Vice President Client Services

Acxiom; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Acxiom seeks a Vice President of Client Success to unify client service delivery, product, and client engagement across the organization. This role serves as the primary client contact, driving measurable value, loyalty, and expansion while guiding strategic plans with senior leadership.

The leader will partner with client management to achieve the strategic roadmap, maintain ownership mindset, and communicate clearly in a fast-paced environment. Travel up to 30% is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or 10+ years of relevant experience in a production, delivery of similar client facing role, and leading and mentoring associates
• Strong negotiating skills in client relationships/solution outcomes and contract development
• Exceptional communication skills across all levels of the organization
• Exposure to P&C insurance industry direct mail, email, and digital customer engagement management solutions

Responsibilities

• Make final decisions on administrative and operational matters for assigned accounts and/or business areas.
• Provide direction to all levels of leadership in various areas, groups, and/or operations.
• Participate in divisional development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people.
• Ensure budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements and understand revenue, expense & gross profit & gross margin metrics.
• Interact with executives and/or major customers and collaborate with sales & client services representatives to achieve objectives.
• Direct and control activities of one or more accounts or broad functional area through multiple Service Partners.
• Have overall control of planning and managing expense priorities and implement changes to methods within the area

Job description

The Vice President of Client Success serves as the connective hub of the organization that synchronizes client service delivery, product, and client engagement. They serve as the primary point of contact between clients and Acxiom, ensuring every engagement delivers measurable value, fosters loyalty, and supports expansion. Through the blending of strategic insight, client expertise, operational excellence & cross-functional leadership, A Client Success leader will drive both stability and forward progress, grounding every engagement in excellence, elevating operations and supporting and partnering with client management leadership to achieve the strategic roadmap for the client relationship. This role will lead with a sense of ownership, communicate with clarity, and adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment. The role will collaborate with other senior leaders to establish strategic and operational plans and objectives and will excel with complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the industry, client, and/or company. Experience with external clients that operate within the Automotive OEM Industry Preferred. This role will also be Involved in developing, modifying and executing company policies that affect immediate operations and may also have company-wide effect.

Job Description

What you will do:

• Make final decisions on administrative and operational matters for assigned accounts and/or business areas. Provide direction to all levels of leadership in various areas, groups, and/or operations.
• Participate in divisional development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people. Ensures budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. Additionally, understands and works to achieve revenue, expense & gross profit & gross margin metrics for the account(s) they are assigned to.
• Regularly interact with executives and/or major customers. Additionally, collaborates with sales & client services representatives to achieve objectives of the client engagement(s). Interactions frequently involve special skills, such as negotiating with customers or management or attempting to influence senior level leaders regarding matters of significance to the account or organization.
• Decisions made in this role will have significant impact on the overall success of account, account portfolio, and/or business area.
• Direct and control the activities of one or more accounts or broad functional area through multiple Service Partners.
• Has overall control of planning and managing expense priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods within his/her area of business.

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s Degree or 10+ years of relevant work experience in a production, delivery of similar client facing role, and leading and mentoring associates
• Specific exposure to P&C insurance industry direct mail, email, and digital customer engagement management solutions for customer acquisition, on-going customer relationship and upsell strategy
• Strong negotiating skills, in both client relationships/solution outcomes as well as contract development
• Exceptional communication skills across all levels of the organization

What will set you apart:

• Master’s Degree
• Strong working knowledge of Acxiom’s products and solutions.

Travel %
<30%

Primary Location City/State:

Conway, Arkansas

Additional Locations (if applicable):

Acxiom is an equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veteran status (EOE/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person’s race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, military status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics or other protected status.

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