region Member firms, providing relationship management and facilitating the effective delivery of Talent services by vendors for EY. The FAMT role provides a broad spectrum of support from the transition of processes to vendors, overseeing vendor-led transformation initiatives, management of process-related change requests and facilitating issue management and conflict resolution between vendors and functions/regions. More detail on the role’s responsibilities are outlined below:

Functional Account Manager:

Functional governance – Provide governance re presenting Global Talent Functions across Regions supported:

  • Review process related change requests (from Global and Region) to ensure alignment to global process model, best practice / experience impacts and effort / FTE impact estimation
  • Drive alignment to EY processes across locations
  • Facilitate review of vendor driven process improvement ideas with Global Function teams
  • Facilitate/ oversee transition of processes to BAU
  • Work with vendor, Regions, functions on review and implementation of vendor delivery-led transformation initiatives
  • Review and sign off on Work Instruction changes
  • EY driven Talent Transformation initiative - Work with EY project teams, functions, and product owners in implementing Enterprise Transformation Initiatives:

  • Act as SMR for Talent service delivery during design phase (current state and future state design)
  • Support review of operational impacts / FTE impact for EY led changes
  • Consult and provide insights on potential impacts for change mgmt. and communications
  • Consult on testing activities and scenarios
  • Support vendor appointed representatives to ensure effective execution
  • Escalation point where there are concerns relating to vendor participation
  • Ensure vendor appropriately executes on required communications and change management plans
  • Provide oversight to vendor during training of service delivery teams
  • Support transition activities to ensure effective transition to BAU
  • Transition management – support the transition of processes to vendor:

  • Act as SMR and consult on planning and design of transition of work to vendor
  • Support knowledge transfer and testing activities
  • Ensure smooth transition to BAU state
  • Stakeholder relationships – manage relationship between EY Talent and vendors;

  • Act as account manager, supporting EY Talent stakeholders in navigating vendor structure, processes and relationships.
  • Work with the US Talent and Talent functions to identify and address trends, working with the relevant teams
  • Contract Management:

  • Liaise with EY vendor management team on contract performance and functional roadmap
  • Act as advocate for talent regarding change requests and facilitate talent governance process on behalf of vendor.
  • Periodic review of quality measures and performance standards.
  • Issue Resolution:

  • Facilitate issue management and conflict resolution between vendor and EY functions/regions.
  • Level 3 escalation focal for functional service delivery issues
  • Ensure vendor provides a root cause analysis and completes all agreed corrective and preventive actions for Data Privacy Incidents (including review of RCAs)
  • Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

    Business acumen

  • Ability to quickly grasp complex business problems, develop a logical/rational framework for investigating the problems
  • Technical knowledge

  • Expertise on Human Resources
  • Experience on leading offshore/outsource transition and operations
  • Strong MS Excel, Data Analytics and reporting skills
  • Flexible operation

  • Comfort in a rapidly changing environment with competing and shifting priorities
  • The ability to deal with and manage uncertainty and incomplete information
  • High learning agility
  • Communication and project management

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent presentation skills using various media/platforms
  • Ability to coordinate multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously
  • Ability to work well in a high performing, fast-paced team environment
  • High degree of professionalism and integrity
  • Problem Solving/Conceptual Thinking

  • Knowledge, skills and abilities needed to establish and refine the strategies that drive organizational performance and add value to the business, with ability to assess the commercial viability of data analysis and research
  • Driving Results

  • Excellent organization, analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to perform and manage multiple tasks simultaneously and work well under pressure and with time constraints.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills
  • Global business acumen including knowledge, skills and abilities concerning global business fundamentals, business models, ethics, competitive analysis and cross cultural/geographical sensitivities
  • Other Requirements:

  • Occasional travel will be required for global meetings
  • Frequent meetings with others across global time zones will require some calls to be made outside of standard business hours
  • Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Experience:

  • 5 years+ experience in service delivery, operational excellence, HR Process or shared services for a multinational organization
  • At least 5 years of experience in a managerial position, involving strategic operations, planning and execution of global KPIs
  • Experience in building high performing teams across generations, cultures and locations
  • Experience across client/internal projects, focused on the development, improvement and deployment of products or tools including change management.
  • Experience in transitioning and / or setting up new roles from the onshore organization to offshore centers.
  • Proven track record of working with a senior stakeholder population and demonstrating customer centricity.
  • Experience working
  • EY | Building a better working world

    EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

    Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

    EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

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