Centurion, GP, South Africa
Key Accounts Manager
Job Description:
- Build and Maintain Client relationships.
- Assume full responsibility for the existing client accounts.
- Address and resolve issues/queries and report back to relevant parties.
- Constantly explore opportunities to expand and grow within the existing Client Base.
- Can engage in consultative selling and has a business solutions approach, including the ability to understand clients business needs.
- Prepare, manage presentations, proposals, and account plans.
- Meet and exceed defined and assigned sales targets.
- Effectively forecast, plan, implement and deploy projects for clients.
- Define and adhere to Prompt response time and methodologies to client queries.
- Define SLAs.
- Ensure adherence to agreed SLAs.
- Ensure Clients are at all times informed on all our clients Products and Services.
- Analyse and map the client process and equipment volume/type flow.
- Update and maintain customer contact detail: (Finance, Logistics, Purchasing, Scan users/web capturing users, production).
- Plan and facilitate Client education on new technologies and developments (products and services).
- Facilitate training on our clients system and scanner and new technologies/applications.
- Proactively identify issues that may influence a current client to review their affiliation.
- Proactively investigate rates/competitor activity/competitive product/s that may influence client affiliation and explore/introduce counter measures to ensure client retention and advise Senior management of potential issues that may impact a client/s decision to review their affiliation with our client.
Experience & Skills
- Matric / Grade 12.
- Relevant Qualification.
- 3-5 years experience in the Automotive / Logistics / FMCG / Courier Industry.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of all operational activities.
- Analyse the internal and external business environment and create workable solutions to address challenges and/or opportunities that will enhance business performance.
- Arrive at appropriate, logical, and effective decisions. Understand impact of decision making on all aspects of the business.
- Express oneself in a logical, clear, and understandable manner.
- Influence attitudes and opinions of others and gain agreement to proposals, plans and ideas, skilful at negotiating.
- Set high goals and standards of work for self and others. Meticulous, precise and thorough.
- Willing to take responsibility for own actions. Resilient. Able to recover quickly from setbacks.
- Display professional behaviour and language within a working environment. Cope and act with maturity and in a balanced manner when under pressure.
- Interpret, implement, and follow up on standards, procedures, and operating systems.
- Identify and organise all the resources needed to achieve the goals and targets.
- Effective at prioritising tasks and objectives.
- Set goals that are measurable and realistic, targets that are challenging yet attainable.
- Monitor performance against objectives and targets. Set step-by step action plans for each of the goals and follow up regularly.
Required Skills:
Automotive Operating Systems Purchasing Presentations Education Pressure Finance Business Sales Training Management