We're looking for an Account Manager. Mid-Market (Italian Speaker, 12-month contract) to manage, retain, and grow relationships within our Mid-Market customer segment. In this role, you will be the primary commercial owner for a portfolio of accounts, with a clear mandate to ensure long-term customer value, successful retention, and targeted expansion. You will leverage a deep understanding of our platform and full product suite to drive consistent customer value and achieve superior renewal and expansion outcomes. This is a hybrid role based out of our London or Luxembourg offices and will report into the Manager, Account Management, Mid-Market.   WHAT YOU’LL DO: * Maintain day-to-day contact with your book of Mid Market customers, establishing influential relationships by providing timely answers to questions, monitoring health and adoption, in order to enhance performance across social media. * Manage the post-sale relationships, including multithreaded customer engagements. Implement negotiation strategies with manager support to drive successful renewal and expansion outcomes. * Provide weekly forecasts and maintain rolling forecasts ensuring SFDC is consistently updated for your customers. Monitor account data health, identify risks and/or objections, and escalate risks to internal stakeholder groups for timely mitigation to ensure customer retention. * Act as a trusted advisor throughout the customer journey, leveraging your knowledge of product fit while tailoring existing renewal strategy to meet customers’ unique needs with manager support. * Conduct Strategic Business Reviews (SBR) to discuss accomplishments, opportunities, account growth and to identify areas of improvement * Monitor and report on customer engagement activities and results in order to assess trends using SFDC, Gainsight, Gong and others * Consistently build an expansion pipeline, focusing on the upsell of product add-ons upon contract renewal or during the service period to meet or exceed expansion targets. * Demonstrate an understanding of contract terms and processes in order to positively influence the renewal process as well as ensure a seamless customer experience. * Report clients' feedback to manager and relevant internal stakeholders * Log feature requests and update customer account notes in Salesforce. Identify and escalate potential account risks and maintain SFDC hygiene * Collaborate with Professional Services where applicable * Perform other related duties as assigned.   WHAT YOU’LL NEED: * Relevant experience in sales or customer success experience, preferably in a fast paced, SaaS industry * Fluent in English and Italian * Proven success managing a customer portfolio; demonstrated ability to manage a high volume of opportunities and transactions, while leveraging data driven insights within the customer journey and sales process. * Proven record of quota attainment and/or portfolio management and can share experiences of developing business plans with a mix of tactics. * Experience using sales tools such as SFDC, Gong, Sales Navigator, 6Sense, and Gainsight * Belief in ValueSelling, with a strong sense of what customers value and how to challenge them to develop a deeper understanding of how Hootsuite delivers impact and ROI. * Open Communication: Clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding, supporting new owls with internal training and collaboration sessions. * Collaboration and Teamwork: Works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs. Commitment to Results: Consistently achieving results, demonstrating high performance, and challenging self and others to deliver results. * Customer Focus: Demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers to meet their needs. * Negotiation: Successfully obtains commitment to a solution or idea, while maintaining integrity and relationships. * Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish - doesn’t give up.   WHO YOU ARE: * Solution seeker. You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked. * Lifelong learner. You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t. * Resilient adapter. In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity. * Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information. * Critical challenger. You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result. * Active communicator. You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively. * Integrated thinker. You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals. * Accountable owner. You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes. * Bar-raiser. You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.   ----------------------------------------   In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way: Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles. #StepUp One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best  work without compromising who they are. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies   Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. 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