Account Manager (Cork Region)

What's the Opportunity

Daft.ie is moving beyond traditional service models to a Strategic Partnership Framework. As an Account Manager, you will lead a dedicated portfolio of estate agency partners in the Cork region. Your mission is to transition agents from tactical interactions to a high value, long term partnership model. This hybrid role spends 70% of the time farming and scaling revenue within the existing client book, and 30% hunting and winning new high priority partnerships in the territory.

What will I be doing

• Strategic Account Ownership: Take full lead on your accounts, proactively identifying growth opportunities and driving value, focusing on deepening engagement and maximizing long term value.
• The Partnership Rollout: Lead the migration of agents into the Good Better Best (GBB) model, ensuring they are aligned with the package that best fits their market goals.
• ROI Storytelling: Conduct high impact Annual Business Reviews (ABR) and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR). Use data to tell stories that prove the financial return on marketing investments.
• Strategic Hunting: Proactively identify and secure new agency partnerships in the region to expand our market footprint.
• Performance Coaching: Act as a consultant to clients, helping them identify gaps in current performance and coaching on how to leverage visibility tools effectively.
• Commercial Mastery: Deliver complex commercial conversations with confidence, navigating market shifts and competitive dynamics with ease.
• Adoption Advocacy: Drive usage of our efficiency and productivity tools, helping agents buy back time and modernise workflows.

What skills and experience do I need

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in account management or client facing roles, with a proven track record of driving revenue growth.
• Strategic Sales Experience: Proven track record in account management where you have successfully retained and grown high value client relationships.
• The Hybrid Skill Set: Ability to build deep trust over years while maintaining the drive to close new deals and open new doors.
• Communication Mastery: Expert in ROI Storytelling, capable of justifying premium pricing by demonstrating tangible business value.
• Analytical Mindset: Ability to analyze performance data and identify where a client is leaking potential revenue and how to plug those gaps.
• Resilience & Negotiation: Experience in managing difficult commercial conversations and objection handling within a competitive landscape.
• Operational Excellence: Commitment to high standard review cycles and ability to finalize 12 month strategic roadmaps with key stakeholders.

Benefits - what you can expect

• Culture where people look forward to work - whether centrally located in Dublin or working from home.
• Focus on being listened to, trusted, and having fun, learning, and feeling appreciated. Opportunity for career development, growth and progression.
• Equipment support: while MacBooks are standard, we provide the required equipment to perform your job.
• Health and wellbeing focus: life insurance, fully paid healthcare and a 5% pension contribution.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are a diverse bunch of people here in Distilled, and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our Company. We do not discriminate based on gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community.