About the Role
LinkedIn's Marketing Solutions business is looking for a Lead Client Solutions Manager to empower businesses to reach, engage, and convert their target audience at scale. This role involves building and managing client relationships, serving as a trusted advisor, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive growth within key accounts.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate deep expertise in LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) products and services.
- Educate and scale LMS knowledge across teams and clients.
- Present LMS value propositions effectively to senior leadership and C-Suite stakeholders.
- Lead all post-sale activities including strategic planning, execution, performance measurement, and optimization of LMS solutions.
- Display strong sales excellence, with a focus on transforming customer outcomes.
- Collaborate with clients to co-create long-term growth plans that drive increased customer spend and engagement.
- Act as a trusted advisor, understanding customers' business objectives and challenges across the sales funnel.
- Map customer goals to LMS solutions, identifying opportunities to drive business results through innovative, industry-specific solutions.
- Provide industry thought leadership to clients, leveraging deep insights to inform their marketing strategies and solve specific business challenges.
- Utilize persona, media, and industry expertise to design custom solutions that create a competitive edge for customers.
- Serve as a strategic partner to senior leadership and key decision-makers, helping them navigate investment decisions and maximize media mix effectiveness.
- Collaborate with LinkedIn’s marketing and product teams to inform solution development and customer-facing strategies.
- Provide thought leadership on advanced measurement solutions, ensuring clients can measure and optimize the performance of their LinkedIn investments.
- Teach customers advanced measurement techniques at scale, while also supporting the development of LinkedIn’s measurement capabilities.
- Stay informed of industry trends such as privacy, identity, and data security, advising customers on how these changes impact their business and media strategies.
- Embody LinkedIn’s values, championing Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIBs) initiatives and fostering a culture of allyship and inclusion.
- Lead by example, encouraging a growth mindset and helping others through change, both internally and with clients.
- Collaborate across internal teams, influencing without direct authority to act as the voice of the customer in product development and value delivery.
- Drive conversations with key internal and external stakeholders to accelerate value creation and build long-term customer partnerships.
- Share best practices and impactful strategies, mentoring and teaching others within the team to improve processes, systems, and customer experiences.
- Develop and share customer case studies that highlight success stories and scalable approaches.
- Demonstrate excellence in sales operations, pipeline hygiene, and account management.
- Teach and coach peers and customers on how to leverage internal systems and processes to create value and differentiation.
- Develop accurate and advanced sales forecasting methodologies, mentoring peers to enhance pipeline accuracy.
- Meet or exceed business KPIs as defined by Segment/Market Sales Leadership, consistently driving for results and value creation.
- Coach customers on becoming self-sufficient in managing their LinkedIn investments, empowering them to optimize their spend and scale their own internal training programs.
- Jointly design long-term growth strategies with top customers, proactively anticipating needs and reshaping conversations to maximize digital investment and wallet share.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in digital marketing.
- 6+ years of experience in client-facing roles with internal or external stakeholder management experience.
- 5+ years of work experience in digital media sales, account management or a closely related function.
- Business fluency English.
Skills
- Solution based selling
- Global media selling
- Collaboration
- Stakeholder management
- Experience in global media client management
- Experience of thriving in a results-driven environment
- Experience of using insights to drive commercial success
- Experience of and/or passion for digital media
- Experience managing a large range of advertising budgets and campaigns
- Ability to translate analytics and present them as insights and recommendations in a client facing setting
- Ability to drive results and collaborate with major customers, creating relationships across many levels of a client
- Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little supervision
- Ability to work independently and collaborate cross-functionally
- Understanding of internet advertising technology and marketing automation
Location
- London, United Kingdom
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- IC3/SA8
About the Company
- LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.
- Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day.
- We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth.
- We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
- Join us to transform the way the world works.
Equal Opportunity
- Global Data Privacy Notice and Compliance Posters for Job Candidates
- Please use this link to access documents that provide information about how LinkedIn handles the personal data of employees and job applicants, as well as the E-Verify Participation Notice and the Department of Justice Immigrant and Employee Rights Section Right to Work posters: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/candidate-portal.
