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About Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions

Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions is a leading provider of enterprise legal management solutions that help corporate legal departments manage their legal operations, matters, outside counsel, legal spend, and performance.

Our solutions, including Passport, TyMetrix 360°, and LegalVIEW BillAnalyzer, support some of the world's largest and most complex corporate legal departments. We combine enterprise technology, deep legal domain expertise, data, analytics, and AI to help customers improve operational efficiency, control legal spend, make better decisions, and demonstrate the value of the legal function.

Our customers include leading organizations across financial services, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, technology, and other industries.

Position Summary

The Account Manager is responsible for protecting and growing the commercial relationship across an assigned portfolio of WK ELM customers. The Account Manager owns renewal and expansion strategy, opportunity execution, pricing, contracting, revenue forecasting, and the commercial account plan.

The Account Manager serves as a strategic commercial advisor to General Counsel, Legal Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Technology stakeholders. The role develops a strong understanding of the customer's business priorities, buying process, competitive environment, and growth potential, then translates customer needs and demonstrated value into clear renewal and expansion strategies.

This is a senior individual-contributor role requiring executive presence, sound commercial judgment, disciplined account leadership, and the ability to navigate complex enterprise relationships. The Account Manager is expected to anticipate risk and opportunity, mobilize cross-functional resources, and influence outcomes without direct authority.

Customer Success leads the customer success plan, adoption, customer health, value realization, and risk recovery. Account Management leads renewal execution, expansion, pricing, contracting, and the commercial forecast. The two roles partner on account planning, executive alignment, retention, and sustainable growth.

The Account Manager partners closely with Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Support, Product, Professional Services, Solution Consulting, Finance, and Legal to present one coordinated WK ELM strategy to the customer and deliver against commercial commitments.

Key Responsibilities

Commercial Account Strategy & Ownership

- Develop and execute commercial account plans for assigned customers

- Establish clear renewal, retention, and expansion objectives for each account

- Understand the customer's business priorities, commercial environment, buying process, and competitive landscape

- Maintain stakeholder maps that identify executive sponsors, champions, decision makers, economic buyers, Procurement, Legal, Finance, and Technology stakeholders

- Identify risks to revenue retention or growth and lead the appropriate commercial response

- Maintain accurate and current account, opportunity, contact, and activity information in the CRM

Renewal & Retention Management

- Own the renewal timeline, commercial strategy, forecast, negotiation, contract execution, and close

- Begin renewal planning in accordance with the established renewal cadence and maintain a clear mutual action plan through signature

- Use customer health, adoption, value realization, and risk insights from Customer Success to shape the renewal strategy

- Develop pricing, term, packaging, and multiyear strategies that support customer value and WK ELM objectives

- Lead engagement with Procurement, Legal, Finance, and other commercial stakeholders.

- Coordinate internal approvals for pricing, concessions, contract terms, and deal structure.

- Identify and address competitive threats, commercial objections, and barriers to renewal.

- Share accountability with Customer Success for retention while remaining directly accountable for commercial renewal execution and forecast accuracy.

Growth & Expansion

- Own expansion pipeline, opportunity strategy, commercial execution, and close within assigned accounts

- Qualify customer needs and expansion signals identified through Customer Success, account engagement, product usage, or market insight

- Position WK ELM capabilities across Passport, TyMetrix 360°, LegalVIEW BillAnalyzer, Legal Collaborator, AI, and related offerings

- Lead discovery and partner with Solution Consulting, Product, Professional Services, and Customer Success to develop compelling business cases and value propositions

- Expand relationships across Legal, Legal Operations, the executive team, Finance, Procurement, and Technology

- Maintain accurate expansion pipeline, close plans, next steps, and revenue forecasts

- Drive cross-sell, upsell, platform adoption, additional users, modules, data, AI capabilities, and services where aligned to customer priorities

Executive & Commercial Relationship Management

- Build credible relationships with General Counsel, Legal Operations leaders, executive sponsors, economic buyers, Procurement, and other senior stakeholders

- Lead strategic commercial discussions and establish alignment on the long-term WK ELM relationship

- Partner with Customer Success on Quarterly Business Reviews and Executive Business Reviews, leading commercial strategy, renewal, and growth discussions

- Develop executive sponsorship and mobilize WK ELM leadership when executive engagement will advance retention or growth

- Understand customer organizational dynamics, decision criteria, budget cycles, and approval processes

- Represent the commercial voice of the customer internally, including buying barriers, competitive context, and investment priorities

Forecasting & Operational Discipline

- Maintain complete, accurate, and timely renewal and expansion forecasts

- Apply the required sales methodology, qualification standards, opportunity stages, and inspection cadence

- Create and maintain close plans and mutual action plans with clear owners, milestones, decision criteria, and dates

- Communicate material changes to timing, value, probability, risk, or customer commitment promptly

- Manage account pipeline coverage and progression with the same discipline applied to new logo opportunities

- Deliver clear account updates, risk assessments, and recommended actions in forecast and executive reviews

Cross-Functional Leadership

- Partner with Customer Success to align the commercial account plan with the customer success plan and value realization priorities

- Use Customer Success insights on adoption, health, stakeholder engagement, and outcomes to inform renewal and expansion decisions

- Partner with Technical Account Management, Support, and Professional Services on service or delivery matters that create commercial risk or opportunity

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