You will play a vital role in helping our company build and maintain long-lasting relationships with our existing client base at Board and senior management level. You will:
You will show clients the value they can benefit from through investing in solutions that typically comprise of products and services in our core portfolio. Where a solution or part of a solution comprises of products and or services that do not form part of our core portfolio, you will present these additional products and or services to management, so that the business can assess their merits and suitability.
As Key Account Manager, your day-to-day job involves managing each of our clients' account with our business. Through regular contact via telephone, email, Teams based meetings, and on-site meetings, you will help our clients feel our company can meet and exceed their needs, identifying opportunities, proposing solutions, and closing new business from these existing clients. You will need to meet agreed sales targets.
Many of our clients have partnered with us for many years; we have extremely low client churn. As well as the technical team who provide IT support, systems management, and project delivery to our clients, as Key Account Manager, you will play a key part in maintaining this position. You'll serve as the overall point of contact in all matters between our business and our clients' businesses. You will have to oversee and take part in all negotiations and support contract discussions including their renewal.
You will ensure the CRM system is up to date. You will track, analyse and forecast account metrics in terms of monthly sales results and annual ROI. You will maintain a sales pipeline within our CRM system tracking potential revenue and gross margin opportunities by client and forecast month. You will stay updated with the latest trends and technologies that can help our clients' businesses, to help you make excellent recommendations to our clients. You should have a goal-orientated mindset, able to divide your goals and tasks into smaller targets and individual goals that you can easily achieve. You will also work with our company chairman and technical director as a team to strategise and develop a plan to help you achieve your objectives and targets.
In your role, you are likely to learn about and have shared with you, sensitive and or confidential information relating to our business and that of our clients. You are required to keep this information from our competitors and other third-parties, and establish trust between you, our business and our clients.
This is a full-time role where you will work remotely from home. You will need to attend meetings with management, the technical director, and of course our clients. These may be in-person or via Teams for example. You may occasionally need to meet clients or attend meetings outside of normal working hours.
You will require a full UK driving license.
The ideal Key Account Manager should have the following qualities:
Communication: this role demands excellent verbal and written communication skills - and building and maintaining long-term relationships based on trust and transparency.
Active listener: where you pay full attention when people are speaking to you, so that you can thoroughly understand the message before responding appropriately. You should be able to effectively interpret both verbal and nonverbal signs, including tone of voice, body language and eye movements to better understand the intent of the speaker before replying.
Understands clients' needs: having gained our clients' trust, you will have an in-depth understanding of their businesses. You should know aspects that make our clients' businesses unique, including their history, and customers; their current IT infrastructure and systems; their business challenges, objectives and goals; and be able to find and present solutions aligned to their business needs.
Commercial awareness: you will need to have a good knowledge of business and commerce generally, so that you can relate to our clients at Board level, and align solutions to their business needs.
Knowledge of our products and services: You will possess and maintain a comprehensive knowledge of our products and services that form the solutions presented to clients. You will need to be able to express this knowledge confidently when presenting solutions to clients - both verbally and in writing - aligning business benefits to clients' businesses.
Decisive: able to quickly make educated and high-quality decisions, even under pressure - for example, in the event of handling a client complaint that has been escalated to you, requiring a quick but appropriate fix and or response.
Organisation skills: this is a busy role servicing the needs of multiple clients - you will need to be able to organise yourself well.
Time management: since time is a valuable asset when it comes to making sales, it is important to know how to manage time well. You will be an effective planner, prioritise tasks, be able to say no, able to delegate less critical tasks, and be self-disciplined.
Take ownership: you will have overall responsibility for all matters between our business and our clients' businesses.
Negotiation: you should be able to negotiate with clients and suppliers to understand if you can get a good deal. To succeed in negotiations, you need to think creatively, understand the needs of others and prioritise the goals of the potential contract.
Public speaking: it is important that you know how to create and deliver an impactful sales pitch during client meetings.
Build and maintain customer loyalty: ensuring clients have positive experiences, through ensuring solutions are aligned to addressing clients' business needs, delivered on time, within budget, and 'deliver what it says on the tin'.
Persistence: able to pursue a sale to a conclusion, and able to mentally overcome the difficulties of failing to close a sale.
"We're dedicated to building a people-orientated culture where our team can learn, develop, and grow - to be the best version of themselves. We are looking for A-Players with drive and integrity, that treat every day as a school day, and strive for customer service excellence in an environment where the Client is King."
