Key-Account Managers Training

Key-Account Managers Training teaches participants the relevant marketing, selling and relational skills needed today to grow and keep an Account for life. Managers of Key Accounts should be ever so vigilant not to “supply ammunitions to competitors” because in every forward looking company, its Key Accounts are “tangible external assets” and “partners for profit” to the Company.

For your assets to continue to yield maximally, it must be effectively and efficiently managed. If indeed “80%” of our current business comes from “20%” of our Key Accounts, they need to be strategically managed for better returns. If losing an account is “very painful”, that account must be a key account. We must, therefore, manage the account like an Asset.

Course Contents

DAY ONE

• Defining and Identifying Your Key Account
• Why a Key Account is Important
• Why a Key Account is Different
• What Can Make You a Successful Key-Account Manager:

- From the organisation’s perspective

- From personal perspective

- Skills and qualities

• A Key Account Manager as a Business Partner:

- Climbing the customer perception ladder.

DAY TWO

• Discovering Business Opportunities:

- Opportunities galore

- Sales information

- Prioritising the opportunities

• Key Account Development Plan:

- Setting Key Account objectives

- Key Account strategies:

- Tactics to block real or potential competitors

• Managing the Key Account Relationship:

- Increasing the relevant influence

- Understanding the decision making process

- Identifying the customer internal politics

- Contact and networking plan.

DAY THREE

• Solution Selling
• Communication Acumen:

- Presentation skills

- Negotiation skills

- Communications programme and functions

- Crafting the right messages

- Employing the appropriate tools

- Essentials of careful timing of communications

• Internal Capabilities and Support:

- Getting organised

- Working as a team

- Account meetings.

DAY FOUR

• Team Management

- Effective relationship management that grows market share for the 

   channels

- Strategic roles for distribution management

- Productive channel/dealer management

- Harmonizing the goals of the different dealers

- Doing more with less through partnering

- Building trust and commitment within inter-departmental teams.