Advisory Client Relationship Manager
Wayne, PA (Hybrid)
Posted 3 weeks ago
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Job Description
Essential Job Functions
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders at major client organizations, fostering long-term partnerships.
- Own relationship strategy, governance, and executive alignment.
- Oversee retention strategies for the most strategic accounts and guide internal teams to address emerging challenges
- Serve as escalation point for complex client issues, ensuring rapid resolution and long-term satisfaction.
- Develop and maintain account plans to ensure retention, growth, and profitability.
- Lead monthly and quarterly governance meetings, preparing and presenting account performance and roadmap updates
- Drive identification of transformative opportunities and support strategic sales pursuits with deep client insight.
- Partner with Sales and Executive teams to identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities within existing accounts.
- Participate in executive steering committee meetings, contributing client perspective to shape solution strategy.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements or new solutions to enhance customer value and strengthen partnerships.
- Own financial performance of assigned accounts: oversee billing accuracy, forecasting, and profitability targets.
- Monitor and proactively report on risk, opportunities, and billing performance over 3–6 month horizons.
- Partner with finance to ensure alignment with budgetary constraints and revenue recognition standards.
- Oversee Statements of Work (SOWs) to ensure clarity, feasibility, and alignment with both customer needs and organizational goals.
- Provide strategic guidance to project managers and delivery teams, ensuring compliance with best practices and methodologies.
- Ensure implementations are completed on time, within scope, and within budget, driving milestone completion without compromising quality.
- Support Agile planning cycles (releases, sprints) and ensure integration across cross-functional teams.
Required Qualifications / Technical Competencies:
- Industry Knowledge: Experience anticipating industry trends and providing thought leadership on client engagement strategies. Ability to advise product and strategy teams on macroeconomic and regulatory shifts.
- Product & Platform Proficiency: Experience influencing product roadmap by aligning client trends with platform evolution. Experience defining best practices for strategic solution deployment.
- Client Engagement Tools & Systems: Advanced experience establishing enterprise engagement frameworks using advanced tooling and reporting. Experience standardizing scalable account management methodologies.
- Data Analysis & Reporting: Deep experience building business cases from client data to support internal investment or resource changes.
- Issue Tracking & Resolution: Experience leading resolution strategy for systemic or reputational issues. Experience defining enterprise escalation paths and risk management models.
- Communication & Documentation: Experience shaping executive communication templates and contributing to high-visibility messaging. Experience representing the voice of the client in high-level discussions or investor communications.
- Opportunity & Account Management: Experience defining portfolio growth strategies across regions or verticals. Experience partnering with sales and marketing leadership to refine go-to-market strategies for high-value clients.
- Significant experience advising executive stakeholders and leading enterprise-level engagements.
- Expertise in account risk mitigation, enterprise growth, and long-term retention planning.
- Visionary thinking with ability to influence internal product direction based on client needs.
- Proven leadership in mentoring client success teams and defining best practices.
Benefits:
iPipeline is a leading global provider of comprehensive and integrated digital solutions for the life insurance and financial services industries in North America, and life insurance and pensions industries in the UK. iPipeline couples one of the most expansive digital and automated platforms with one of the industry’s largest data libraries to accelerate, automate, and simplify various applications, processes, and workflows – from quote to commission – with seamless integration. The company’s vision is to help everyone achieve lasting financial security by delivering innovative solutions that connect, simplify, and transform the industry. Since its establishment in 1995, iPipeline has helped protect more than 49 million people, and today is trusted around the world by more than 100 insurance carriers, and providers, and more than 2,500 broker-dealers, financial institutions, Brokerage General Agencies (BGAs), Independent Marketing Organizations (IMOs), and Managing General Agents (MGAs). Connected to more than 500,000 agents and advisers/advisors, the company collected more than $33 billion in premium in life insurance and $55 billion in annuities in 2022. iPipeline operates as a business unit of Roper Technologies (Nasdaq: ROP), a constituent of the Nasdaq 100, S&P 500® and Fortune 1000®. For more information, please visit ipipeline.com/ and select your country of origin.
