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?
- How to become an Account Manager
- Latest Account Manager jobs
- Top skills and experience for Account Managers
- Account Manager role reviews
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.
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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Find out how your salary compares with the average salary for Account Managers.Latest Account Manager jobs on Jobstreet
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World Networking Services Phils. Inc
Taguig City, Metro Manila
Full Time
Sales3d ago
National Sales Manager
Bounty Fresh Food, Inc.
Bonifacio Global City, Metro Manila
Full Time
Sales1d ago
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Account Manager employers on Jobstreet are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Account Management
Relationship Management
Key Accounts
Sales
Presentation Skills
Communication Skills
Relationship Building
Business Opportunity
Negotiation
Forecasting
New Business Development
CRM Software
Customer Accounts
Customer Service
Customer Oriented
Attentive Listening
Client Management
Lead Generation
Results Focused
Prospecting
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Latest Account Manager reviews
Jun 2023
Pressure
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Engineering
Experience5 – 9 years
Organisation sizeMedium (20-199 employees)
SpecialisationManufacturing, Transport & Logistics
The good thingsIf you can handle too much pressure.
The challengesToo much pressure in workplace
Too much to handle
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Jun 2023
You have to be flexible.
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Science
Experience10+ years
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationSales
The good thingsThe 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 challengesOne 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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