Job Description
Responsibilities
- Manages and nurtures operational business relationships of top-tier accounts, providing both strategic and operational insights.
- Serves as the primary escalation point for complex operational issues, leading cross-functional teams to resolve these challenges in alignment with customer and partner needs.
- Takes the lead in conducting comprehensive business analyses, identifying risks, and guiding the development of effective solutions.
- Advocates for customer and partner needs, offering critical business insights for strategic projects and providing recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Leads high-level operational performance reviews with customers and partners, driving the development and execution of improvement plans.
- Provides expert guidance on complex strategic operational matters to internal clients, including executives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Communicates operational process changes to both customers/partners and internal clients, while also managing the implementation phase.
- Provides mentorship to junior team members, fostering professional growth and ensuring alignment with account objectives.
- Utilizes data analytics to derive insights, monitors key performance indicators, and generates regular reports for key stakeholders.
- Develops clear performance metrics and objectives for the accounts, regularly reviewing progress and making adjustments as needed.
Education and Experience Required
- Four-year or Graduate Degree in Sales, Marketing, Business Administration, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
- Typically has 10+ years of work experience, preferably in account management, business development, supply chain, customer service, or a related field.
- Typically 2-5 years of experience in support function.
- Experience on Global/regional accounts or large, complex domestic accounts.
- Project management experience preferred.
- Experience in contractual business management.
Preferred Certifications
- ITIL Foundation certification
- Certified Sales Operations Professional (CSOP)
Knowledge & Skills
- Excellent communication skills (e.g. written, verbal, presentation); mastery in English and local language as well as other languages as required.
- Excellent Leadership, negotiation and influence skills.
- In-depth understanding of core HP businesses and the revenue cycle.
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Strong project management, problem solving, and analytical skills.
- Strong ability to collaborate and network with other groups and functions to reach business objectives, in support of the customer/partner requirements.
- Strong ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with external customers/partners up to the Director level.
- Solid financial and business acumen.
- Proven ability to identify and implement customer-specific process improvements.