About the Role
The Account Management Lead will manage and grow a portfolio of named Financial Markets accounts, owning revenue targets and identifying expansion opportunities. This role involves developing deep client relationships, generating new leads, and positioning Sutherland’s professional services.
Responsibilities
- Manage and grow a portfolio of named Financial Markets accounts
- Own account-level revenue targets, with responsibility for expansion, renewals, cross-sell, and upsell opportunities
- Develop deep client relationships across Research, Strategy, Investment Operations, Data, Analytics, Finance, and CXO-level stakeholders
- Identify new opportunities within existing accounts by understanding client priorities, operating challenges, budget cycles, and transformation agendas
- Generate new leads through disciplined outreach, referrals, client mapping, industry research, thought leadership follow-up, and relationship-led prospecting
- Build account plans for key clients, including stakeholder maps, current engagement footprint, whitespace opportunities, competitor presence, and growth strategy
- Position Sutherland’s high-end professional services across Investment Research, Portfolio Monitoring, Market Research, ESG Research, Investment Reporting, Automation, & Analytics
- Collaborate with Sales, Delivery, Solutioning, Research Leadership, and offshore subject matter experts to shape relevant client propositions
- Support proposal development, commercial discussions, pricing inputs, solution design, and contract renewal processes
- Deliver high-quality pitches and business reviews to senior stakeholders
- Maintain a disciplined account management cadence, including pipeline tracking, opportunity follow-up, CRM hygiene, revenue forecasting, and client touchpoint planning
- Ensure client satisfaction by proactively identifying service issues, escalation risks, delivery gaps, and opportunities to improve engagement quality
- Partner with delivery teams to ensure Sutherland is viewed as a strategic partner
- Support marketing and dissemination of thought leadership at various industry forums
- Travel as required for client meetings, account reviews, industry events, etc
Requirements
- Minimum of 6 - 10 years of progressive experience in account management, business development, enterprise sales, or client relationship management
- Strong understanding of Financial Markets, including Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private Equity, Sell-side Research, Investment Operations, and Research & Analytics services
- Experience managing named accounts, developing account plans, identifying whitespace opportunities, and growing revenue within existing client relationships
- Commercially astute, financially literate, and comfortable discussing research, analytics, data, reporting, and managed services with senior client stakeholders
- Experience selling or managing professional services, research services, offshoring, outsourcing, analytics, data management, or financial services solutions is highly desirable
- Strong client service orientation with the ability to build trusted, long-term relationships across multiple stakeholder levels
- Strong sales discipline, including pipeline creation, opportunity qualification, revenue forecasting, proposal coordination, and follow-through
- Strong presentation, communication, and negotiation skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders at Head of Function and CXO levels
- Previous experience in a front-office, research, investment operations, consulting, or financial services environment will be an added advantage
Skills
- Account Management
- Business Development
- Enterprise Sales
- Client Relationship Management
- Financial Markets Understanding
- Account Planning
- Revenue Growth
- Commercial Acumen
- Financial Literacy
- Professional Services Sales
- Research Services Sales
- Offshoring/Outsourcing Sales
- Analytics Sales
- Data Management Sales
- Financial Services Solutions Sales
- Client Service Orientation
- Sales Discipline
- Pipeline Creation
- Opportunity Qualification
- Revenue Forecasting
- Proposal Coordination
- Presentation Skills
- Communication Skills
- Negotiation Skills
Work Type
- Travel as required
Experience Level
- 6 - 10 years
Education Level
- Graduate degree required
- Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related discipline preferred
About the Company
- Sutherland’s Research & Financial Markets division drives high-impact transformation agenda to address our clients’ most complex business issues - from digital transformation and strategic cost management to operating model redesign, research enablement, analytics, automation, and managed service delivery.
- Typical client segments include Investment Banks, Asset Management firms, Private Equity firms, Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Sell-side Research firms, large Corporates, and other Financial Markets institutions.
- Sutherland Research has made significant investments in building differentiated solutions that help Financial Institutions reimagine how research, analytics, investment operations, portfolio monitoring, reporting, data management, and decision-support functions are delivered.
- Our solutions combine domain expertise, global delivery capability, AI-enabled workflows, and operating discipline to help clients improve efficiency, scalability, quality, and insight generation.
- Our teams help clients architect future-state operating models, enhance service operations, expand research and analytics capacity, and maximize value from Sutherland’s engagement.
Equal Opportunity
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
- During employment, employees are treated without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, or any other legally protected status.
- Periodic reports are made to the government on the following information. The completion of the Administrative EEO record is optional.
- If you choose to volunteer the requested information, please note that all Administrative EEO Records are kept in a Confidential File and are not part of your Application for Employment or Personnel file.
- YOUR COOPERATION IS VOLUNTARY. INCLUSION OR EXCLUSION OF ANY DATA WILL NOT AFFECT ANY EMPLOYMENT DECISION.
