Key Account Manager

3 Years

Ahmedabad

Full-Time

INR 600000 - 650000

Responsible for managing and growing strategic/key customer accounts by developing strong customer relationships, increasing business opportunities, achieving sales targets, and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction and retention.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Key Account Management
• Manage and develop relationships with key customers, strategic accounts, and large industrial clients.
• Understand customer requirements, business priorities, procurement processes, and upcoming projects.
• Act as the primary point of contact for assigned key accounts.
• Develop account-wise business plans and strategies for revenue growth.
• Sales & Business Development
• Achieve assigned sales, revenue, margin, and business growth targets.
• Identify new business opportunities within existing accounts and develop new customer accounts.
• Drive cross-selling and up-selling of products and services.
• Develop new applications, projects, and product categories within existing accounts.
• Generate and convert leads, enquiries, RFQs, and business opportunities into orders.
• Customer Relationship Management
• Build strong relationships with key decision-makers, purchase teams, technical teams, plant heads, and senior management.
• Conduct regular customer meetings and business reviews.
• Understand customer pain points and provide commercially and technically suitable solutions.
• Maintain high customer engagement and improve customer retention.
• Strategic Account Planning
• Prepare account-wise growth plans, opportunity pipelines, and sales forecasts.
• Map key stakeholders and decision-makers within strategic accounts.
• Identify upcoming CAPEX, MRO, projects, expansion, and maintenance requirements.
• Monitor competitor activities, pricing, market trends, and customer buying patterns.
• Commercial & Negotiation Management
• Prepare and submit quotations, commercial proposals, and rate contracts.
• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, delivery schedules, and commercial conditions.
• Coordinate with internal teams to ensure competitive and profitable quotations.
• Track margins and ensure business is aligned with company commercial objectives.
• Order & Execution Management
• Coordinate with sales coordination, procurement, logistics, finance, and operations teams for smooth order execution.
• Monitor order status, delivery commitments, material availability, and customer requirements.
• Resolve delivery, quality, documentation, and commercial issues.
• Ensure timely closure of customer complaints and escalations.
• Collections & Credit Management
• Monitor account receivables and outstanding payments.
• Coordinate with customers and internal finance teams for timely payment realization.
• Follow up on overdue invoices and resolve payment-related discrepancies.
• Ensure business is conducted within approved credit limits and payment terms.
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Work closely with Product, Procurement, Finance, Logistics, Operations, and Technical teams.
• Coordinate with manufacturers/principals for product availability, pricing, technical support, and authorization.
• Ensure seamless communication between customers and internal stakeholders.
• Market & Competitor Intelligence
• Track market pricing, competitor activities, new products, and customer trends.
• Identify emerging business opportunities and potential threats.
• Provide market feedback and strategic inputs to management.
• Reporting & Performance Management
• Maintain accurate sales pipelines, forecasts, account plans, and opportunity reports.
• Track monthly, quarterly, and annual sales performance.
• Review account profitability, business growth, and customer-wise performance.
• Present key account performance and growth plans to senior management
  
  

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