Customer Account Manager
As our customer base grows, Avalara is increasing our focus on Customer Success, Retention and Satisfaction. As part of the customer loyalty team, the Customer Account Manager (CAM) is responsible for maximizing the lifetime value of every customer.
responsibilities include:
- Relationship Management:
- Establish and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction by building professional long-term relationship with day to day Avalara users up to the executive level ensuring they realize full value from their investment.
- Responsible for customer retention (dollar and logo) throughout the renewal sales cycle and ensuring timely account reviews.
- Create an environment of great outcomes for the customer and Avalara by professionally and ethically negotiating issues related to contracts, pricing and service fees.
- Ensure high customer satisfaction through a proactive approach throughout the customer’s lifecycle including the customer’s onboarding experience and expectation management.
- Sales Management:
- Holistically manage a portfolio of customers and develop and execute on a Territory Plan that supports achieving or exceeding quota and goals.
- Understand the customer's business environment and uncover their sales and use tax challenges to recommend additional products/services.
- Run a pipeline of add-on and up sell opportunities within a set of existing accounts and deliver results against a quota.
- Provide timely forecasts and risk analysis to direct manager as well as track customer and partner interaction..
- Cross group collaboration:
- Work in a team environment with a Customer Experience Manager to promote customer retention and satisfaction.
- Leverage marketing campaigns and resources to increase product footprint within existing customers.
- Use the broader internal team and partner ecosystem to address customer satisfaction issues.
- Advocacy:
- Grow relationships with key customer contacts to ensure we add customer value at every step and ultimately get a customer to promote us to their peers.
- Represent the ‘Voice of the Customer’, surfacing key business insights for impacting customer experience and document business-value driven customer success stories and best practices.
- Build client references and uncover client success stories to share with the sales and CAM team
- Technical knowledge: Develop subject matter expertise and deep product knowledge in order to provide valuable actionable recommendations to customer in managing sales and use tax
About Avalara
Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transaction taxes, including sales and use, VAT, excise, communications, and other tax types. The company delivers comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions designed to be fast, accurate, and easy to use. The Avalara Compliance Cloud® platform helps customers manage complicated and burdensome tax compliance obligations imposed by state, local, and other taxing authorities throughout the world.
Avalara offers more than 600 pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications, making the integration of tax and compliance solutions easy for customers. Each year, the company processes billions of indirect tax transactions for customers and users, files more than a million tax returns, and manages millions of tax exemption certificates and other compliance documents.
Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and overseas in the U.K., Belgium, Brazil, and India. More information at www.avalara.com
Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.
Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.