Rodrigo Guesalaga

Explore the core knowledge and capabilities required for key account managers to deliver and sustain profitable relationships and drive growth with strategic customers. In a rapidly changing economic environment, the role of a key account manager is now more important than ever due to the value they provide to the business and the profitable growth they enable. The High-Performing Key Account Manager demonstrates what core competencies and skills a key account manager needs to succeed, such as how to develop long-lasting relationships, how to build trust with key customers and how to foster value-based sales solutions. This book also establishes what organizational support they require in order to create the right conditions for high-performance account management including guidance on how to lead and influence, build teams and enhance cross-functional collaboration. With real-world examples from leading companies such as Siemens, Caterpillar, Honeywell Group and CISCO Systems, this highly practical guide provides the strategies and tactics required to overcome common challenges, capitalize on emerging opportunities and enable key account managers to perform at the highest level.

Explore the core knowledge and capabilities required for key account managers to deliver and sustain profitable relationships and drive growth with strategic customers. In a rapidly changing economic environment, the role of a key account manager is now more important than ever due to the value they provide to the business and the profitable growth they enable. The High-Performing Key Account Manager demonstrates what core competencies and skills a key account manager needs to succeed, such as how to develop long-lasting relationships, how to build trust with key customers and how to foster value-based sales solutions. This book also establishes what organizational support they require in order to create the right conditions for high-performance account management including guidance on how to lead and influence, build teams and enhance cross-functional collaboration. With real-world examples from leading companies such as Siemens, Caterpillar, Honeywell Group and CISCO Systems, this highly practical guide provides the strategies and tactics required to overcome common challenges, capitalize on emerging opportunities and enable key account managers to perform at the highest level.

Implementing Key Account Management is a highly practical handbook that guides readers through the realities of rolling out a functional key account management programme. The book offers an integrated framework for key account management (KAM) that businesses can use to design or further develop strategic customer management programmes, enabling them to overcome the obstacles that organizations often face when rolling out their strategies. Bringing together the experiences of leading experts within this field, Implementing Key Account Management draws on two decades of research and best practice from Cranfield University School of Management, one of the foremost centres for researcher and thought leadership in KAM. Between them, the authors have designed and delivered programmes globally for clients such as Rolls-Royce, Unilever, Vodafone, The Economist and many more. Rigorously researched, well-grounded and practical, this book is - quite simply - the definitive, go-to resource for implementing key account management programmes.