Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where you gain
tremendous responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional
entrepreneurial team with young, motivated, and extremely driven
people? Are you curious or passionate about sales? If so, you might be
our next Account Development Director.
About us Private Equity
Insights is the world's leading Private Equity community. We connect
and develop more than 240,000 investment professionals across the
world, through our platforms, which include conferences, webinars,
magazines and news reports.
For more than 10 years, PEI has
helped Investors, Fund Managers and CXOs rethink what it takes to
fundraise, invest, operate and exit in Private Equity, and does so via
online engagement and cutting edge conferences in Singapore, UK,
France, Poland & CEE, Benelux, Switzerland, Iberia, Germany, Italy,
Nordics and DACH."
Private Equity Insights is part of United
Media which focuses on building large scale industry media and
conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity,
retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media
companies and acquired one.
What we
offer you As our Account Development Director ,
you'll have the unique opportunity to be part of building and scaling
a new team in the company focused on account management. You'll be
working out of our HQ in London, and to ensure a never-ending growth
curve, we provide you with:
- An opportunity to get
operational experience in a start-up where both your work and the
results are highly tangible and matter to the business
- A
chance to work closely together with the CEO on our sales execution
- Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly
believe in and have a track record of promoting internally
Your Responsibilities
Given our global expansion, the Account Development
Director role is strategically important to place us as the market
leader in the industry. As we start to amass a large client base that
needs extra care and nurture, this will allow you to build
relationships with C-level executives and SME business owners in the
financial and technology sectors. In the role, your responsibilities
will include but not be limited to
- Hiring, leading and
developing a team
- Owning and developing strategies and
processes
- Segmenting clients and organising the team
- Being overall responsible for the entire portfolio of
accounts
- Building strong and tight relationships with your
portfolio of accounts
- Upselling and cross-selling
- Working closely with other teams and departments
- Attending conferences and events to meet clients and stay
updated in our industry
What we
expect from you You possess an unparalleled work
ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and
desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of
everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments.
Moreover, you're humble, and you share our passion for building and
executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you:
- Several years in account management with an excellent
track record.
- Experience leading a team or strong aspiration
to do so.
- Track record and ability to build strong relations
with clients and other stakeholders.
- Ability to shape
processes and define strategies to segment accounts
- Structured approach to managing a portfolio of accounts and
prioritizing accounts
- Ability to take ownership of
everything you do, being proactive and following through
- Excellent communicator skills (especially) verbally and in
writing.
- Relentless drive and desire to be the very best at
what you do.
- Unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of
urgency.
If this sounds like you, then we need to hear
from you today.