Account Manager
At a glance
Mid-level Account Management role at RELX. Durban_SA · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Champion law school and law firm customers by growing active use of LexisNexis solutions
- Build account plans, uncover sales opportunities, focus selling activity and assess competitor threats
- Present customer-facing messages that explain value and competitive differences
- Research findings and pass useful insights to product, segment and marketing teams
- Carry out marketing approaches that establish LexisNexis as an expert resource for law firms
What you bring
- You can travel locally to meet clients and run your territory with limited supervision
- You have created account plans and coordinated people and resources toward strong client results
- You bring strong networking, judgement, technical knowledge, and written and spoken communication
- You understand relevant products, content or legal practice areas well enough to help sales and marketing
Who this fits
This role suits an independent account manager who builds consultative relationships across law schools and firms. You’ll work with students, faculty, associates, partners and other stakeholders while partnering internally on shared goals. Local client travel is part of the role, with flexible working hours available.
From the employer
Do you enjoy taking a consultative approach to sales?
Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to achieve shared goals?
About our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers in more than 150 countries and has 11,800 employees worldwide. It’s part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.
Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the business and practice of law. We deploy ethical and powerful generative AI solutions through a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritises the best model for each legal use case.
The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists and experts who develop, test and validate solutions in line with the RELX Responsible AI Principles.
About the Role
As an Account Manager III, you’ll manage a territory and build consultative relationships with law schools and law firms. You’ll develop strategic account plans, increase active use of LexisNexis solutions and collaborate with internal teams to deliver value for customers.
Responsibilities
- Advocating for law school and law firm customers to increase active users
- Working effectively with students, faculty, associates, partners and other stakeholders
- Developing strategic account plans, identifying sales opportunities, targeting sales activities and analysing competitor threats
- Delivering customer presentations that communicate our value proposition and competitive differentiation
- Conducting research, analysing findings and sharing insights with product, segment and marketing teams
- Executing marketing strategies that position LexisNexis as an expert source for law firms
Requirements
- Ability to travel locally to meet clients
- Ability to work independently and manage a territory
- Ability to collaborate with a team to achieve shared goals
- Strong networking capabilities, sound judgement and technical knowledge
- Experience developing account plans and coordinating stakeholders and resources to deliver positive client outcomes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Deep product, content or practice-area knowledge, with the ability to support sales and marketing teams
Work in a Way That Works for You
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we’ll help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working Pattern
Working flexible hours—flexing the times when you work during the day to help you fit everything in and work when you’re the most productive.
Working for You
We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we’re delighted to offer:
- Medical Aid
- Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
- Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
- Study Leave
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online through its Lexis® and Nexis® services.






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