Key Account Manager

SUMMARY:
We’re looking for a Key Account Managers in Mokopane, Rustenburg and Kuruman to develop and manage profitable, long-term relationships with designated key customers, ensuring the alignment of customer interactions with the company’s business strategy & objectives strategically & tactically. This role involves orchestrating the interaction between the company and its key accounts to maximize business opportunities, enhance customer satisfaction, and achieve superior returns on investment. The Key Account Manager acts as the primary liaison, coordinating internal resources, managing projects, and leading initiatives that deliver tailored solutions and value to both the organization and its strategic customers. Through effective relationship management, negotiation, and leadership competencies, the Key Account Manager plays a crucial role in driving the company's growth, maintaining its
competitive edge, and ensuring the sustainability of its key customer partnerships.

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities:

Understanding of Business and Customer

• Develop a deep understanding of both the company's and the customer's operations, divisions, challenges, and market position.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the company's and customer's products, solutions, services, and strategies.
• Leverage insights into the company's and customer's organizational structures (key people) to foster efficient decision-making and operations.
• Ensuring that all stakeholders have the necessary tools and equipment to complete all tasks/projects as required by management.
• Ensure all safety packs and contractor packs are up to date and have the relevant signatures.

• Master the company's and customer's systems, processes, and value chains to optimize cooperation and value creation.
• Ensure compliance with internal and customer-related processes and strategies & tactics.
• Utilize knowledge of both organizations' systems to enhance solution service delivery and customer satisfaction.

• Engage in Strategic & Tactical planning with a forward-looking perspective, incorporating both internal and external factors affecting the business and customer relationship.
• Identify and exploit opportunities for value creation, facilitating workshops (product training), and events and managing projects to develop and deliver value propositions.
• Measure and monitor the impact of delivered value, adjusting strategies & tactical plans as necessary to meet expectations and goals.

• Prepare comprehensive Strategic & Tactical account plans, outlining objectives, actions, resources, and metrics for at least the next year to three years.
• Secure internal (product specialist) and external (Original Equipment Manufacturer) resources, inventory, and approvals necessary for plan execution.
• Align actions with Strategic & Tactical plans, ensuring timely execution and monitoring progress through established metrics. (Weekly PDRI meetings)
• Adapt and respond to performance metrics, learning from experiences to improve future actions. Maintain and improve safety requirements.

• Build and maintain a detailed database of key contacts within the
• customer organization, understanding their roles, concerns, and decision making processes. (In the company CRM system)
• Effectively communicate the company's strategy and value propositions to internal stakeholders and the customer.
• Foster strong relationships with counterparts in the customer
• organization, facilitating collaboration and mutual support.

• Maintain awareness of the company's entire product, solutions, and service range, including offerings from other business units. i.e., EPCM
• Understand the significance of the company's products, solutions and services in the customer's processes and offerings, articulating key features, benefits, and limitations.
• Stay updated with new products, solutions and service introductions, modifications, and limitations (e.g. End of life cycle, product specifications).

• Have knowledge of competitors’ offerings, and an understanding of their strengths, weaknesses, and positioning.
• Keep abreast of competitor prices and promotional activities and what we can do better or areas of improvement.

• Identify areas within the customer's operations where the company's expertise can add value.
• Develop new business within existing accounts and identify potential new key accounts. (the customer within the customer).
• Understand and influence the customer's buying process, including tendering and contracting procedures.
• Negotiation Skills
• Analyze negotiation situations, prepare Strategic & Tactically, and engage in negotiations with a win-win objective.
• Understand and apply financial concepts in negotiations, recognizing the financial impact of decisions. (POV)

• Develop business cases and understand the financial implications of key account management decisions.
• Analyze customer profitability, manage pricing strategies effectively, and work to optimize costs. Execution and Relationship Management
• Track and expand the range of products, solutions and services bought by the customer.
• Build and leverage relationships within the customer's organization to uncover new opportunities and facilitate business development.

• Prepare for sales opportunities, manage sales meetings effectively, and follow up on commitments.
• Utilize financial insights to inform pricing and discount strategies, ensuring alignment with customer profitability goals.

• Strategic & Tactically develop and manage profitable relationships with key customers, aligning activities with the customer's potential for superior returns.
• Prioritize key customers based on their attractiveness and potential for profit, maintaining relationships across various levels of the customer's organization.
• Manage the process of interaction between the company and key customers, ensuring consistent communications and the full capture of opportunities. Relationship Development
• Adopt a purposeful approach to relationship building, recognizing, and working within valid relationship constraints.
• Develop relationships at all appropriate levels within the customer's organization, addressing personal professional issues and needs of contacts to enhance relationships. Internal Collaboration and Influence
• Build and maintain internal relationships across the organization,
• identifying key allies and senior managers to support key account objectives.
• Encourage cross-functional collaboration, ensuring other departments understand and contribute to the benefits delivered to key customers.

• Demonstrate personal integrity, reliability, and adherence to organizational values.
• Maintain confidentiality and operate effectively amidst uncertainty and complexity, ensuring clear responsibilities and accountabilities within the internal key account team.
• Effective Collaboration and Networking
• Facilitate effective collaboration on projects with key accounts, identifying and protecting organizational assets and capabilities

• Facilitate effective collaboration on projects with key accounts, identifying and protecting organizational assets and capabilities.