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Senior Commercial Account Manager - London
Fastly is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Commercial Account Manager to join our team. This strategic role is pivotal in building and nurturing robust commercial and strategic business relationships across our key customers in the region.
The Senior Commercial Account Manager will be responsible for managing a dedicated portfolio of Commercial customer relationships, engaging stakeholders from C-level down. You will be expected to:
Drive Revenue Growth: Utilize a proven track record to execute upsell and cross-sell opportunities, securing and growing revenue, and driving wider product adoption across the customer base.
Strategic Account Management: Bring expertise in developing and executing successful account strategies, including delivering impactful business reviews and fostering deep, wide-ranging customer relationships.
Customer Advocacy: Act as a central leader for customer advocacy, actively managing account health and orchestrating partnerships across Fastly’s Sales, Customer Support, Product, and Technical teams to maximize customer value.
Autonomy and Impact: This role is ideal for an individual with the skill, energy, and confidence to work autonomously and make a significant, independent impact in the region.
The successful candidate will bring a growth mindset to the position and possess exceptional organizational skills, recognizing that success is directly tied to the value and partnership we provide our customers.
What You’ll do
Maintain existing and drive new customer spend across a large group of customers
Use automation and technology (including Salesforce and Outreach.io) to streamline engagement, accelerate adoption, and improve customer sentiment
Evaluate the customer journey to provide insight around key milestones
Monitor relationship and account health for customers, using playbooks to execute key activities
Act as a customer’s primary contact, aligning internal resources as needed (including Sales, Sales Engineers, and Technical Account Management)
Collaborate with the product and marketing teams to provide customer feedback and insights
What We’re Looking For
Proven track record in Account Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Strategic Sales within the United Kingdom.
Extensive prior sales experience focused on driving revenue growth through up-selling and cross-selling to existing business, customers, and key stakeholders.
Highly desirable experience within the CDN (Content Delivery Network), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and/or Cyber Security industries.
Strong customer-facing skills with the ability to confidently lead customer meetings and product demonstrations, coupled with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
Possesses a strong sense of curiosity to understand customer goals and the ability to effectively align complex technical concepts with clear business values.
Demonstrates strong Project Management skills, a high detail orientation, and outstanding organizational skills.
Thrives in a dynamic, multitasking environment with an ability to prioritize effectively. Independent and self-disciplined.
Commitment and proven ability to continually learn new technology and skills.
Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours 9am - 6pm
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: This position is a hybrid role and open to candidates residing in the following locations London
This position will require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager, across the UK.
Benefits: We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.
Why Fastly?
We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire, you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly, participate in hands-on learning opportunities, and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand.
We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.
We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.
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