As Strategic Account Director Sports you will:
- Utilize your network to identify and engage with high-potential leads and key decision-makers
- Extend our customer base within the top 1st football leagues in europe and their teams
- Build relationships with potential new clients to understand their specific needs and desires, and defining tailored solution approaches
- Take full ownership of the end-to-end sales cycle, managing various stakeholders including User Buyers, Technical Buyers, Economic Buyers, and CX teams
- Negotiate and close contracts with new customers to drive business growth
- Promote cross-departmental collaboration by working closely with Customer Experience, Development, and Legal to ensure internal alignment and project success
What you will need to succeed in this role:
- 5+ years experience within the football industry or 10+ years in other sports, sports-ticketing
- A successfully completed university degree, ideally with a focus on Business Administration or a related field
- A strong affinity for the sports event industry, preferably with professional experience in this segment
- Proven track record in end-to-end sales of complex, high-touch products, ideally within the B2B software (SaaS) sector
- Strong customer orientation paired with exceptional problem-solving skills
- High levels of enthusiasm and excellent communication skills
- Business-fluent level proficiency in English
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What We Do
Hundreds of thousands of sellers around the globe rely on primary ticketing solutions that haven’t kept up with their needs and expectations. Platforms from the 90s that still feel like we are in the 90s made the jobs of ticket managers worldwide constant miseries. Now there is a better way — customer-centric ticketing! vivenu is a primary ticketing provider that helps event organizers manage, market, and analyze ticket sales from one unified platform. Our mission is to build a ticketing platform that puts ticket sellers first – so they’re empowered to create experiences that people love. We empower organizers to be more efficient, absolutely independent, and fully connected – to say the very least. vivenu is the exclusive ticketing solution for the Grammy Awards, the Special Olympics, FC Schalke 04, Qatar Creates, and many many more. With $65 million in funding from renowned global investors, we’ve set out to revolutionize event ticketing – now and forever. Pumped enough? We are not just another company and we are not looking for people who seek just another job. Ready for personal growth? Join us.
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