Senior Account Manager, Commercial +

Vanta · Enterprise · Sydney, Australia · Revenue

Vanta is seeking a Senior Account Manager to manage and grow relationships with their largest APJ customers. This role focuses on post-sales commercial activities, including mid-cycle upsells, cross-sells, and renewals, with the goal of achieving net revenue expansion. The Senior Account Manager will act as a trusted advisor, understanding customer needs and aligning Vanta's solutions to help mature their compliance and security programs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and maintain strong relationships with assigned accounts, acting as a trusted advisor and strategic partner.
  2. Develop a deep understanding of Vanta’s current product offerings and take initiative to learn Vanta’s product roadmap to speak confidently when addressing customers.
  3. Maintain strong partnerships and alignment with CSMs to understand customer health, ensure close strategic collaboration and execute harmonious communication to accounts.
  4. Collaborate on account plans that identify new opportunities for expansion with current customers to increase their usage of Vanta’s platform via new frameworks, security tools, etc.
  5. Manage the entire sales cycle of any expansion or renewal opportunity from first meeting to close, negotiating where necessary and pulling in additional internal resources where appropriate (solutions engineers, subject matter experts, etc).

Skills

Required

  • Account Management
  • Full cycle sales
  • Customer relationship management
  • Sales pipeline management
  • Forecasting
  • Negotiation
  • Communication skills

Nice to have

  • Security and compliance experience
  • AI tool usage

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ years in Account Management, full cycle sales, or related roles
  • Strong ability to prospect and drive expansion pipeline from a set book of current customers
  • Exceptional communication skills (written, verbal, visual), both for internal audiences and customer-facing messaging