Client Account Manager

Location:

Camberley (Hybrid)

Report to:

Managing Director

Salary:

Competitive

Hours:

Perm 37 hours a week (Monday to Thursday 9 am-5.30 pm, Friday 9 am-5 pm)

Company Overview :

Established in 2006, FluidOne is an award-winning provider of Connected Cloud Solutions with a £113m turnover and focus on customer service, consistently achieving one of the highest Net Promoter Scores (NPS) in the industry, securing 81 for October 2024. Underlying its services is FluidOne’s national fibre network, Platform One, which is the most connected network in the UK. FluidOne has a strong company culture enjoyed by 540 staff and was ranked in the top 50 Best Companies to work for in the UK awards 2023 and in the top 25 Technology companies to work for in the UK.

FluidOne supports the needs of 2400 customers, including 200 channel resellers, with services covering connectivity, SD-WAN, cyber security, IT managed services, mobile, IoT, UCaaS and CCaaS. Addressing the needs of SME, mid-market and Enterprise, FluidOne consults with its customers to design solutions that complement their in-house IT structures. FluidOne takes complex hybrid multi-site environments and makes them simple and secure, so end-users can access their business applications wherever they are.

Led by CEO Russell Horton, co-founder Chris Rogers (who started the business in 2006), CFO Roy Hastings and CRO Simon Ward, the management team is backed by Livingbridge to support their ambitious long-term strategy.

 

Role Overview

 

You will provide a consistently high level of customer service, support and guidance to our clients, acting as the bridge between them and our technical teams. Relationship management for a portfolio of clients, understanding their needs and developing an ongoing strategy with them, and delivering that strategy through the provision of correct products and services, alongside the management and delivery of projects on time and in budget. Whilst this is not specifically a technical role, previous sales and account management in the technology sector is essential.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Managing a portfolio of clients and creating a trusted relationship with them.
  • Organisation and tracking client review meetings, creating & managing client IT roadmaps & risk registers.
  • Attending client review meetings and articulating IT Strategy into easy-to-understand language and carrying out presentations to key decision makers within the Client Business.
  • Working with our in-house Solution Architects and Technical Account Managers in understanding technical and business requirements and turning them into deliverable IT projects.
  • Working with the Technical teams to spec out and quote project work.
  • Project Management, resource scheduling, stakeholder relationship management and client communications during new installations/projects.
  • Tracking open action lists, and ensuring actions are completed on time and to a high quality, working closely with the Technical Support teams.
  • Preparing and issuing proposals, quotes and invoices; prompt delivery of monthly client reports.
  • Working alongside Project Support to track software and hardware renewals across an assigned portfolio of existing clients.
  • Helping clients understand new technology solutions and how to protect them.
  • Preparing for, organising, and undertaking Discovery Audits for new/potential clients.
  • Organising and chairing New Client On-Boarding Planning and Review meetings.

 

Key Requirements:

  • ​Background in IT/technology sector.
  • ​Able to demonstrate good commercial and financial acumen with an ability to spot commercial and sales opportunities.
  • Well presented, genuine, open, and trustworthy.
  • Highly organised and proactive – capable of managing your own workload and priorities.
  • Positive, confident, with an outgoing personality and a ‘can do’ attitude.
  • Driving licesne.

 

Benefits after probationary period:

  • Employee Assistance programme.
  • (EAP)Life assurance.
  • (3x salary)Sodexo Discount Platform
  • FluidOne breakfast and refreshments on working days
  • Pension contribution- 5% company contribution
  • Generous Holiday Entitlement
  • One day off for Birthday
  • Half price internet connectivity
  • Ride2Work scheme

 

How to apply:

Send CV with covering letter to recruitment@fluidone.com with the job title as the subject field.

FluidOne is an equal opportunities provider and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.