Account Manager - Maritime

Responsibilities

• Drive portfolio revenue growth across the region by managing key maritime accounts and consistently meeting or exceeding annual sales targets.
• Identify, cultivate, and close strategic upsell and cross-sell opportunities aligned with evolving client intelligence needs.
• Serve as a commercial business partner, contributing to budgeting, multi-year planning, demand planning, reporting, and key commercial metrics.
• Gather direct market, product, and competitor intelligence from client interactions to inform Kpler’s product and commercial strategy.
• Maintain rigorous CRM data integrity in Salesforce, ensuring accurate account notes and updates to support achievable forecasting and effective collaboration across the sales team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Sales Operations, Business Units, and Business Development to drive organizational success.
• Represent Kpler externally with professionalism and credibility, building trusted relationships with clients and industry stakeholders.
• Contribute to corporate projects and initiatives that support Kpler’s broader strategic objectives.
• Negotiate contracts and commercial terms to secure profitable agreements while ensuring full compliance with company policies.

Requirements

• Extensive commercial experience within B2B account management or sales roles.
• Strong negotiation capabilities paired with an active, proactive commercial mindset.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with fluency in English and willingness to travel across Northwest Europe as needed.

Preferred

• Fluency in additional European languages.

Experience & Background

• Direct domain exposure to the maritime, energy, or commodities sectors (with maritime experience strongly preferred).
• Proven background selling data, analytics, or SaaS platforms within technology or data vendor environments.
• Demonstrated track record of driving account expansion, generating outbound opportunities, and closing complex deals.

Nice-to-haves

Hands-on proficiency with modern commercial enablement tools (Salesforce, ZoomInfo, Outreach, LinkedIn Sales Navigator).

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