Account Manager

Company Description

At Shift, disruption, transformation, and positive change is important to us. We’re resetting expectations around how businesses trade, pay and access funds with an experience that is simple and seamless. Enabled by streaming data, we provide credit and payments platforms that are a better way to do business.

We’re here to help Australian businesses and want you to be a part of it. As part of the team, you’ll approach new challenges with a clean sheet of paper, reimagine possibilities and deliver results that are 10x better than before.

As one of Australia’s fastest-growing companies, you’ll join a team that has been recognised across the industry.

• AFR’s Fast 100
• Deloitte’s Technology Fast50,
• Smart Company’s Smart50
• Deloitte’s Asia Pacific Technology Fast 500

Job Description

This role oversees full management of allocated customer account management responsibilities. Responsibilities include acquiring establishing client relationships with your client portfolio and identifying additional revenue streams from the existing allocated Shift customer portfolio, as well as bringing on new customers within the ‘Direct’ (warm leads) customer channel who can benefit from the Shift platform offerings. The Account Manager role works closely with customers to determine and explore potential solutions through the anticipation of the customer’s business growth needs.

Main Responsibilities/Duties:

• Actively own and manage the relationship for allocated Shift customers through strategic and effective account management practices, customer service, and general curious outreach
• Acquisition of new Shift customers within the Direct customer channel – warm, pre-qualified leads
• Work with customers to understand their business needs and strategies, and helping customers recognise how the Shift solutions can help accelerate their business
• Selling of Shift Platform solutions to prospective clients using solid arguments backed by the Shift sales approach
• Ongoing outreach to allocated customer portfolio to support increased platform utilisation, promotion and retention
• Providing guidance to customers on service, platform, and general queries
• Responding to and problem-solving customer queries via email and phone
• Completion of due diligence associated with the establishment of new accounts and ongoing management of existing accounts
• Collaboration with team to inform development of effective and efficient processes related to the delivery of exceptional customer service and customer management
• Build relationships with Business Owners, Brokers, and Partners (customers), Internal sales operational teams and Direct Leadership team. 
• Collaboration with other operational teams across the Shift business to manage the needs and challenges of your customer portfolio
• Use of Salesforce CRM to enter and manage customer account information

Qualifications

• A business or finance degree is beneficial but not essential
• Demonstrated relationship management/sales experience in a professional services setting
• Proven experience successfully managing pipeline of existing customers and potential leads
• Proven Customer support/representative experience
• Strong understanding of financial services (ideally lending) highly regarded
• Proficient with MS Office

Additional Information

Our culture

You’ll have supportive management helping develop your skills with regular catch ups, career development programs and annual reviews. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a diverse, talented and results-driven team that thrives on new challenges in an innovative and transformational setting. We value all employee input, you won’t find politics or egos: just one team, with shared successes and shared learnings.

The perks

At Shift, you’ll get great range of benefits such as:

• Industry leading 26 weeks paid parental leave & 2 weeks partner leave.
• Flexible working, from home and office and get your birthday off
• Diversity is probably something you care about, there are 26 different languages spoken by employees here.
• We have a private prayer room and mothers’ room on site for employees to use.
• If you like keeping active on your way to work or at lunch time, we have excellent end of trip facilities. 

If you don’t have all qualifications/skills but think you would be a great fit- get in touch. No updated resume? No problem! Send us what you have and your LinkedIn profile. All Applications will get a response