Account Manager

POLITICO Europe; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Healthcare

Training opportunities

Flexible work options

Job summary

POLITICO Europe is seeking an Account Manager to grow and retain subscriptions for POLITICO Pro in the United Kingdom. Based in London, this full-time role involves owning accounts, renewing contracts, and driving revenue while building relationships with government, trade associations, corporates, and NGOs.

You'll report to the Sales Manager in Brussels, work with the London new business team, and operate with autonomy across two on-site days per week.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in B2B sales or account management.
• University degree required; international experience is a plus.
• Fluency in English; additional European language is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own a pool of accounts and ensure top service delivery.
• Renew multi-year contracts and grow renewal value.
• Build relationships with decision-makers across government and industry.
• Solicit feedback on content and service delivery to improve Pro.
• Represent POLITICO at member briefings and industry events.

Skills

Account management

Relationship building

Negotiation

CRM usage

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Job Description

POLITICO is looking for an Account Manager to grow and retain the subscriptions that put our intelligence in front of the people shaping policy in the United Kingdom. POLITICO Pro is the subscription service that policy professionals rely on to understand what is coming before it arrives. Our UK customers include government departments, trade associations, corporates, law firms, consultancies and NGOs, organizations for whom being early on a policy decision is worth a great deal.

This role is about keeping those relationships strong and growing them. Our contracts run from one to five years, and when they come up for renewal, you make the case for what comes next. It is a straightforward commercial job with one clear number to hit and a product that sells itself when explained well.

The successful candidate will be persuasive in more than one language, comfortable owning a target, and genuinely driven to succeed. You will work alongside our London new business team and report to our Sales Manager in Brussels, so you will need the autonomy to run your own week.

This is a full-time role based in our London office, with two days a week on site.

Who You Are

• You speak at least two languages fluently (English being one of them).
• You build relationships easily, and you are good in a room.
• You can work autonomously.
• You’re skilled at cultivating long-term relationships with clients and agencies, earning trust through transparency, responsiveness, and results.
• You thrive on uncovering client needs and developing thoughtful, creative solutions that align with their goals.
• You’re motivated by outcomes and how to measure success- whether through campaign performance, client satisfaction, or revenue growth.
• A data-informed decision-maker who leverages Salesforce or other CRM and performance metrics to drive growth

What You’ll Do

• Own a pool of accounts, having full ownership of the service provided, and ensuring they get the best delivery from Politico Professional Services
• Renew multi-year contracts and grow their value at renewal
• Build and maintain relationships with decision-makers across government, industry, associations and advisory firms
• Solicit feedback on content and delivery of services, and channel market feedback to improve upon Pro service offerings/user experience
• Represent POLITICO at member briefings, network events and industry conferences

What You’ll Need

• 3-5 years of professional experience, including business-to-business sales or account management
• Excellent communication skills, entrepreneurial mind set and strong client service ethic
• Exposure to Salesforce or other CRM tools is preferred
• Interest in and understanding of current political and policy issues is a plus
• A university degree is required; international experience is a plus
• Written and verbal fluency in English is required, and any other European language is a plus.

We value our people

Our Benefits Package Is Built For You, And Includes

Our teams benefit from country-specific, competitive compensation + bonus based on your personal performance, plus benefits packages including pension, healthcare, training opportunities, and more.

With a multinational team, strong ties to EU institutions, and flexible work options, including working from abroad, we offer an environment that supports both professional and personal development.

Transportation: Say goodbye to traffic jams and hello to smooth commutes. POLITICO partially covers public transportation costs.

About Us

POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital.

Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.

Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist.

Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.

These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.

POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company's guiding principles - first articulated as The Essentials by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company's foundation today. Learn more about Axel Springer.

Title

Account Manager