Client Executive

Orange Business; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Health and well-being programs

Job summary

A leading global company seeks a Talent Acquisition Specialist for its Amsterdam office. This role involves managing key accounts, ensuring client satisfaction, and driving strategic excellence in a multicultural environment while also developing P&L strategies. The ideal candidate will possess strong negotiation and interpersonal skills, along with a deep understanding of the IT services landscape.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of client-facing experience in IT services.
• Strong financial background, experience in P&L management.
• Experience in building client relationships at a strategic level.

Responsibilities

• Establish and own an account governance process.
• Develop, own, and familiarize with the account business plan.
• Manage client relationships and steer account strategies.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Negotiation Skills

Analytical Skills

Education

Degree in business, science/technology, or equivalent relevant experience

Job description

Direct message the job poster from Orange Business

Talent Acquisition Specialist-UK, Europe & US at Orange Business

About the role

Mission based responsibilities

The Client Executive will be assigned to one or more accounts, according to their size and complexity, the customer's expectations, their personal interests, and their individual development plan. In most cases, they will be assigned during the full life cycle of the relevant contracts.

Key accountabilities: Client relationship (Operational Experience & Customer Experience)

Key result/decision areas (outcomes)

Establish and own an account governance process and cadence.

Key stakeholder management at an executive level to maximize OB share of wallet within the account and related entities

Understand the customer’s long-term strategy and financial objectives and steer the Account strategy across the

Customer Team(s) and translate in concrete business outcomes for the customer.

Is the highest escalation point within the Customer Team

Deliver target mNPS taking accountability for improvement plans as appropriate and relevant

Run Quarterly Business Review meetings with the relevant customer stakeholders

Drive continuous improvement cycles with the Customer Team

Pivotal point in Account Ambition plan/review and internal stakeholder alignment

Orchestrating Sales Business Development Manager’s and Orange affiliates on the Account Lifecycle management and continuous improvement

Security and compliance

Growth and profitability:

Develop/own/familiarize the account business plan incl. Customer P&L and Margin improvement (this encompasses a 3y Strategy plan) within the Customer Account Team

Customer team leadership:

Customer team resource management

Steering of the extended customer team

Familiarize and orchestrate the customer team with the Plans/objectives and Orange Business Customer plan/Strategy

Drives the Orange Business Exec sponsor network needed

Accountable for improvement plans as required

Customer Partner interlock (OB partners and customer partner landscape):

Together with the Partner Manager/Team drive close alignment with the vendors that are key to the customer current and future success

Carry overall responsibility for Customer Leading and Lagging Indicators:

• Identify opportunities and follow up until closure in close alignment with the Business Developers of the involved Strategic value proposition teams
• P&L management – Understand account financial analysis and able to initiate and track improvement plan.

Pipeline reviews/management with the involved Business Development Manager’s/Orange Affiliates

Client relationship and stakeholder management at executive level

Transversal people management - Act as a team lead coordinating the account leadership team and capable to make decisions on (dis)engaging people into/from the Customer Account Team based on capabilities and customer (mis)match

Define and execute 3y account strategy and plan

Multicultural – The job will involve working into and across multiple cultures within a multinational client’s organization. Cultural and inter-cultural skills are therefore necessary

About you

Knowledge and abilities:

Strong business and financial acumen

Good knowledge of Orange Business value proposition and solutions

Business Case selling and justification of cost vs outcomes

Good knowledge of Orange Business processes and organization

Excellent organisation, co-ordination, communication, presentation, synthesis and reporting skills

Client focused with strong interpersonal & negotiation skills

Teambuilder, used to work with different cultures and to work in a virtual matrix team environment.

Ability to innovate and find improved ways of doing things

Good understanding of major trends in IT (cloud-first, zero trust, marketplace, NextGen AI)

Comprehensive management experience, strong leadership skills and able to work under pressure

Analytical skills combined with a drive to grow Orange Business share of wallet

Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English language

Strategic thinker and able to act at CxO level

Good knowledge on AGILE@

Education, qualifications, and certifications:

Degree in business, science/technology (or other relevant area), or equivalent relevant experience with a demonstrable commitment to self-development

Negotiation skills and Business case justification sales mode

Strong financial background - experience (P&L management)

Experience:

Minimum of 10 years of client facing experience in IT services

Experience in selling complex IT services/solutions

Experience in building client relationships at a strategic level

Experience in managing geographically distributed teams

Additional information

What we offer:

Work in multi-national teams with the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world

Flexible work environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from the office and home (hybrid ways of working)

Professional development: training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities

Career growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange

Caring and daring culture: health and well-being programs and benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, CSR, and employee connect events

Reward programs: Employee Referral Program, Change Maker Awards

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Customer Service

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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