Sales and Relationship Manager 1 year FTC
Locations: Singapore | Hybrid
Get To Know Us:
Calastone is the largest global funds network, connecting the world's leading financial organisations.
Our mission is to reduce complexity, risk and costs, enabling the industry to deliver greater value to investors. 4,500 clients in 57 countries and territories benefit from Calastone's services, processing over 250 billion of investment value each month.
Calastone is headquartered in London and has offices in Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, New York and Sydney.
Role Purpose
The Associate / Associate Director, Sales and Relationship Manager is responsible for retaining and growing profitable revenues with a portfolio of Calastone Strategic and Growth clients and having overall accountability for the execution of Calastone's client strategy.
High Level Objectives
- Retain existing client revenue by ensuring customer satisfaction through strong relationship management.
- Achieve an annual cross/up sell target for specified product solutions.
- Build strong client business and market knowledge to assist with overall client engagement plan
- Work in partnership with internal teams to become our clients trusted business partners.
- Contribute to building the Calastone brand.
Key Responsibilities External
- Accountable as the Calastone lead on the specific client strategy, engaging across each client's key stakeholders.
- Identify and manage opportunities for networking across different industry groups to support the interests of Calastone customers.
- Strategically profile Calastone with clients on a regular basis in line with corporate messaging.
- Achieve deep understanding of each client's strategic priorities, goals, challenges and their expectations from a service provider.
- Connect high & wide across the decision and influence centres within the client organization and fully understand the political landscape in the client organisation.
- Deploy Calastone executives in a senior coverage capacity to enhance C-level connectivity.
- Understand our client specific competitive landscape and develop competitor counter-strategies.
- Maximise the impact to clients of Calastone thought leadership/industry insights.
- Seek to create a tangible client specific value proposition that is compelling & differentiating.
- Accountable for the quality of client proposals & successfully concluding contract negotiations.
- Ensure smooth and efficient client on-boarding, working closely with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Meter relationship and service efforts and resources according to the strategic and economic value to the organisation.
Key Responsibilities Internal
- Accountable as the lead on the specific client strategy engaging key internal stakeholders in support.
- Accountable for the quality, accuracy & timeliness of defined client data on Salesforce.
- Provide accurate revenue forecasts monthly and annually.
- Develop strong and open working relationships with all internal stakeholders including Management, Sales & RM, Operations, Client Delivery, Marketing, Legal, Finance & Development.
- Provide up to date product and industry knowledge as well as organisational updates.
- Analyse industry news, data & trends to establish Calastone's market position.
- Execute sales & client strategies in line with our Sales & RM methodology and process.
Required Knowledge & Experience
- Proven track record in relationship management, engaging with the C-level within the funds industry.
- Track record of executing sales and client strategies in partnership with multiple internal stakeholders to ensure delivery of operational & service excellence.
- A good understanding of the Calastone business as well as the funds industry, fund trading and the role and strategic objectives of industry participants, such as distributors, fund managers, service providers, custodians, market structures and regulatory framework.
Person Specification
- Strong relationship builder at C level.
- Clear focus and organisational capabilities.
- Excellent communicator with the ability and personal impact to influence the key decision makers.
- Entrepreneurial in spirit but works with and advocates corporate discipline.
- Ability to provide demos for all live Calastone products and services.
- An individual who operates with a high level of honesty and integrity at all times.
- Articulate and able to communicate well in written and spoken English.
- Good level of IT skills.
Competency Development
Committed to further competency development in line with our Sales & RM methodology & process with a focus on Business Insight, Relationship Agility, Value Formation, Executive Connectivity, Political Acumen, Competitive Adeptness, Resource Optimization
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.
