Summary

Ready for a new challenge? Join Guidewire as a Senior Sales Account Manager, we would love to see your background! The focus of this role is to manage relationships with existing customers, negotiate contract renewals, manage reference requests and ensure customer satisfaction. In this role, you will need to work well with extended teams across our organization in support of our customers. The AM role is part of the Sales organization, so you will be expected to identify sales opportunities and engage field sales as necessary.

Job Description

We need an experienced Sales Account Manager to help ensure long term success and reference-ability at existing customers in the P&C Insurance industry. Deep knowledge of working with large sophisticated customers, sales and contracts is required. The candidate must be experienced at forming long term relationships with executives in the assigned territory. Insurance knowledge is a plus.

The focus of this role is to maintain relationships with existing customers,

negotiate contract renewals, manage reference requests and ensure customer

satisfaction as well as identify and pursue new business opportunities through proactive prospecting. In this role, you will need to work well with extended teams across our organization in support of our customers. The Sales Account Manager role is part of the Sales organization, so you will be encouraged to identify sales opportunities and engage field sales as necessary.

Key Responsibilities: 

Build and lead post-sale client relationships to maximize product expansion opportunities and ensure customer satisfaction

Manage and close contract renewals and updates

Establish and maintain reference contacts and encourage participation in PR, success stories, videos and events

Develop relationships with customers at all levels of the organization (C-level to program leads) in the assigned territory

Engage internal departments and key partners as necessary to drive successful customer engagements

Provide regular updates to customers on product roadmap, new offerings and company initiatives

Arrange and participate in product, technical and sales presentations to clients

Facilitate customer user groups in assigned region

Support the resolution of customer critical issues with participation from other teams as needed

Maintain a solid knowledge base of the Company’s underlying technology, products, delivery services, education offerings, solution partners and system integrators

Follow and support Company procedures for proposals, contracts, and policy changes

Represent the Company at conferences, industry meetings, user groups and other venues in support of our customers

Track and report key engagement metrics to Management regarding the coverage of your territory

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE INCLUDE:

Minimum 5-year experience with enterprise software

Extensive experience and knowledge of the Insurance industry preferred

Proven ability to proactively identify new sales opportunities and experience in nurturing and growing existing customer accounts

Thorough understanding of enterprise account management and show a methodical approach to handling a territory

Well-developed verbal communication, liaison and representation skills

Well-developed writing skills and the ability to proof read own material and that of others

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.