Account Manager - Journals and eBooks at InformaGroupPlc

The Academic & Government division at Taylor & Francis Group is currently hiring a high performing Account Manager who possesses strong hunter mindset to be responsible for the Northeast territory within the United States.  You will be a strong verbal communicator with ethical standards and collaborate with appropriate departments ensuring a well-coordinated team selling approach. Ideally, you will have had open access, journals and eBook understanding as well as selling experience in academic library markets. This sales opportunity is remote. What you’ll be doing: • Designing, implementing and owning a 1-to-3-year sales strategy for eBooks, Journals and Open Access within your territory • Achieving and exceeding annual sales targets, contributing to the overall revenue and profit objectives of the business division • Planning schedules and carrying out regular sales visits to customers to achieve financial targets within own sales region across product portfolio.  Travel for this role is expected to be 30% to 50%. • Developing strong professional and industry stakeholder networks with key accounts within the assigned territory • Cultivating strong, holistic relationships with the customer base, working to ensure that trading with each account is sustainable, profitable and delivering a high level of customer satisfaction • Collecting and disseminating market, competitor, and customer feedback • Establishing a strategic approach to the short, medium- and long-term business within the territory, to ensure that activity is both relevant and flexible to the evolving trading environment over time • Upholding company trading and terms policy, to protect profitability and value of business in territory • Liaising actively with stakeholder departments or groups within the business to enhance T&F’s coverage of the territory – product specialists, sales support, editorial, marketing • Conducting key analyses of products, customers, markets, and competitors; developing and maintaining knowledge of business and market trends. Identifying areas of opportunity; offering suggestions and making recommendations for improvement to appropriate managers • Regularly updating the companies CRM with relevant customer and opportunity information