Desktop Account Manager

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Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZAF
In-Office
Entry level
Information Technology • Legal Tech • Analytics
The Role
Build and maintain relationships with key B2B customers, understand their needs, demonstrate LexisNexis product value, and achieve revenue targets through retention, cross-selling, and upselling. The role also involves customer planning, reporting, documentation, regular customer contact, and coaching team members toward shared goals.
Summary Generated by Built In

Are you data-driven and customer-focused?

Do you enjoy building strong relationships that support revenue and growth?

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, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles. 

About the Role

As an Account Manager II, you’ll build relationships with key customers, understand their needs and demonstrate the value of LexisNexis products. You’ll use customer and commercial insights to protect and grow revenue while supporting team members to achieve shared goals.

Responsibilities

  • Coach and develop team members to achieve shared goals.
  • Complete planning, documentation, reporting and data recording in line with agreed methods and targets.
  • Achieve or exceed revenue targets by identifying cross-sell and upsell opportunities.
  • Identify key account needs and demonstrate the business value of LexisNexis products.
  • Deliver the agreed quality and frequency of customer contact.
  • Build strong relationships with key decision-makers and influencers to protect and grow revenue.

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of print and online products, the relevant market and customer domain, with the ability to adopt new products.
  • Ability to be a positive role model within the team and wider business.
  • A consistent record of meeting or exceeding expectations.
  • Strong communication, time-management and planning skills.
  • Ability to identify commercial opportunities, supported by customer service and sales experience.
  • Experience retaining and growing customers in a B2B sales environment.

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. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. 

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

  • Strong knowledge of print and online products, the relevant market, and customer domain; ability to adopt new products.
  • Ability to serve as a positive role model within the team and wider business.
  • Consistent record of meeting or exceeding expectations.
  • Strong communication, time-management, and planning skills.
  • Ability to identify commercial opportunities, supported by customer service and sales experience.
  • Experience retaining and growing customers in a B2B sales environment.

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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