Key Account Manager
Salary: Competitive and based on experience
Location: East Midlands
Keywords: Customer Engagement, Strategic Planning, Account Growth, Supply Chain Process, Continuous Improvement
Our client is seeking a Key Account Manager to play a pivotal role in nurturing and developing customer relationships. This full-time position, based in the East Midlands, offers an attractive benefits package including a car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and a flexible benefits scheme. The successful candidate will work closely with the Operations Director and Contract General Manager to coordinate business functions to meet the agreed customer Joint Vision.
- Full-time position based in the East Midlands
- Attractive benefits package including car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus and more
- Opportunity to work closely with senior management and contribute to strategic planning
What you'll do:
As a Key Account Manager, your role will be instrumental in supporting and developing customer relationships. You will be responsible for implementing and sustaining the Customer Engagement System, which includes developing strategic account plans. Your understanding of customers' businesses at a strategic level will enable you to identify potential challenges and opportunities. You will lead initiatives that enhance service offerings to customers, thereby improving overall customer experience. Your leadership skills will be crucial in fostering key relationships within the account team. Additionally, you will coordinate all renewal activities to ensure successful retention of customer contracts.
- Implement and sustain the Customer Engagement System including development of the strategic account plan
- Support the customer to maintain competitive advantage through its operations and services
- Understand at a strategic level the customers business and its potential challenges and opportunities
- Identify initiatives that enhance the service offerings to the customer and maximise efficiency
- Lead and encourage the development of key relationships throughout the account team
- Coordinate all renewal activity to ensure successful retention of customer contracts at expected levels of profitability
What you bring:
The ideal Key Account Manager candidate brings a wealth of skills to our client's team. You are comfortable interacting at a senior level with high impact and credibility. Your experience in building and developing relationships across all levels and functions is invaluable. You possess strong strategic planning skills with a bias towards action and execution. Your track record demonstrates your ability to develop and deliver commercially successful account growth. Knowledge of end-to-end supply chain processes is desirable as is an understanding of continuous improvement or lean methodologies.
- A strong understanding of contract logistics agreements
- Ability to interact at senior level with high impact and credibility
- Experience in building and developing relationships across all levels and functions
- Strong strategic and planning skills with a bias towards action and execution
- Experience of developing and delivering commercially successful account growth
- Knowledge of End-to-End Supply Chain process ability to identify potential value streams (desirable)
- Understanding of the principles of continuous improvement or lean methodologies (desirable)
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