Account Manager - Six Degrees Group : Job Details

We are looking for an Account Manager to join our sales team and take the lead in growing and developing our Private Sector client base.

The core focus of this role will be to increase sales activity and grow revenues with your book of accounts. This will mean establishing relationships with clients, developing a deep understanding of their challenges, building a detailed knowlede of Six Degrees capabilities, and ultimately ensuring we are best placed to capitalise on any new business opportunities as they arise.

The role will include lead generation, relationship management, negotiation and account management. As an Account Manager you’ll have a high level of autonomy and will be flexible in your approach. You’ll use your strong understanding of strategic account management and associated overarching governance, to drive pipeline generation and revenue, and in turn you’ll be a key contributor to the growth and success of Six Degrees.

Six Degrees is a leading secure, integrated cloud services provider, where everyone is welcome. We believe success lies in harnessing a truly diverse and inclusive culture.

Our business protects UK organisations with the goal of enabling them to operate effectively and securely in the cloud, by giving them secure platforms to innovate and grow. We support our customers on their digital transformation journey regardless of their maturity.

Our vision is to be the UK’s number one provider of secure, integrated cloud services to the small to mid-size market.

You will be selling complex technical solutions to demanding customers. As an Account Manager, you will be the primary commercial and strategic engagement point between Six Degrees and your customer base. The Account Manager builds mutually beneficial relationships with their internal and external stakeholders and builds trust and credibility through every interaction.

You will be responsible for orchestrating an extended virtual team of internal resources to deliver the optimal outcome for your customers. This will include strategic engagements such as quarterly business reviews and technical road mapping sessions. The ability to quickly build long lasting report with your customers is critical, as is the ability to identify top level business challenges and map them back to Six Degrees capabilities.

If you have previously managed multiple accounts preferably in the MSP sector, we'd love to hear from you. We believe it's important that candidates have an understanding of key issues in the sector that are driving spend and significant experience of managing an account base.

If you feel you’d be a great candidate for this exciting opportunity to join us, we’d look forward to receiving your application.

Our Benefits

In return for the passion our people bring to everything they do, we want them to enjoy a range of benefits that enrich their lives. We are a Real Living Wage employer, and through our additional employee benefits we feel we’ve got something that will help everybody live their best life.

We recognise the immense joy and significance of family leave for our employees, which is why Six Degrees provide an enhanced maternity and paternity leave package. We’re also keen to support people with flexible working, so everyone can have the personal time they need whilst still doing great work here at Six Degrees.

We have some fantastic benefits on offer, with everyone being given Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, a matched pension scheme and 25 days holiday and as a happy birthday from Six Degrees, all employees get a day off for their Birthday.

Throughout the business, our people have a causes and initiatives that they support and that is close to their heart. That’s why we give everyone the chance to volunteer one day year in addition to annual leave to make a difference.

What is more, we also make a contribution to any additional benefits you may wish to choose. Every Six Degrees employee has instant access to private medical care is available, as well as mental health and employee wellbeing support 24/7. Whether it’s a wellness benefit, such as gym benefits, fitness programmes and genetics wellness testing to our life benefits with discounted rates on travel, critical illness and dental insurance. We also provide discounts on well-known brands, in restaurants, supermarkets, the list goes on!

Our recruitment process:

We don’t like to have lengthy recruitment processes here at Six Degrees as it’s more important for us that you have the opportunity to meet with people you’ll work alongside.

We will review all of our applications in detail and our Talent Acquisition team will arrange a telephone or video call if your background and experiences fits what we're looking. All being well, you will be invited to attend a behavioural interview with your line manager and members of the team to talk through your fit for the role in detail and explain more about Six Degrees.

Some of our positions are so important to the business that we'll invite you back for a second and final interview, where you’ll be asked to complete a role-specific activity. After your final stage in the assessment process, we will confirm the outcome and hopefully welcome you to the Six Degrees family! Apply today at 6dg.co.uk.