Account Executive - Network Growth

Frontline employees engage and support all companies to leverage EcoVadis solutions in order to foster continuous improvement of sustainable business practices in global supply chains.

Your responsibility would be to ensure the acquisition of new Southern Europe suppliers in order to grow the EV network of assessed companies, boost response rates, and drive value throughout the EcoVadis onboarding experience.

You are a trusted advisor and can influence everything the customer touches in their first (and future) experience with us. This position interacts with all EcoVadis customers (buyers & suppliers) as well as multiple business units internally to provide high touch service that respects the relationship of the customers to EcoVadis and is a true EcoVadis ambassador.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with customers via phone, email, tickets, webinars, etc to accompany them during the onboarding process, solve their queries and increase response rates for the Benelux and UK markets and ultimately convince them to adopt our EV solution
• Identify and target “high value” customers (i.e outreach with customized approach) and take appropriate steps to engage them successfully by using Sales tactics
• Manage, monitor and drive your portfolio to maximize conversion
• Be proactive to nurture and build your pipeline, re-engage customers and maximize inflow
• Be autonomous to manage all your tasks efficiently, display commercial awareness to identify proactively business opportunities
• Identify risks to the customers successful completion of the EcoVadis evaluation process and actively work to mitigate issues before they happen; Become a CSR expert to overcome objections
• Capture and record internal and customer-sourced insights, then proactively report and contribute as necessary with the Team Leader, Management and other EcoVadis BU’s (Sales, Customer Success, etc) to bridge gaps that may exist between customer expectations & participation
• Be accountable to drive a set of KPIs (Conversion rate, Quality score, etc).
• Additional responsibilities related to the function may be required

Requirements

• Experience in sales or upselling/inside sales preferred - comfortable with proactive outreach to EcoVadis network members
• 2+ years experience in a customer facing role
• Passion for excellent customer service
• Ability to interpret data to identify actions
• Fluent in English and other languages are a definite plus : French, Italian.
• Comfortable presenting to large groups
• Team player
• Autonomous and proactive
• Experience with Salesforce or CRM software preferred
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, high-growth environment
• Enthusiasm and motivation to improve customer experience
• Proactive in suggesting, designing and implementing ideas and improvements