Key Accounts Manager, Core and Emerging Markets

Key Accounts Manager, Core and Emerging Markets

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

LinkedIn's Sales Solutions team is dedicated to improving the world of sales and business development with Sales Navigator, our flagship product that connects and builds mutually beneficial relationships between buyers and sellers.

As a Key Account Manager, you are the go-to business sponsor at LinkedIn Sales Solutions to some of the world's most important and complex companies and use your strategic selling skills to consult and educate prospective buyers on the benefits and value of these platforms for their client-facing and revenue organizations. In this role, you will focus on our Core and Emerging Markets customers, helping some of the world's largest organizations grow their revenue through the power of the Sales Solutions offerings. You will work to establish yourself and the broader LinkedIn team as a trusted advisor to these firms, sharing insights, building business cases, developing deep relationships, and inspiring your clients to embrace new challenges and opportunities for growth. You will also work directly with multiple parts of LinkedIn's business including Sales leadership, Customer Success, Marketing, and Insights / Analytics.

Responsibilities :

• Understand how LinkedIn Sales Navigator can be used by large, complex organizations, and make compelling recommendations for additional investments in LinkedIn
• Build account plans for your named accounts (~12) to understand key decision makers, org charts, current investment, product utilization and new revenue opportunity
• Understand where the opportunity exists in each account and coordinate a strategy for expanding the account
• Inspire and coordinate across clients and internal partners to grow your accounts
• Plan out your activities and meetings to ensure you are focused on your largest opportunities
• Build and deliver product ROI analysis to your key clients with support from cross-functional teams
• Run a quarterly business review with all your key clients to understand their key company initiatives, review product utilization, provide key updates on LinkedIn and our expanding portfolio of solutions, and sell solutions that will address key corporate initiatives
• Grow the revenue from the named accounts by 50-100%, through upsell on renewals and by identifying and closing new multi-million dollar business / product contracts
• Use CRM every day for tracking activities and, most importantly, forecasting
• Communicate with the Executive and the Product team about what you are hearing from the market and, when appropriate, push the organization to think about what we need to develop to stay competitive