Account Manager South Africa

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Hiring Remotely in South Africa
Remote
Expert/Leader
Information Technology • Legal Tech • Analytics
The Role
Lead sales managers and professional associates in promoting products and services, building customer relationships, developing lead-generation plans, and maintaining a strong sales pipeline. Set departmental priorities, allocate resources, guide team plans, manage budgets and outcomes, and influence internal and external stakeholders to achieve financial and operational goals.
Summary Generated by Built In

Do you enjoy leading sales teams to deliver customer-focused growth?

Would you like to help shape a strong pipeline and support teams to succeed?

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law. 

About the Role

As Manager III, Direct Sales, you will lead sales managers and professional associates to promote products and services, build customer relationships, and grow a strong sales opportunity pipeline. You will set priorities, guide team plans, allocate resources, and help deliver financial and operational outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Promoting and selling technical and non-technical products and services to end customers
  • Informing customers of new product and service introductions and prices
  • Creating, monitoring, and revising lead generation plans to ensure a substantive sales opportunity pipeline
  • Providing leadership to managers and professional associates
  • Developing departmental plans and determining production and team priorities
  • Setting organizational priorities and allocating resources

Requirements

  • Have a comprehensive understanding of internal and industry standards and principles within your discipline
  • Be able to integrate department business dynamics and align with division priorities
  • Be able to manage multiple related teams of professionals and/or junior managers
  • Be able to apply functional knowledge and existing methodologies to complex problems
  • Have accountability for end results, finances/budget, resources, planning, and policy formulation
  • Be able to influence and persuade internal and external stakeholders
  • Have excellent interpersonal skills

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals. 

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive. 

Working for You

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer: 

  • Medical Aid 
  • Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover) 
  • Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy 
  • Study Leave 

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.

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Skills Required

  • Comprehensive understanding of internal and industry standards and principles within the sales discipline
  • Ability to integrate department business dynamics and align with division priorities
  • Ability to manage multiple related teams of professionals and junior managers
  • Ability to apply functional knowledge and existing methodologies to complex problems
  • Accountability for end results, finances or budgets, resources, planning, and policy formulation
  • Ability to influence and persuade internal and external stakeholders
  • Excellent interpersonal skills

RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.

  • Retirement Support Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.

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The Company
HQ: London
10,001 Employees
Year Founded: 1880

What We Do

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.

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