The Role
We are looking for a Strategic Account Manager to own client relationships, manage expectations, and ensure commitments are delivered.
This role acts as the critical bridge between our operations teams and US-based clients, translating operational data, challenges, and progress into clear, confident narratives during weekly client calls and executive reviews.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage assigned client accounts and serve as the primary point of contact.
- Present weekly operational status updates during client calls, translating metrics, risks, blockers, and progress into clear, client-friendly narratives.
- Serve as the primary liaison between internal operations teams and client stakeholders, ensuring nothing is lost in translation.
- Understand client priorities and translate them into clear internal actions.
- Coordinate with Operations and other support teams to drive agreed actions to completion.
- Demonstrate strong situational awareness during live client interactions by reading tone, anticipating concerns, and adapting messaging in real time.
- Track client requests, deadlines, risks, escalations, and agreed commitments.
- Review account performance and identify areas for improvement.
- Manage challenging conversations and drive issues through to resolution.
- Prepare account updates, performance reports, presentations, and executive reviews.
- Support client retention, relationship development, and account growth.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience in account management, client success, relationship management, service delivery, or a similar client-facing role.
- Proven experience managing international or US-based client accounts.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain complex operational issues clearly to non-technical stakeholders and build trust quickly.
- Sharp analytical thinking and strong situational awareness, with the ability to connect operational issues with client concerns and anticipate risks before they escalate.
- High emotional intelligence, with the ability to read client sentiment, manage challenging conversations, and navigate high-stakes discussions professionally.
- Strong narrative and presentation skills, with the confidence to lead weekly client reviews and translate operational data into clear, meaningful updates.
- Strong ownership, follow-up, judgment, and attention to detail.
- Comfortable working with reports, KPIs, SLAs, dashboards, and presentations.
- Aligned to US business hours to ensure real-time client engagement and responsiveness.
Familiarity with healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM), medical billing, or US healthcare operations is highly desirable but not mandatory.
Full-time
Colombo, Sri Lanka