Managing Director, Seramount Relationship Expansion Team Lead

6 days ago


Washington, United States EAB Full time
About EAB

EAB is a leading provider of data-driven insights and best-in-class capabilities to educational institutions. Our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger.

We work with over 2,800 institutions to drive transformative change through data analytics, institutional strategy, and advancement. Our team is dedicated to accelerating progress and driving results across enrollment, student success, and the workplace.

Seramount

Seramount is a strategic business within EAB, dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. We serve forward-thinking organizations with integrated tools that provide a strategic and holistic map for setting new standards for workplace culture.

Our team has built deep, data-powered intelligence on the employee experience, allowing us to address specific client workplace challenges related to DEI. We excel in serving as our members' go-to partner in developing and progressing their diversity and inclusion strategies.

The Role

We are seeking a Managing Director to lead our Relationship Expansion Team. This role will be responsible for directing, developing, and maintaining relationships with companies or organizations that are active partners of Seramount's products. The goal is to drive utilization and impact, and secure the renewal and upsell of Seramount's Events, Benchmarking, and CDO Collaborative.

The Managing Director will play a critical role in crafting strategy on how to best serve this constituency and support our relationships with executives (CDO, CHRO, etc.) and teams at each partner institution. They will become familiar with Seramount offerings (Memberships, Benchmarking, and Events) to effectively communicate services and deliverables to ensure high-quality service and upsell.

The Managing Director will manage a group of Relationship Directors, overseeing their renewal pool, and will own escalated partner work for our most complex and at-risk partnerships. This role provides internal and external leadership, enabling Relationship Directors to further drive commercial, impact, and renewal activities.

Responsibilities
  1. Revenue & Pipeline Management:
  • Responsible for renewal pool of assigned Relationship Directors on an annual basis, including understanding partner decision processes and budgeting.
  • Generate ideas for how to increase our renewal rate performance beyond the current goals.
  • Manage assigned Relationship Directors against Salesforce and other data tracking and reporting, ensuring high-quality and timely compliance.
Skilled Negotiation:
  • Lead complex and sensitive negotiations, challenging renewal discussions, and creative contracting.
  • Coach and upskill team in this area.
Partner Knowledge & Engagement:
  • Lead virtual and/or in-person meetings with partner executives on issues related to partner KPIs, utilization, impact, and relationship health.
  • Conduct consultative one-on-one presentations to educate partners on our services, acting as an escalation point for the team.
Market Intelligence:
  • Monitor and communicate partner and market interests and trends across programs to Sales, Product, Advisory, and Growth Strategy teams on a regular and ongoing basis.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree from an accredited College/University.
  • 10-12+ years of relevant experience.
  • Proven team collaboration experience.
  • Proven staff management.
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both oral and written, with senior executives.
  • Willingness to travel up to 30% (with heavy virtual partner-facing expectation of up to 60%).
  • Valid driver's license.
  • Experience in Sales, Account Management, Partner Success, and/or the equivalent; experience with a revenue quota and proven record of success.
  • Must possess a minimum of ten years of post-graduate experience in at least one of the following: Experience delivering client presentations, facilitating discussion, Client Management experience.
Ideal Qualifications
  • Professional experience serving the corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion sector and/or experience working within a B-to-B membership-based content and services organization.
  • Experience managing a commercial team including skills coaching, staff career management/pathing, pipeline management, service strategy, and utilization management, and motivating toward goals.
  • Analytical thinking skills and ability to manage processes, projects, and operations.
  • Proven negotiation skills.
  • Demonstrated active listening skills.
  • Experience building relationships internally and externally, and ability to collaborate effectively and manage multiple clients.
  • Proven ability to meet monthly, quarterly, and annual financial goals.
  • Proven experience managing multiple, competing priorities to deliver strategic impact.
  • Ability to work independently and within a team environment.
  • Commitment to an equitable working and continual learning environment in support of EAB's DE&I Promise.


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