Account Manager
Oversee existing client accounts to foster long-term sales relationships.
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What's it like to be an Account Manager?
Account Managers are found in a wide variety of industries. They typically work with departments such as sales, marketing, and customer service to ensure that a company identifies and meets client needs. These sales professionals usually supervise Account Executives. While the latter focuses on gaining new clients, Account Managers are responsible for maintaining client-company relationships. They do this by making sure that sales goals are being met, monitoring other departments, and resolving complex client issues.
Tasks and duties
- Cultivating client satisfaction and loyalty.
- Communicating with clients to assess and meet their needs.
- Creating projects with sales and marketing departments according to client briefs.
- Presenting project proposals to senior managers and clients.
- Giving instructions to the project team, monitoring progress, and reporting to clients.
- Motivating staff to meet goals and providing solutions to issues.
- Monitoring all client-related processes.
Account Manager is a leadership role that requires skills in project management, business strategy, contract negotiation, and budget planning. They analyze industry trends and customer data to find ways to better serve clients, identify sales opportunities with current customers, and understand their clients’ brand to fulfill their business objectives.
How to become an Account Manager
This mid-level role requires company and customer expertise, strong communication skills, strategic thinking, and negotiation skills. Completing a degree may be beneficial.
- Finish a four-year course. While some hirers may not specify a specific degree, others may prefer candidates to have an educational background in sales, marketing, business, or a related field. Other employers may prefer graduates with a background in their specific industry such as IT, advertising or engineering.
- Gain at least two years of work experience. You may start in an entry-level role in sales or marketing, working your way up to Account Executive and, eventually, to Account Manager.
- Consider completing an advanced degree to broaden your career opportunities. Examples of relevant masters degrees include marketing communications, science in marketing and marketing management.
- After gaining extensive experience, you can advance to more senior roles. This could be Account Director, which involves handling Account Managers, or Regional or National Sales Manager, Sales Director, or Vice President of Sales.
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Latest Account Manager reviews
Jun 2023
Reviewer's Qualification
Bachelor of Engineering
Experience
5 – 9 years
Organisation size
Medium (20-199 employees)
The good things
If you can handle too much pressure.
The challenges
Too much pressure in workplace
Too much to handle
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Jun 2023
Reviewer's Qualification
Bachelor of Science
Experience
10+ years
Organisation size
Large (200+ employees)
The good things
The best thing about my work is that I help the hirers find the right candidates for their job vacancies and that way I am also helping our jobseekers find their dream jobs.
The challenges
One of the challenges is the adhoc task or those admin task that would take so much of my time, instead of focusing on Sales only.
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