Arpedio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader? Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader? ? On September 15th, more than eighty Key Account Managers (KAM) assembled in Copenhagen and online for a hybrid event. The post Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader?

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This is exactly why Key Account Management is one of the most important aspects of the sales process and an integral facet of every single business. Being a successful account manager means more than knowing your customers, being proactive and quickly responding to queries. Key Account Management Top Tips.

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Account Manager Tips

MARCH 23, 2021

Portrait Software became a key account, and within 18 months, that partnership led to winning the larger Pitney Bowes business. Which is why key account management is so important. Is your solution a good fit and does it meet your clients’ needs compared to other suppliers? So let's find them. Solidarity.

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Account Manager Tips

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They don't need anything As a key account manager, if you've done your job right, there's no reason for them to keep in touch. Usually our clients are more important to us than we are to them Especially if you're not a major supplier. Rebalance your communication expectations to align with your value as a supplier.

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KAM With Passion

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

What is true in the private life is true in business as well, especially between a supplier and their customers. They need their suppliers to come to them with a “seek to serve” mentality. In order to understand their customer needs, in good like in bad times, suppliers need to run regular Business Reviews with them.

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Account Manager Tips

JUNE 29, 2021

Capture Strategy Tips A capture strategy identifies how to position organizations as the supplier of choice and convince clients to renew without considering alternatives. Your job as a key account manager is to deliver the kind of value that convinces your clients to stay in the loop. Reduce payment terms.

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Brightbridge Consulting

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Defining key account management. After much discussion The Association for Key Account Management (AKAM), of which Alistair Taylor, Managing Partner of Brightbridge is a main Board Member, agreed on the following definition of key Account management. Key characteristics of KAM.

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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As a supplier you need to adjust fast and build a foundation of trust. My old contact has been replaced First things first: find out what they want 10 steps to become a supplier of choice Check these out Quote of the week. Pre-existing relationships with competitors that may jeopardise your current status as a supplier.

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Jermaine Edwards

MAY 27, 2020

Some account managers and key account managers can get paralysed by over research. When studied and applied these will immediately help you as a customer leader or key account manager prepare to support, shape and solve real problems with and for your customers. Market Impact (I).

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 3, 2020

From the customer’s point of view there are 4 types of relationships that they have with their suppliers. STAGE 2 – THIRD PARTY SUPPLIER. We cover a lot of material on how to be a trusted advisor within our Online Sales Training and our Key Account Management Training courses. Order Taker?

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Account Manager Tips

MAY 1, 2021

As a key account manager, you not only need to keep your clients, you need to keep them profitable. Sales and key account management Too often, key account managers retreat from sales-focused conversations because it feels manipulative. Where do you sit in the spectrum of suppliers?

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KAMCast

JULY 8, 2021

What role does today’s account manager play then? How do the problem solvers of the 90s and noughties transition from the consultative selling world of the efficient supplier, to the transformational space of the effective business partner ? That, my friend is the question.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Of all the questions we receive at Gartner’s Sales practice, some of the toughest and most frequent revolve around key account management. “ How do we build a successful key account management program? ”. “ How do find effective key account managers (KAMs)? ”. “ If not, what’s the point?

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Mercuri International

MAY 21, 2021

So, in short, key accounts matter. Broadly speaking, Key Account Managers will employ a range of skills which are also applicable to sales in general, but it is the focus that is the central difference. Interestingly, key accounts might not be mostly about sales. The customers who already know you….

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Account Manager Tips

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It covers question types, styles, and specific things to ask about your client's organisation, targets, industry, supplier management, and what they think of you. The world's most amazing community of key account manager. Worth a click + 45 Best Questions to Ask Your Client to Get to Know Them. The KAM Club.

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Account Manager Tips

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It covers question types, styles, and specific things to ask about your client's organisation, targets, industry, supplier management, and what they think of you. The world's most amazing community of key account manager. Worth a click + 45 Best Questions to Ask Your Client to Get to Know Them. The KAM Club.

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Account Manager Tips

JULY 9, 2020

For example don't say "meet with key stakeholders" when the job description has identified who those stakeholders are and you can say "meet with Product Management and Technical" instead. Here's the job description for a Senior Key Account Manager at Amazon , advertised in July 2020. Product adoption goals.

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Account Manager Tips

JULY 6, 2022

Challenge traditional supplier-customer relationships - build partnerships and contribute resources through relationships. Learn more about the world's most amazing community of key account managers. You and your client become co-collaborators, co-producers and co-benefactors of value. Clarify roles and tasks.

