Dealer.com Performance Manager

Performance Manager

The Dealer.com Performance Manager is expected to build and maintain relationships with external clients and ensure client needs are the driving force behind priorities, decisions, and activities in order to ensure success through product utilization, product upgrades, group harvest sales, and revenue retention. The Performance Manager owns the client relationship on behalf of the company and will act as the client advocate internally by communicating the client's needs to various departments. The Performance Manager works remotely under limited supervision and is responsible for protecting monthly revenue where no long term client contracts may be in place. The Performance Manager is also responsible for identifying the level of customer interest in additional products, harvesting additional accounts, and expanding / upselling product functionality to potentially increase revenue growth across their client base. The Performance Manager is expected to collaborate with other Performance Managers to ensure clients with multiple products encounter a seamless and consistent experience. This is a regional position. Preference will go to applicants living in the listed Pacific, Mountain, and Central states.

What You'll Do :

• Responsible for external client and revenue retention by working independently to effectively managing the progress and results of all accounts assigned within their portfolio.
• Build upgrade / harvest revenue opportunities and maintain relationships with a portfolio of clients to ensure client goals are the driving force behind priorities, decisions, and activities with a portfolio of clients and ensure customers' needs are the driving force behind every priority, decision, and activity.
• Retain clients by engaging with each client through virtual screen share engagements and occasional onsite visits that increase product utilization, improved processes and client goal attainment to drive valuable insights to increase product utilization and improving client's business processes and helps them meet their objectives.
• Build and develop strong working relationships with clients and all client staff at all levels from within the dealership.
• Works with 'at risk' clients, using Consultative strategies to identify and develop an action plan to turn around and retain the relationship.
• Identify key barriers and core problems with their client's situations preventing them from meeting business objectives.
• By using independent thought and problem-solving skills along with strategic insight to make recommendations to accomplish client goals.
• Demonstrate responsiveness to client contact and provide guidance they need, not just what they ask for.
• Proven ability to influence clients on how to use and leverage the capabilities of the product to meet their business objectives.
• Monitor and analyze account performance and trends to determine adjustments to dealer expectations / goals / objectives in order to achieve results.
• Closely monitor system 'red flags' / emergencies with clients and take immediate action.
• Improve existing processes & systems using conceptualizing, reasoning & interpretation during engagement with clients.
• Responsible for maintaining product knowledge and trainings, including new releases and enhancements to products in their direct AOR.
• Works Independently to identify and moderate complex issues.
• Conducts analysis using independent thought to make recommendations to clients to build ROI in the software.
• Serve as a point of assistance to new or lower-level PMs through job shadowing.
• May provide general guidance / direction or train new or less experienced performance managers.
• Performs full range of performance management responsibilities that typically requires processing and interpreting, more complex, less clearly-defined client issues.
• Consistently able to maintain client relationships and internal metrics.
• Asked to assist or own special projects including but not limited to Dealer workshops / webinars, product ownership, new hire training, Attend outside Vendor events (NADA, Digital Dealer, Etc.)
• Complete internal tasks and trainings in a timely manner
• All other duties as assigned.

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Compensation : Compensation includes a base salary of $73,200.00 - $109,800.00. The salary rate may vary within the anticipated range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's experience. In addition to the salary range identified herein, this role is also eligible for an annual incentive / commission target of $27,000.00. Benefits : The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.