Perk Career Growth & Development

What new skill or role did you want to learn? Why was this important to you?

In my role as an account manager, I help clients optimize their travel strategies by recommending solutions that save time, money and boost efficiency. I always support these recommendations with data. While I joined Perk with a strong foundational understanding of data, I had limited experience with business intelligence visualization tools like Looker. I was eager to develop my skills in this area and really take my knowledge to the next level so I could better serve my clients.

How did your employer help support this time of learning and professional development?
Perk supported my education in many ways. The internal data team offered optional training sessions from beginner to expert levels, which I found incredibly valuable. I also leveraged Perk’s Udemy access to take online courses including those focused on business intelligence. Cross-departmental collaboration is welcomed which made it easy to connect with data team members who were always generous with their time and knowledge. This supportive environment, combined with my manager’s help in balancing my workload, allowed me to start building my own dashboards within weeks.

What was the outcome of this experience? How did it impact your future growth in your profession?
My new data skills have led me to build countless complex reports and dashboards that have been critical to my own role and have been widely used by my team. Now, I can rapidly create extremely specific data visualizations for any client request or question, noticeably increasing my credibility. This valuable, specialized skill has directly contributed to my advancement at Perk from mid-market account manager to senior account manager and, ultimately, to enterprise account manager. This expertise has already proven vital in my current role, and I know it will serve me well throughout my career.