Senior Relationship Manager

Posted: 04/04/25
Recruiter:Wex Europe
Reference:2925491474
Type:Permanent
Industry: Financial, Financial, Media, Security
Salary:Competitive
Location:London
Description:

SENIOR RELATIONSHIP MANAGER / LONDON OR MANCHESTER / HYBRID MIN 1 DAY A WEEK OFFICE / COMPETITIVE BASIC SALARY PLUS COMMISSION, BENEFITS

The role of the Senior Relationship Manager is to grow WEX s share of business within a portfolio of accounts that are of high value to WEX. The role function includes:

  • Establishing, nurturing and maintaining relationships within the Corporate Payments portfolio.
  • Development of 3-year Strategic Account plans understanding client s evolving business needs and challenges, identifying opportunities to leverage our payment technology platform to optimize their operations and achieve their strategic goals.
  • Deep understanding of the stakeholder map at a client level.
  • Develop relationship at C-suite level and with a wider group of influencers, decisions makers and enablers within the client group.
  • Ability to map the end to end booking to pay process from clients to uncover opportunities and areas where WEX can add value including integration opportunities.
  • Deep understanding of WEX technology and how it differentiates in the market place, including understanding of data and money process flows.
  • Apply Solution selling principles to effectively articulate the value proposition of our platform and demonstrate how it addresses specific client needs and pain points.
  • Present tailored solutions by effectively articulating the value proposition of our platform and demonstrating how it addresses specific client needs and pain points.
  • Identifying and assisting in the implementation of opportunities within the existing portfolio that represent profitable and sustainable business.
  • Ensuring that WEX has a competitive advantage in the marketplace by implementing creative value propositions and reinforcing them
  • Identifying and implementing best practices across high value clients
  • Ensuring the use of CRM to capture leads and outcomes
  • It requires the individual to understand the competitive environment and to find creative ways to ensure that our products and services remain relevant to our clients and prospects, with a focus on growth.

What s on Offer?

  • Highly Competitive basic salary (Dependent on experience)
  • Commission
  • 40 hour week- Monday to Friday, no evenings or weekends
  • Hybrid working from our London Bridge or Manchester City Centre office (min 1-2 days per week)
  • Industry leading pension scheme
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays- with the opportunity to purchase additional holidays
  • Life assurance
  • Income protection
  • Discount & Perks platform
  • Employee wellbeing

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Relationship Manager:

  • Deliver high retention rates by proactively monitoring client satisfaction, addressing concerns, and identifying potential churn risks.
  • Drive a positive NPS trajectory with improvements over the previous year s baseline.
  • Moving beyond feature explanations to quantify and communicate the tangible benefits and return on investment (ROI) that clients can realize by utilizing our platform's capabilities.
  • Collaborating with product development to address client feedback and feature requests.
  • Conducting technical workshops and training sessions.
  • Responsible for complex Tier-1/2 WEX customers: portfolio size 10
  • Deliver financial outcomes (spend and revenue and margin) for the portfolio;
  • Ensure mutually beneficial relationships to deliver strong revenue growth with negligible customer attrition;Drive strategic account planning for Tier-1/2 customers that develops mutually beneficial performance objectives, financial targets, and critical milestones for short/medium/longer term;
  • Actively prioritise to ensure time spent on the most important opportunities within the larger portfolio;
  • Gain deep understanding of customers business to seek new opportunities for growth;Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure seamless service delivery and client satisfaction; and
  • Provide regular feedback on market conditions, competitors, and so forth, to build organisational knowledge.

Skills & Experience:

  • A minimum of 8 years in an account manager or related role
  • Proven ability to manage clients for strong growth and positive outcomes
  • Proven ability to influence the priority of decision making and value perception
  • Ability to establish a "trusted partner" relationship with internal & external clients
  • Ability to negotiate and close out a commercial deal from inception to completion
  • Sound experience in statistical reporting and analysis
  • Strategic thinking to analyse client needs and align them with our platform's capabilities.
  • Highly competent and confident in group and individual presentations
  • Competent networking skills
  • Strong ability to understand issues and develop creative solutions
  • Proven ability to work with profitability models to prepare proposals
  • Exposure to payments, banking, working capital or supply chain industries, ideally B2B
  • Relevant tertiary qualifications, preferably in finance, commerce or general management.
  • Fluency in English and one other European language is highly desirable.
  • Willingness to travel extensively across the EMEA region.

What s Next?
If you have the skills and passion to take on this position of Senior Relationship Manager, then we would love to hear from you. APPLY NOW for immediate consideration.

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