Strategic Account Director

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The Role:

Crafty is seeking a seasoned Account Director to lead our client relationships with our largest enterprise clients. Your main area of responsibilities: client happiness, retention, and growth.

Client Happiness, Retention and Growth

  • You will ensure that your clients receive the highest level of service with a focus on constantly evolving client programming across all of their workplace locations
  • Develop a strong understanding of client business needs and pain points and develop plans to address those needs
  • Proactive client management, including client communication and outreach, fielding client requests at the national level, and working with local account teams on fulfillment of those needs
  • Develop a customer success journey to outline desired outcomes and the milestones to achieve
  • Continued client education to introduce new technology features, program offerings and expectation setting
  • Maintain aesthetic and product standards and consistency across national locations
  • Own and optimize client level P&L for specific book of business
  • Effectively managing client budgets
  • Accurately execute monthly billing and invoicing in coordination with local teams
  • Identifying additional program growth opportunities within existing clients
  • Work to re-sign clients at contract renewals
  • Responsible for working with the Sales teams to onboard and integrate new national clients and developing existing client relationships
  • Lead and conduct regular business reviews with clients to review their programming and its needed evolution
  • Works with local operations teams to offer the client a cohesive national experience

Internal project management for each client implementation across markets

  • Project manage new service opportunity development with a client - pulling together all relevant parties to execute on the service needed
  • Leading weekly meetings about client evolution / client needs
  • Maintain client project management overview and proactively communicate the statuses of open projects and all open items
  • Working with tech team to consistently delivery national client experience / feedback into our product
  • Working with our partner teams to ensure that everyone has the latest information on client opportunities, needs, and issues to ensure we are delivering the absolute best client experience
  • In current markets, lead the charge on new space buildouts with our clients
  • In new markets, partner with the local account management team and implementation team to onboard a new client location

In addition, you will work alongside other Crafty teams to work on cross-functional projects that create a better operation and product for the entire Crafty client network!

This role reports directly to the Director for Client Success. 


Who you are:

Your Experience

  • 7+ years in an Client Success role
  • 2+ years in a Project Management / Consulting role or with equivalent PM experience
  • Experience working cross-functionally effectively 
  • Food & Beverage experience (nice to have)

Your Proficiencies

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Google Suite
  • Project management platforms (Asana, etc)
  • Customer Relationship Management platforms (HubSpot, Zoho, Salesforce, etc)

Your Talents

  • A client obsessed individual with a commitment to having a client-first approach. The client is at the center of everything you do and you are not satisfied unless the client is satisfied.
  • You’re a fixer by nature. You sniff out problems before they start and solve them before they fester. 
  • A strong project manager with the ability to oversee all aspects of an extremely complex and evolving business.
  • Self starter who is extremely results and detail-oriented.  Extremely hard working.  We are a startup with the mentality that no job is too big or too small for us.  You are resourceful and hustle because that’s just how you work.
  • Calm and collected in the line of fire. On a day where everything that could go wrong has gone wrong, you find a way to stay positive.
  • Passionate about growth.  We have a bright future ahead, which depends on our team’s spirit, morale, and work ethic.
  • Extraordinarily organized. Detail-orientation is an absolute must. You have tried-and-true methods in your arsenal for staying organized and on top of it all. 
  • Quick learner. You can pick up anything with minimal interaction or teaching and can teach the next person just as well as you learned it. 
  • Adaptable. As the circumstances change, you change your focus with it.


Must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination by date of hire to be considered. Proof of vaccination required.

You are considered fully vaccinated:

  • 14 days after your dose of an accepted single-dose vaccine
  • 14 days after your second dose of an accepted 2-dose series
  • 14 days after you've received 2 doses of any "mix-and-match" combination of accepted COVID-19 vaccines administered at least 17 days apart.

If you do not meet these requirements, you are NOT considered fully vaccinated.



Who we are: 

Crafty’s mission is to help companies craft better workplaces by providing the services and technology to deliver a modern, comprehensive food & beverage program for their employees, no matter where they work.  After operating with a vertically integrated supply chain (i.e., directly fulfilling orders from Crafty-operated distribution centers) in Chicago and the Bay Area, our team launched a third party fulfillment model that has rapidly scaled our coverage into over 25 markets globally, in just a year’s time.

At Crafty, we have a diverse, high-powered team, comprised of folks in technology, supply chain operations, field operations, sales, account management, and more. Our workplace is dynamic, fast-paced, and just plain fun; we pride ourselves in having an amazing mix of humans who make up our team!


What we offer:

Our people mean everything to us. When you join Crafty, you’re joining a team of passionate, smart hooligans who work incredibly hard and know how to get things done. Building the structure to support our team as it continues to grow will have a tremendous impact in enabling our growth today and shaping the company that we become.

We are proud to offer a compensation package that includes an option to join our Crafty healthcare plan to cover health, dental, and vision plans, 401k, paid time off, equipment certification courses, parental leave, and employee stock options. And, it goes without saying, but snacks, beverages, and fun Crafty events are a part of that!

Crafty provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without discriminating against race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
    • RubyLanguages
    • ReactLibraries
    • Ruby on RailsFrameworks
    • PostgreSQLDatabases
    • Google AnalyticsAnalytics
    • TableauAnalytics
    • AbstractDesign
    • FigmaDesign
    • IllustratorDesign
    • InVisionDesign
    • MiroDesign
    • PhotoshopDesign
    • SketchDesign
    • AsanaManagement
    • ConfluenceManagement
    • Google DriveManagement
    • Google DocsManagement
    • Google SlidesManagement
    • TrelloManagement
    • WordpressCMS
    • HubSpotCRM
    • ApolloLead Gen

Location

Crafty’s HQ is located in the Central Loop in the heart of downtown Chicago. In the middle of Chicago’s tech hub and surrounded by historical architecture, with a gorgeous view of the Chicago River, we are steps away from some of the city’s best restaurants, shops, and our world-famous riverwalk.

An Insider's view of Crafty

How does your team reward individual success?

At Crafty, if you have something nice to say about a teammate, you say it often and you say it loudly. You can nominate people for company value awards, but there's already an established culture of giving meaningful praise whenever it strikes us. It doesn't matter if you don't feed off of it, it's happening whether you're in the room or not.

Jane

Sr. Brand Content Specialist

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

The technology we build is an integral part of the day to day operations for other teams. We work with them to create new tools and features that will help them serve our clients and make our operations run as smoothly as possible. This makes our collaboration with other teams unique in that they become our users or stakeholders!

Kelleyq

Product Manager

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

Working at Crafty allows me to flex my food and beverage skills AND expand my expertise. I’ve learned all about account management, procurement, and delivery operations. Being part of a startup that values transparency gives me a strong grasp on how each piece of a company complements the other and provides endless opportunities for growth.

James

Catering Support Specialist

How do you make yourself accessible to the rest of the team?

To continue to grow and scale at Crafty, it’s important that we make a conscious effort to put our people first. I have told each and every one of my team members that I lead with a Servant Leadership mindset - giving them the guidance and resources to do their jobs, while valuing them as people and trusting them to innovate and make decisions.

Sarah

Sr. Director of Marketing

What makes someone successful on your team?

Being on the Crafty team means being truly valued, seen, and respected - no matter what role you play. As a veteran barista in the Chicago service industry, I can tell you - that's kind of everything. At Crafty, EVERY person is an essential part of the whole.

Kat

Field Coordinator

What are Crafty Perks + Benefits

Culture
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Highly diverse management team
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance + Wellness
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Vacation + Time Off
Generous PTO
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Relocation assistance
Professional Development
Promote from within
Online course subscriptions available
Paid industry certifications

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