Elevator & Escalator Key Account Manager
Indexed description
- Own overall relationship management for assigned strategic accounts, serving as the primary customer advocate and internal coordinator.
- Develop and execute account growth plans aligned with commercial objectives, including opportunity identification, forecasting, and pipeline visibility.
- Gain and maintain a deep understanding of customers’ business goals, challenges, and operating models to deliver tailored solutions.
- Lead cross‑functional coordination across sales, product, technical, logistics, marketing, and support teams to deliver integrated solutions and seamless customer experiences.
- Partner with Sales to align on customer commitments, ensuring clear, realistic expectations and transparent communication.
- Lead preparation and delivery of proposals, contracts, customer business reviews, and strategic presentations.
- Proactively manage customer expectations and risks by identifying issues early and coordinating timely resolution.
- Resolve customer complaints and escalations by engaging appropriate internal resources and driving solutions within agreed timeframes.
- Promote trust, credibility, and long‑term partnership through consistent follow‑through and communication.
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives by gathering customer feedback and identifying opportunities to improve processes, tools, and ways of working.
- Support adoption of digital tools and standardized processes that improve alignment between customer needs and internal execution.
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams on joint process improvement and co‑innovation opportunities.
- Monitor account performance, key metrics, forecasts, and ordering trends; summarize insights and changes for management and sales.
- Maintain accurate and timely records of account activity, communications, and performance data in CRM systems (Salesforce) and ERP tools (SAP).
- Prepare and distribute required internal and customer‑facing reports.
- Stay current on industry trends, market conditions, and competitor activity relevant to assigned accounts.
- Participate in trade shows, conferences, and customer events, scheduling meetings with existing and prospective contacts.
- Promote and facilitate customer training sessions, site visits, and product education as appropriate.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Sales, or a related field.
- Typically 3+ years of experience in account management, sales, or customer‑facing commercial roles.
- Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence across functions.
- Proven ability to analyze data, identify trends, and make data‑driven recommendations.
- Demonstrated experience with CRM systems (Salesforce), ERP tools (SAP), and Microsoft Office.
- Experience supporting process improvement, digital tool adoption, and change initiatives.
- Ability to travel as required.
- Relationship Building & Customer Focus
- Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving
- Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- Sales & Commercial Acumen
- Process Improvement
- Adaptability & Change Leadership
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