Account Manager

Company Description

At Xplor, we believe that helping people make the most of each day is the most rewarding way to spend ours.

We give small and medium-sized businesses cloud-based, intuitive technology solutions that enable them to manage all the hassles of running and growing a business, so business owners can get back to doing what they love. With Xplor Pay, we help businesses get paid quickly and securely – without hidden fees. We built the tech ourselves, and our platform delivers secure, transparent, fast, and accurate payments.

We are unified by our purpose of helping people to succeed. So, when you become part of our team, you also become part of the personal connection that strengthens the relationship people have with Xplor products.

Job Description

Join our Xplor Education Vertical as an Account Manager in Melbourne or New Zealand, to make a real impact every day. We say that because we know that every conversation we have, every code line we write and every interface we design is another opportunity for us to enrich our customers’ experiences. 

Reporting into the Customer Success Team Lead, you will you will work with inbound prospects to sell Discover to new services. You will also serve as the primary point of contact for a provided portfolio of clients, managing and nurturing relationships to ensure satisfaction, retention, and growth (upsell, cross-sell). By serving as a trusted advisor and advocate for our clients and prospects, you will play a critical role in driving customer success and maximising revenue potential in the New Zealand market.  

The refreshed Customer Success Team is dedicated to serving not only our customers but also our stakeholders and employees. We embrace a growth mindset, constantly seeking new opportunities to learn, evolve, and improve. By serving as a trusted advisor and advocate for our Growth Portfolio customers, you will play a critical role in driving customer success and maximising revenue potential.  

Some of the other responsibilities include : 

• You will collaborate closely with our customers to understand their business objectives, anticipate their needs, and identify opportunities to enhance the value of our products/services.
• Manage a portfolio of New Zealand-based accounts   
• Provide personalised service to identified strategic accounts, ensuring high levels of engagement and satisfaction. 
• Use a scaled approach to maximise engagement and reach to efficiently manage interactions and drive sales opportunities 
• Attend and staff trade shows, in-person events, or meetings as needed to support client relationship management and sales efforts.  
• Identify and prioritise upsell, cross-sell and value-add opportunities within your assigned accounts  
• Develop and tailor product demonstrations to address the unique challenges faced by different stakeholders in childcare businesses, focusing on Discover, Playground, and Payments platforms  
• Understand and creatively address childcare centre issues, such as improving ratings for ERO or increasing occupancy, using Xplor’s platform solutions.    
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure seamless service delivery and customer satisfaction, including Customer Support, Training, Sales & Onboarding, Marketing  
• Strong understanding of Xplor Education’s New Zealand product suite, enabling you to provide compelling demos to new business and upsell prospects . 

For this position, we offer a hybrid and flexible working model, where you will spend 2-3 days per week in the office and the rest working from home.

Qualifications

What would make me a good candidate?

We are looking for curious and empathetic people. We also love to hear from people who are motivated by meaningful work, resonate with our four core values, have a positive outlook, are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive working in an ever-evolving and complex environment. We are inspired by meeting big picture thinkers and doers, people who can be both tactical and strategic, aim high and put people first in everything they do.

Required qualifications for this role:

• Strong understanding of Xplor Education’s product suite  
• Ability to demonstrate patience and empathy for customers, helping to problem-solve and develop creative solutions to prevent and ultimately reduce churn 
• Strong Salesforce and MS Excel reporting and analysis skills  
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills  
• Strong stakeholder management skills, ability to lead and work cross-functionally and in teams 
• Be a highly professional lead and team player with a positive, can-do attitude; must be very comfortable with continuously changing opportunities and priorities. 
• Previous experience in childcare or SaaS is preferred but not mandatory. A willingness to learn and adapt to industry-specific challenges is highly valued. 

At Xplor, we believe that the best innovation and ideas happen at the intersections of our differences - people of diverse cultures, generations, disciplines, and lived experiences. So even if you think you do not tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

What does it mean to work for Xplor?

Our four core values - Make life simple, Build for people, Move with purpose and Create lasting communities - are key to who we are and guide us from how we hire to how we recognise our team members.

Some of the perks of working with us:

• Unparalleled opportunities to learn and accelerated career development
• A collaborative, team environment with people who truly love what they do
• 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer
• Unlimited access to Linkedin Learning, 10% of your time devoted to growing you and your career, and further support to help you grow
• Access to mental health support
• Fully flexible work arrangements

How to apply?

To start your application with us, please submit your CV and a cover letter and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word "moonshot" at the top of your cover letter so that we know you really took the time to read our job ad. Your contact is Eric Fallon - TA Partner.

We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process, via [email protected].

More about us 

We're the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards only. Please don't send your application via email.

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers. 

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/recruitment-faqs.

Please note that we do not exclusively rely on artificial intelligence (AI) when making hiring, promotion or any other employment decisions. We don’t have any AI tools in place that are capable of making these kinds of hiring decisions for us.

Xplor is dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

We make it a priority to respond to each person who applies.

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