Senior Pricing and Renewal Lead - Remote
Newton, Massachusetts, United States of America, 02459
Corporate
Full time
Primary Purpose
The Senior Pricing & Renewal Lead (SPRL) manages and leads, the pricing and negotiation of new, renewal, and upsell opportunities within the EdAdvisory portfolio of product and service offerings. This role leads the renewal process with overall shared responsibility for retention of existing revenue and services. The SPRL collaborates with sales and account management teams for the advancement of client and prospect journeys through the sale and renewal process, including the identification of upsell opportunities and determining fees that meet client need and internal objectives. SPRL will foster strong rapport and consultative partnerships with large strategic and complex clients including client contacts, procurement, and/or third- party consultants. The SPRL will identify possible roadblocks to solutions longevity within accounts and recommend mitigation plans.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
- Sales Process
- Achieves assigned growth goals by maintaining and growing revenue with EdAdvisory’s existing client base
- Manages, negotiates and executes client contract renewals, in partnership with sales, account management, and other internal stakeholders, and in alignment with internal strategy and financial goals
- Develops and recommends revenue retention strategies by collaborating with the sales and account management teams and through a deep understanding of the factors impacting ability to retain revenue
- Manages renewal pipeline and reports renewal activities and KPI’s in regular sales meetings
- Actively identifies and pursues opportunities to increase client revenue through upsell activities and price increases in contract renewals, as applicable
- Ensures the onboarding and adoption of products, as applicable, and the long-term success of each client
- Monitors client satisfaction with solutions and proactively looks for ways to increase solutions scope and scale
- Collaborates with internal teams to produce pricing for proposals and content in finalist meetings / site visits as well as identifies and prepares key participants in these meetings
- Ensures all renewal contracts are signed, and go-forward processes are agreed upon with the client, in close collaboration with the CRD
- Coordinates with Delivery Teams, CRDs, and other teams as necessary to ensure a positive customer experience throughout the contract term
- Supports the advancement of clients through milestones of the buyer’s journey including adoption, expansion, and renewal
- Client Relationship Management
- Builds relationships with our existing customer base to monitor solution satisfaction and to develop understanding of a client’s account “snapshot” or current situation
- Builds relationships with client procurement and/or third-party consultants to effectively manage successful result
- Actively participates in client meetings with CRDs and CSDs to help drive renewal and sale interests
- Overcomes client objections to renewal and pricing process and actively educates clients about product offerings, promotions, and solutions capabilities
Decision Making
Receives limited direction and exercises independent judgement within the scope of their role
Influence
Regularly influences function or department
Impact
Department
Job Requirements – Education/Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in business, finance or related field - Required
- 5 years experience in account management, sales, marketing or related fields working with large enterprise clients - Required
Would relevant experience be considered in lieu of applicable degree?
Yes
Minimum additional years of experience that would be considered in lieu of the applicable degree:
3
Additional Job Requirements
- Strong business and financial acumen and a track record of accelerating growth via multiple support tools, processes, analytics and services
- Strategic mindset with operational experience and expertise
- Success in this position will be measured by profitable business line growth and client retention
- Outstanding verbal and written English communication skills
- Phone contact management experience, knowledge of online marketing and CRM systems
- Ability to collaborate and work effectively in a fast-paced team environment with shared responsibilities
- Proven success managing sales and contract renewals
- Sales training that has included negotiation, upselling, and objection handling preferred
- Travel Expectation 5 – 10% of the time (sometimes on short notice) to support meetings with clients