Small Business Relationship Manager

RELX Inc. Company; Kentucky; Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is seeking a Small Business Relationship Manager to protect and grow revenue within a portfolio of customers. You will build consultative relationships, identify expansion opportunities, drive retention, and help customers maximize the value of Nexis solutions through proactive engagement.

This role requires B2B sales experience, strategic account planning, and the ability to navigate a complex matrixed environment.

Qualifications

• Equivalent professional experience.
• Proven experience in B2B sales, preferably with complex products or solutions.
• Solid strategic account planning and penetration skills.
• In depth industry knowledge and the ability to quickly develop an in depth understanding of LN products and services.
• Experience working as part of a team in a highly complex matrixed corporate environment.
• Understanding and expertise in applications such as AI, Windows XP, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Documented history of sales overachievement.
• Strong time management, organizational and forecasting skills.
• Strong business acumen to understand the impact of your decisions on the territory performance as measured by revenue, profit and customer measures.

Responsibilities

• Develop ways to meet and/or exceed yearly sales targets.
• Exceed weekly activity objectives to support the growth of our customers.
• Develop strategic account plans for all customers in your assigned territory to promote growth and reduce cancels while adding additional services.
• Be able to create risk, sales retention and penetration strategies aimed at positioning Nexis to maximize revenue opportunities, using business analysis tools such as Salesforce, Gong, and Tableau, as well as leveraging usage statistics, competitive analysis, and AI.
• Manage and strategically deploy all resources necessary to secure the business, (i.e. technical and product support, marketing, pricing, etc).
• Develop key contacts and business relationships with influential individuals and high level decision makers to go broader and deeper across your customer base. This will be accomplished through secure first appointments, advancing appointments, closing appointments, consulting sessions and group presentations.
• Develop an in depth understanding of LexisNexis business information solutions and competitive products to present and demonstrate the benefits and advantages of our solutions.
• Handle customer concerns or objections.

Skills

B2B sales

Strategic account planning

Sales targets

CRM (Salesforce)

Prospecting

Objection handling

Tools

Salesforce

Gong

Tableau

Job description

Are you passionate about helping customers achieve greater value from the solutions they rely on every day? Do you enjoy building trusted relationships, identifying growth opportunities, and delivering strategic outcomes in a customer-focused sales environment?

About our Team Nexis® Solutions, as part of LexisNexis and the global RELX corporate family, connects customers to market-leading data through a flexible suite of scalable solutions, including our award-winning, flagship Nexis® research platform. By enabling fast access to a vast universe of enriched data with intelligent technologies, Nexis Solutions empowers business, media, non-profit, government and academic organizations worldwide to quickly discover actionable insights that enable confident, performance-driving decisions.

About the Role As a Small Business Relationship Manager, you will play a key role in protecting and growing revenue within an assigned portfolio of customers. You will build consultative customer relationships, identify opportunities for expansion, drive retention strategies, and help customers maximize the value of Nexis solutions through proactive engagement and strategic account management.

Responsibilities

• Develop ways to meet and/or exceed yearly sales targets.
• Exceed weekly activity objectives to support the growth of our customers.
• Develop strategic account plans for all customers in your assigned territory to promote growth and reduce cancels while adding additional services.
• Be able to create risk, sales retention and penetration strategies aimed at positioning Nexis to maximize revenue opportunities, using business analysis tools such as Salesforce, Gong, and Tableau, as well as leveraging usage statistics, competitive analysis, and AI.
• Manage and strategically deploy all resources necessary to secure the business, (i.e. technical and product support, marketing, pricing, etc).
• Develop key contacts and business relationships with influential individuals and high level decision makers to go broader and deeper across your customer base. This will be accomplished through secure first appointments, advancing appointments, closing appointments, consulting sessions and group presentations.
• Develop an in depth understanding of LexisNexis business information solutions and competitive products to present and demonstrate the benefits and advantages of our solutions.
• Handle customer concerns or objections.

Requirements

• Equivalent professional experience.
• Proven experience in B2B sales, preferably with complex products or solutions.
• Solid strategic account planning and penetration skills.
• In depth industry knowledge and the ability to quickly develop an in depth understanding of LN products and services.
• Experience working as part of a team in a highly complex matrixed corporate environment.
• Understanding and expertise in applications such as AI, Windows XP, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Documented history of sales overachievement.
• Strong time management, organizational and forecasting skills.
• Strong business acumen to understand the impact of your decisions on the territory performance as measured by revenue, profit and customer measures.

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

Primary Location Base Pay Range: Home based-Ohio $56,600 - $94,400. Total Target Cash Range: $87,000 - $145,100.U.S. National Base Pay Range: $59,600 - $99,300, Total Target Cash Range: $91,600 - $152,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. Pay mix between base and variable pay varies based on sales role; please discuss with the recruiter.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

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We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights. LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets and preventing bribery and corruption within their supply chains. We partner with leading global associations and customers to help collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking. We endeavour to advance the rule of law across the world.Our teams are combining unparalleled legal and business information with analytics and technology to advance what’s possible for the way our customers work and to advance what’s possible in the world by strengthening the rule of law.