Key Account Manager
JAPAN Sales
Job description
You will be part of our Sales + Marketing team, adding your consultative selling expertise + skills to the delivery of Business Growth.
Your Role
WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING ON A DAILY BASIS? Your primary objective will be to develop existing or new business by coordinating all business development actions + triggering opportunities within your specified vertical for larger accounts at a country level. You will do this by working with a variety of internal + external stakeholders, ensuring compliance with our current commercial policy while focusing on the following key objectives. To directly manage Key Account(s), in accordance with agreed targets, goals and based on company guidelines, eliciting customer needs and selling KN offer portfolio. To ensure understanding of all customer organizations and decision making processes. To negotiate rates with customers in alignment with the business units (BU) and ensure rate sheets are documented and maintained as needed by the BU’s To ensure compliance with the company's sales management processes and systems and ensures correct and timely updates in the customer relationship system (CRM) To monitor monthly performance against set targets, and ensure that immediate actions are taken in case of deviations (incl. timely / accurate reporting). To ensure that account plan(s) are in place based on the Key Account Planning Process and template, and are signed off by the respective sales manager. To effectively hand over and transition new business into operations to ensure that customer requirements and the company's commitments are met. To conduct regular and structured review sessions with assigned customers including; process for continuous improvement and innovation, review of customer strategy and priorities as well as operational excellence delivery.Your Responsibilities
WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING ON A DAILY BASIS?Your primary objective will be to develop existing or new business by coordinating all business development actions + triggering opportunities within your specified vertical for larger accounts at a country level. You will do this by working with a variety of internal + external stakeholders, ensuring compliance with our current commercial policy while focusing on the following key objectives.
To directly manage Key Account(s), in accordance with agreed targets, goals and based on company guidelines, eliciting customer needs and selling KN offer portfolio.
To ensure understanding of all customer organizations and decision making processes.
To negotiate rates with customers in alignment with the business units (BU) and ensure rate sheets are documented and maintained as needed by the BU’s
To ensure compliance with the company's sales management processes and systems and ensures correct and timely updates in the customer relationship system (CRM)
To monitor monthly performance against set targets, and ensure that immediate actions are taken in case of deviations (incl. timely / accurate reporting).
To ensure that account plan(s) are in place based on the Key Account Planning Process and template, and are signed off by the respective sales manager.
To effectively hand over and transition new business into operations to ensure that customer requirements and the company's commitments are met.
To conduct regular and structured review sessions with assigned customers including; process for continuous improvement and innovation, review of customer strategy and priorities as well as operational excellence delivery.