Ideally, you are currently employed as a Key Account Manager or similar role at a Managed Service Provider or IT reseller, having worked there for at least two years. Your combined current and past employment in similar roles totals 5+ years.
You are likely to possess product knowledge of Office 365, Windows Server, Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams - and your security product knowledge is likely to include firewalls, data security, web security, email security, cyber essentials, and corporate anti-virus.
You will possess excellent verbal and written communication skills - and be experienced in building and maintaining long-term relationships based on trust and transparency. You will be an active listener, seek an in-depth understanding of a client's business, have a good knowledge of business and commerce, possess and maintain a comprehensive knowledge of products and services, express this knowledge confidently when presenting solutions, quickly make educated and high-quality decisions even under pressure, organise yourself well, manage your time, have a take ownership mentality, negotiate with clients and suppliers, create and deliver an impactful sales pitch during client meetings, build and maintain customer loyalty, pursue a sale to a conclusion, and able to mentally overcome the difficulties of failing to close a sale.
You will appreciate being able to work from your home. Being self-motivated, driven and focused, and able to meet and exceed your targets, you prefer to function without constant supervision. You are committed to on-going training and your personal development.
Your values are likely to include: integrity, honesty, accountability, self-improvement, high quality work, and customer service excellence.
You will want to work in an environment where 'The client is king', where the team strives to deliver customer service excellence; and has a people-oriented culture, where everyone in the business can relate to each other and feel they are treated fairly; where leaders listen and active conversations take place - where everyone feels they are valued and see that they are a vital 'cog' in the wheel that drives the business forward.
Combined with being able to work from home, you will value our flexible attitude to your working hours - you may need to pick up your children from school, attend your children's sports day, or just simply need to walk your dog. We are focused on results, not the hours you work.
We have quarterly social events enabling you to meet the full team, and we will provide you the equipment and training to enable you to maximise your productivity in your home office.
Outside of work, perhaps you play or watch sport, are looking for that next adrenaline based adventure, or like travelling to new places and exploring new cultures.
Learning, developing, growing – there’s a reason these three words go together. You can't have one without the other, they depend on each other.
You will relish the opportunity being mentored and held accountable by your manager, who wants to help you to become the best version of yourself, and help you achieve your own personal goals.
Our chairman places a high value on coaching. Your growth capacity is directly linked to your openness to learning. Every day is a school day. The chairman will be coaching and mentoring those that report into him, including this role.
It is essential that you have good knowledge of using productivity software including Word, Excel and Outlook. It is desirable that you have good knowledge of using SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams.
Our growth strategy is based around 'Making our Client King' - that delivering better customer service than our competitors makes us successful.
Communication makes all the difference: regular communication keeps stress levels down - people need to know what is happening and their expectations need to be managed.
We celebrate individual and team successes.
We are developing a team of 'A Players', ensuring we attract the very best talent.
It is better to make a wrong decision and learn from it, than make no decision at all.
We strive to work smarter, not harder. This requires continuous learning and development.
We are results driven, not focused on hours worked.
We are building a culture of flexibility, learning, and belonging.
Our purpose is to align technology to our clients' business needs, helping and supporting our clients achieve their own purpose.
We do this using our ‘business first, technology second approach’, and delivering first-class client-focused technical support and project delivery.
We are a successful business with over 23 years history.
Our relationships with clients are built at the highest levels. We have extremely low client churn. We have clients that have been with us since the beginning.
As a small company looking to continue our growth, there are promotion opportunities, all the way to the top.
Given that Dave as founder of Tek-nology Solutions came from a technical background, it will be no surprise to you that our business has a first class reputation for technical ability and that we have an excellent reputation with regards to our customer service. Dave now wants to take the business to the next level, and is driving a new growth programme throughout the business.
At the heart of Dave's vision is the mantra 'The Client is King'. While we have an excellent customer service reputation, we know we can do better. We are using tools such as the Net Promoter Score to help us achieve this vision - we are continuously seeking constructive feedback to help us identify where we can do better - helping us direct our efforts to the right areas. We are creating additional roles and undertaking a recruitment programme throughout 2022.
We have a loyal team including some staff that have been with us for over a decade. Again, while we get a lot right, we know we can do better. We are building a people-orientated culture, one of flexibility, learning, and belonging. We are results driven, not focused on hours worked. We celebrate individual and team successes.
