Provide leadership to a team of account managers, to ensure they deliver exceptional customer experiences and meet their performance goals
Support your team’s personal development by identifying and delivering relevant training, and developing skills development frameworks
Using your experience, actively coach your team to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes
Instil classic enterprise account management practices within the team, including comprehensive joint account planning, stakeholder mapping, and multi-contact relationship building
Partner with your team to drive portfolio growth by identifying and unlocking expansion and other growth opportunities
Oversee commercial risk, navigate complex negotiations, and develop bespoke retention and commercial optimisation strategies
Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders within key accounts, acting as a senior escalation point
Build and deliver a long term plan for your team and customer portfolio, aligned with Octopus EV’s goals
Develop a scalable, repeatable playbook for your team to deliver and demonstrate significant value to both the customer and Octopus EV
Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and competitor offerings
Establish and monitor KPIs to measure team and individual performance
Generate insightful reports on customer success metrics, presenting findings, recommendations and regular updates to senior leadership
Analyse customer feedback and trends to identify and implement areas for improvement, and iterate your team’s playbook
Be the internal champion and voice of our largest customers, collaborating with internal teams to effectively resolve issues, integrate customer feedback into product development and service enhancements
Requirements
7+ years of commercial, customer-facing experience, including extensive experience with high-value, enterprise-sized B2B customers, and managing multi-tier, senior level relationships
To be a passionate, energetic and positive leader, having led a high-performing account management team or similar
Deep experience implementing classic account management disciplines, developing an account management playbook and building out a multi-year team strategy
Advanced commercial acumen, with a background with contract negotiations, and commercial risk mitigation and optimisation
Strong coaching and influencing skills, with the presence and communication style required to hold senior customer and internal relationships confidently under pressure
A ‘start up’ mindset, thriving in fast-paced high-growth environments, and navigating change and productive chaos with ease. Capable of thinking several steps ahead, and implementing the necessary shifts to maintain team effectiveness during rapid scaling
Knowledge of employee benefits, salary sacrifice or having worked with another employee-facing service or product is highly advantageous. Prior automotive/EV leasing experience is not required
Benefits
💰 Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus
what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
🎉 Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! 🎁 Visit our perks hub
Octopus Employee Benefits****
🏆 Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times best company to work for in 2024. We were named 6th out of the top 100 start-ups to work for by Tempo in 2025 and on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership
P.s. 🐶 *just to let you know, we are dog friendly company so you may see our 4 legged friends in the offices
feel free to bring yours! Rest assured though, we've taken lots of precautions for those who have allergies*