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Brightbridge Consulting

AUGUST 14, 2019

Critical Success Factors for Key Account Management. A Webinar Led by Alistair Taylor – Managing Partner at Brightbridge, with Diana Woodburn, Chairperson of the Association for Key Account Management. Now of course teamwork in key account management can be complicated.

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QYMATIX

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Key Account Managers had to prepare a visit to a potential client thoroughly. Key Account Managers can now call clients in seconds – even to meet them virtually thanks to video and webinars. Today, nobody signs a contract without proper research about a potential supplier.

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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Is there anything worse a key account manager has to do than tell clients about a price increase? or make some phone calls to alternative suppliers. You're between a rock and hard place. Your company says to get the price rise across the line while your clients refuse to accept. Now what? . Idea in brief.

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Jermaine Edwards

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In 2016 I wrote a post on the five foundation steps for stakeholder management success in key account management, that was well received and guided lots of leaders. Think about all of those people who have an interest in the outcome of your project or idea, who have power or influence over it and are affected by it.

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Brightbridge Consulting

JANUARY 31, 2020

Two of a kind – Key account management and managing key accounts? One of perspectives we’ve identified as being essential for success is the notion that key account management is not the same as managing key accounts. Portfolio management.

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Brightbridge Consulting

JUNE 12, 2019

Key Account Management: Skills Development: Flint Group. Group workshops and individual coaching for experienced senior key account leaders, commercial and technical managers. One of the largest suppliers to the printing and packaging industry world-wide, 2017 revenues were €2.2bn.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 29, 2013

But our studies have shown that there is one main component in a supplier/client relationship that can go a long way in developing future sales and encouraging that close relationship that can make or break the contact. Strategic directions help both companies invest in key areas for future development.

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Clarity Engagement Solutions

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Providers, payers and suppliers, also a distribution supply chain and the patients themselves. Let’s take the ecosystem definition as an example and extend it: ‘’A healthcare customer ecosystem is an interconnected set of entities and organizations each playing a role in providing healthcare to a geographic-specific patient population.’’.

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Account Manager Tips

AUGUST 9, 2022

The buyer will get help from a different supplier (i.e. Details at the end of this page ) The KAM CLUB You’re only seconds away from the essential training, advice and support you need for an exceptional career in key account management. Through a series of conversations, each looks at the problem and how to solve it.

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Clarity Engagement Solutions

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Providers, payers and suppliers, also a distribution supply chain and the patients themselves. Let’s take the ecosystem definition as an example and extend it: ‘’A healthcare customer ecosystem is an interconnected set of entities and organizations each playing a role in providing healthcare to a geographic-specific patient population.’’.

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Supply Chain Healthcare Suppliers Stakeholders 91

QYMATIX

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Key Account Managers had to prepare a visit to a potential client thoroughly. Key Account Managers can now call clients in seconds – even to meet them virtually thanks to video and webinars. Today, nobody signs a contract without proper research about a potential supplier.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

When a client is committed to the relationship, they are more likely to see you as a partner than as a supplier. Then take a look at our Key Account Management Training Course. Managing Director. 4) Relationship Commitment. This relationship level can make a huge difference in they view you now and in the future.

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Cranfield Executive Development

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

How suppliers can design negotiation processes for creating and capturing value.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 9, 2018

Hassane’s mission is to establish Cypress as the global supplier of choice for innovative companies in high-growth markets. Joining us for today’s show is Hassane El-Khoury, the CEO of Cypress, the leader of the semiconductor industry. Cypress is leading the industry.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2023

Business Development Technical sales managers often manage the business relationship between a company and its suppliers, including managing the technical order processing and delivery processes. Also, they facilitate new business opportunities for a company by helping develop new supplier partnerships.

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Jermaine Edwards

APRIL 3, 2020

Experienced thinker/strategist* Negotiator* Sponsor* (typically an executive) Legal Data analyser or risk manager* Technical Enforcer Change Manager* Relationship Manager(s) (ideally the one serving the customer unless they’re part of the problem)* Partners/suppliers. You don’t need to have all these roles on your team.

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Cranfield Executive Development

AUGUST 22, 2023

How can suppliers design negotiation processes for better creating and capturing value?

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Brightbridge Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2021

We are supporting the development of various activities through The Association for Key Account Management and Technological University Dublin, supported by Pfizer. A variety of coaching and training activities are in occurring with a reengagement with Warwick Business School in September and the Autumn.

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Arpedio

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This means that now more than ever before, sales representatives and key account managers need to create a smooth customer experience to achieve consensus within the decision-making group. We asked Jeppe Tølløse, our Account Manager and Private Equity responsible on some tips.

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