Key Account Manager - Salem, India - Michelin

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    Client :

    Michelin TyresPosition :

    Key Account ManagerExperience: 5 to 6yearsLocation:
    Salem and Vijayawada

    Job description


    AM:

    MISSION :
    Develop his business portfolio (geographical or segmentation, etc) through the sales of offers (product/service/solution) to Customer (Direct, Indirect, Professional End User, Dealer)


    KEY EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
    Account Management

    • Gathers information from the customer to understand their needs and detailed requirements.
    • Oversees monitoring of relationships including lessons learned and appropriate feedback (close the loop).
    • Develops/generates new leads by monitoring trends, conducting research, identifying opportunities, cold calling and making appointments.
    • Educates and develops rapport with internal and external customers, promoting partnerships, seeking feedback and proactively addressing customer needs and requests.
    • Expands customer buying centers and use cases, while leading the customer account planning cycle and ensuring that all customer needs and expectations are met.
    • Develops communication and training programs to inform sales and marketing teams of new product launches and changes in organizational strategy.
    • Develops processes and procedures to optimize account management efforts and ensure sales goals are achieved.
    • To innovate different way of selling to a customer as to engage him maximum with existing domain of solutions of products.
    • Responsible for end to end solution to customer sales to payment collection.
    • Manage time well & respond with reporting to line manager in defined time.
    • Plan his field working in cost effective manner.

    Distribution channel:

    • Identify,Analyze, Lead & support distribution network development
    • To steer channel sales force, defining KPI for the same & assessing the performance on defined frequency, providing them way forward to achieve the defined goals
    • To Capture market demand & forecast for the complete RT business
    • Follow up identified actions & drive sales development activity in identified segments
    • Risk assessment of the business periphery & propose/Identify action to streamline the way forward
    • Training needs for the channel to be identified & proposed
    • Keep an eye of the market happening & update the line manager for the necessary actions
    To follow & ensure the SOP defined to sell each segment of products & be an ambassador of that.Opportunity Management


    • Develops sales action plans for targeting leads, converting them into sales.
    • Manages own territory by allocating time and resources.
    • Develops and maintains mid-term territory plans.
    • Gathers and disseminates competitor market intelligence.
    • Maintains and updates customer target list.
    • Participates in strategic lead generation and development of target markets.
    • Identifies new, profitable business potential in specific markets.
    • Monitors partnership arrangements to ensure that the objectives of the partnership remain on target.
    • Influences various partnerships to meet multiple goals.
    • Analyzes complex information, identifies patterns and implications; understands that the root cause of an issue may initially appear to be unrelated to the issue. Product, Service & Industry Knowledge
    • Pitches own organization against competition in generic terms.
    • Identifies related industries that may have an impact on own industry
    • Matches product knowledge to the implicit needs of the customer.
    • Troubleshoots product related problems.
    Negotiating


    • Reaches mutually acceptable solutions in straightforward, formal negotiations with internal or external stakeholders (e.g., negotiates with external contractors on straightforward service delivery; negotiates with other departments on cost sharing).
    • Selects an approach to negotiation based on an understanding of each party's interests and priorities. Customer Value Management
    • Develops and executes channel and customer promotions/programs that leverage national brand ideas/thinking and consumer insights to drive increased consumer preference and customer activity.
    • Works with sales strategy and planning partners to ensure forecast accuracy, maximization of opportunities and development of plans to deliver against organization's objectives.
    • Identifies business opportunities based on knowledge of clients, markets, products and services.
    • Coordinates planning activities with other functions and stakeholders within the organization.

    To prove value to customer:

    • Service contracts with the customer to improve the product performance & prove the value of premium.
    • To generate revenue with maximizing organization & service partner revenue with customer satisfaction.
    Propose plan different method to service & retain customer.