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Cori Johnson

Summary

Performance-oriented Sales leader offering exceptional record of achievement. Tenacious Client Manager with strategic and analytical approach to solving problems, bringing in customers and accomplishing profit targets. Talented in identifying and capitalizing on emerging market trends and revenue opportunities.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Client Account Manager II

Reddit, Inc.
01.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for managing a book of 8+ clients in the Restaurant + Beverage industries
  • Obtained over 70% YoY platform budget increases for three clients resulting in over 45% overall revenue growth.
  • Builds client relationships by responding to inquiries, identifying and assessing clients' needs, resolving problems, and following up with potential and existing clients.
  • Conducts external presentations and demonstrations on new product features to encourage feature adoption
  • Works closely with product teams to provide client feedback on current products, alphas, and betas to enhance UX and overall functionality
  • Identifies opportunities to cross or up-sell to clients in order to achieve quarterly goals and increase budget commitments
  • Works cross-functionally with Measurement and Performance teams to create growth opportunities for clients
  • Utilizes metrics to modify low-performing sales and marketing programs and plans to increase effectiveness.
  • Achieves sales goals and service targets by cultivating and growing current customer relationships.

Client Success Manager, Strategic Accounts

LinkedIn
09.2021 - 04.2023
  • Aided clients to achieve digital transformation and YoY growth by leveraging a wide array of LinkedIn solutions and support offerings.
  • Implemented long-standing processes and optimizations that resulted in resulting in 54% increase in performance and a 37% increase in spend QoQ
  • Provided subject-matter guidance for all LinkedIn Marketing features to help educate clients and internal teams on value and use-cases
  • Identified key drivers of growth to increase conversion, expansion, retention and drive execution through iterative testing and learning
  • Advised and educates clients on key marketing strategies to meet and exceed key performance goals including Acquisition (lead generation) Growth, Account-Based, E-mail and Brand marketing
  • Acted as the key subject matter expert for all technical solutions and offerings by training and educating internal and external teams
  • Used Tableau and Merlin to provide insights and data-driven recommendations for clients through client-facing presentations and Excel reports
  • Managed the process of gaining customer feedback to obtain competitive and market insights that can shed light on key needs and inform new products.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with Sales, Technical Delivery, and Engineering teams to execute on and help create playbooks, data points, tools, and resources to main KPIs and drive performance


Client Success Manager (Social)

Skai
06.2020 - 09.2021
  • Responsible for managing the relationship for a book of 14 clients across several different industries
  • Assisted clients with strategic processes and provided with necessary tools to achieve success.
  • Hosted daily status calls and weekly ad hoc meetings with clients to promote client satisfaction and keep all parties abreast of changing environment.
  • Performed troubleshooting of software and hardware to resolve issues and escalated situations to technical department.
  • Contributed to design and implementation of product updates and service transformations based on feedback from customers and frontline knowledge.
  • Established strong relationships with key customers, resulting in increased customer loyalty.
  • Collaborated with sales and product teams to address customer success objectives.
  • Monitored metrics and developed actionable insights to improve efficiency and performance.


Paid Social Lead (North America)

Performics
01.2019 - 06.2020
  • Responsible for media budget allocation, strategy, execution, reporting and insights for all B2B, B2C, and eCommerce North America paid social campaigns.
  • Led social eCommerce strategy and execution that created 42% YoY revenue growth and 396% traffic growth in our North America sectors.


Account Executive, Paid Search, Social + Programmatic

Edelman
01.2018 - 12.2018

Strategized and executed paid promotion campaigns through social, search, display, and programmatic networks across several industries.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - BA - Political Science

University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
05.2017

Skills

  • Jira
  • Merlin
  • Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
  • Paid Media ( Pinterest Ads, Reddit Ads, Meta Ads, X Ads (Twitter)
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Market and Competitive Analysis
  • Revenue Retention
  • Upper, Mid, and Lower Funnel Marketing Strategies
  • Problem Resolution
  • Upselling
  • CRM Software (Salesforce)
  • Analytical Problem Solver

Timeline

Client Account Manager II

Reddit, Inc.
01.2023 - Current

Client Success Manager, Strategic Accounts

LinkedIn
09.2021 - 04.2023

Client Success Manager (Social)

Skai
06.2020 - 09.2021

Paid Social Lead (North America)

Performics
01.2019 - 06.2020

Account Executive, Paid Search, Social + Programmatic

Edelman
01.2018 - 12.2018

Bachelor of Arts - BA - Political Science

University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Cori Johnson