Senior Account Director

Basingstoke, Reading, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own revenue growth for a channel-focused IT services client by building pipelines, shaping GTM and marketing strategy, and steering high-stakes client engagements with senior stakeholders.

  • Growth & Pipeline: Own the end-to-end process from prospecting to closing with marketing-generated leads and strong pipeline management.
  • Strategic Marketing Consultancy: Lead workshops, planning, campaign development and value proposition work across client orgs.
  • Delivery & Profitability: Monitor campaigns, optimize performance, manage budgets and ensure delivery aligns with client expectations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Achieve individual sales and profitability targets in line with company objectives
  • Build, manage and convert a strong pipeline of new business opportunities through prospecting, networking, referrals and marketing-generated leads
  • Create, lead and respond to proposals, pitches and RFP submissions within your assigned territory
  • Negotiate programme scope, pricing and commercial terms to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes
  • Drive account expansion by identifying follow-on opportunities to create recurring revenues
  • Develop and nurture relationships with a defined portfolio of existing accounts to uncover new opportunities
  • Build trusted relationships with stakeholders across sales, marketing, leadership and technical functions within client organisations
  • Lead client meetings, presentations and business reviews, taking ownership of actions and outcomes
  • Provide strategic marketing guidance and consultancy, including workshops, planning sessions, campaign development, value proposition creation and go-to-market programme support
  • Monitor campaign performance, recommend optimisation strategies and identify opportunities for growth and reinvestment

Requirements

  • Minimum of five years’ experience within the IT channel and technology marketing sectors, preferably including agency experience
  • Strong understanding of channel marketing, go-to-market strategies, partner ecosystems and demand generation programmes
  • A natural, commercially driven relationship manager with the ability to build, develop and maintain trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, from CEO and Managing Director level through to Sales and Marketing leadership
  • Comfortable leading commercial conversations and influencing decisions at a senior level, both internally and externally
  • Target-driven and self-sufficient, with the ability to generate business through networking, social selling and the effective conversion of marketing-generated leads
  • Excellent communication, presentation and networking skills, both written and verbal
  • Creatively minded, able to ask intelligent questions, listen carefully and develop ideas and insights that address client challenges and exceed expectations
  • Confident thinking on your feet, making sound decisions and bold recommendations to achieve the best client outcomes
  • Passion for technology, with a strong understanding of the IT and channel ecosystem and a commitment to staying current with industry trends, emerging technologies and market developments
  • Uses market and industry insight to identify opportunities for business improvement and contribute to the development of internal teams

Preferred

Benefits

  • £75k basic salary, plus commission delivering £100k OTE (uncapped)
  • Hybrid working (3 days per week in stunning, air-conditioned offices in Chineham Park)
  • 22 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays), plus your birthday off if it falls on a workday
  • Laptop and mobile phone
  • Workplace pension with employer contributions
  • Individual Learning Development Plan
  • Christmas shut-down (ResourceiT closes for 2 weeks over Christmas. Employees reserve 3-days from annual leave allocation and the company ‘gifts’ any additional days required)
  • Exposure to AI and modern marketing transformation – internally and with clients
  • Access to major global technology brands
  • Opportunity to shape the commercial strategy to support agency growth and expansion
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ResourceiT

Winners of the Channel Service Provider of the Year - Support category in the 2022 CRN UK Awards, ResourceiT is an 100% IT channel focussed marketing agency, meaning we only work with technology organisations.With over 350+ years of combined channel experience, UK IT businesses would be challenged to find an agency better equipped to deliver marketing ROI.A multi-disciplined agency offering outstanding content creation, demand generation and training services we pride ourselves on the calibre of our team, who all have an IT background. Every member of ResourceiT brings unique customer value, skill, knowledge, and unrivalled passion for channel marketing. As an accredited Great Place to Work, 3rd in the UK for Wellbeing and winner of IAMCP's D&I Award for EMEA, we look after our team, meaning we deliver professional services with bucket-loads of joy!Our people, combined with ResourceiT's over 20 years’ experience delivering >5,000 projects means we drive outstanding marketing results for our clients.

Founded in 2004
Basingstoke, England, GBR
28 employees (14 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
581
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.9%
Direct
35.8%
Referral
13.7%
Social
4.4%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~28

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
10 (36% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2