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Characteristics of best practice key account managers

There is no single set of characteristics that identify outstanding key account managers, says Tyrone Morris – the best results come from matching customers with the right key account manager for that account. He/she may not perform as well with another key account, nor do the best sales managers necessarily make good key account managers. Working with…

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Sharing customer knowledge – a total organisational approach

This webinar was hosted by Jeremy Campbell Executive Director, Marketing and Business Development, EMCOR Group UK and Steven Dolan UK Key Account Director, EMCOR Group UK. How do you get a Facilities Management biased business to focus on customers and customer value when the main thrust of the business is on providing services? How do you get any business…

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Competencies

Account management task roles & skills: does it differ between large and small businesses?

In Lugano presenters and breakout discussion groups agreed that size wasn’t necessarily a crucial factor – SMEs often have an appropriate instinctive approach to key customers, but they may miss formalising some elements that would help KAM work better if they were clearer. Big companies are under more pressure to standardise initiatives because there are so many…

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Defining a KAM training path

This article argues that training paths for key account managers should depend on the development stage of the organisation’s KAM initiative: simple and focused in companies starting a KAM initiative, but further enriched for companies with an established KAM programme. Either way, an ideal start point is an individual KAM Competencies Reference Framework and an…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

AKAM technical workshop – Negotiation

Have you ever emerged from a negotiation wondering how and why did it all go wrong? It’s not just selling negotiations that can be brutal – securing enough resources internally or the right decisions for the customer can be just as difficult. Even in close KAM relationships and great KAM programmes, negotiation plays a critical part. At…

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What makes a high performing key account manager?

High-performing Key Account Managers How do you get to be Key Account Manager of the Year? Becoming Key Account Manager the Year can be a great boost to your confidence and your career. This webinar gives clear guidelines on the kind of performance that would make you a winner and how to convey that to…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

Driving hyper growth – 1st AKAM Annual Conference

Conor O’Maley, Regional VP SMB at SalesForce in Ireland, presented the framework of processes, tools and behaviours used to manage their sales team. Their Account Management is based on combining a high focus on sales and a good customer experience to generate the customer’s loyalty. He focused on sales management and sales efficiency which, although they are…

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Integrating Functions Through KAM

This webinar will explore your role as a relationship manager in the supply chain. You need to be an orchestrator of your company’s functions to meet the range of customer demands that add value to their business! That may involve your supply chain operations, procurement, returns management, accounting – even third parties. Simon Templar…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

The power of KAM as a change agent – 2nd Annual AKAM Conference

Karim Bennaziz Houmane, Global Head of Commercial Cards Sales, BNPParibas highlighted critical issues that have developed in KAM – deterioration of the relationship mode back to a transactional mode, circular conversations or the ‘continuous crisis’ mode and reduction of the KAM to problem solver. He introduced the idea of ‘double loop learning’ as a route to more…

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Value creation and value propositions – 3rd Annual AKAM Conference

Everyone talks about Value in KAM but, according to Diana Woodburn, it is a misunderstood, misused and abused term. Value should appear explicitly in strategic key account plans, where the value to supplier and customer should be perfectly clear and differentiated – which, in practice, it rarely is. Suppliers have multiple sources of value available to them through…

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